This year were doing Miles for Marrow differently! A competition between Southampton Uni Societies and City Clubs, with 3 leader boards of who can raise the most, run the most and swab the most.

Each team are challenged to do sponsored runs, walks, cycles (or any other exercise) throughout April, to raise money and awareness for the lifesaving work Anthony Nolan does. This year we plan to travel a collective distance of 250 miles, representing the 25 years that Marrow has been running.

Every 14 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer. For someone with blood cancer, a stem cell transplant could be their last chance of survival. At Anthony Nolan, we match incredible people willing to donate their stem cells, to people with blood cancer who are in desperate need of a lifesaving transplant.

It costs £40 to add each potential lifesaver to the stem cell register. Every penny and every pound that Southampton Marrow raises will help to continue saving the lives of people with blood cancer.

Marrow now recruit one in four people who go on to donate stem cells, which means hundreds of lives are potentially saved by Marrow's incredible work.

Anthony Nolan is saving lives right now. Three lives a day, in fact. But we can’t do it without you. Without you, there is no cure.