Impact and achievements
We Are Donors prides ourselves on not only our impact in schools and universities across the country but also being at the forefront for educational strategies regarding blood and organ donation.
See below for how We Are Donors is part of leading the conversation surrounding the blood and organ donor shortfalls.
Then check out We Are Donor’s Organ Donation talk’s impact on students in the last year.
Since 2021 our Blood Drives have achieved...
new University students registered as blood donors
0
+
students gave blood in our group donation sessions
0
These donations will have saved the lives of approximately
people
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Our Organ Donation Talk...
From September 2023 - February 2024, we engaged with 618 university students. The table below shows the impact of our presentation on students’ knowledge of organ donation as well as intention to register to the Organ donor register.
Students intending to join the organ donor register
Before the talk
10%
After the talk
56%
Students who have/intend to discuss organ donation with Family
Before the talk
Before the talk
27%
After the talk
Before the talk
84%
Awareness of issues Black, Asian, and ethnic minority populations
Before the talk
37%
After the talk
71%
Prizes
Over the years We Are Donors have won prizes not only for the research we have done but also our innovation and achievements as a charity.
- Smiley Charity Film Award 2024- Judges Silver Award
- Herrick Society Prize at British Transplantation Society Conference 2023 (competitive national prize) - 1st prize.
- Herrick Society Prize at British Transplantation Society Conference 2020 (competitive national prize) - 1st prize.
- Herrick Society Prize at Association of Surgeons in Training 2020 (competitive national prize) - 1st prize.
- Carrel Club/Association of Surgeons in Training Trainee Prize 2018 (competitive national prize) - 1st prize
- Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland/Association of Surgeons in Training Short Paper Prize 2018 (competitive national prize) - 1st prize
- Pride of Newcastle Awards 2018 - Outstanding contribution to lifelong health and wellbeing (competitive university prize) - 1st prize.
- Newcastle University Society Awards 2018 - Students in Health (competitive university prize) - 1st prize.
- Newcastle University Community Impact Awards 2018 - Contribution to the community (competitive university prize) - 1st prize.
- Pride of Newcastle Award - Outstanding Enterprising Spirit 2017 (competitive university prize) - 1st place.
- Newcastle University Student Union Celebrating Success Award - Student Leadership Award 2017 (competitive university prize) - 1st place.
- Newcastle University Student Union Celebrating Success Award - RiseUp Enterprising Research Award 2017 (competitive university prize) - Joint 1st place
Presentations
- ASGBI Conference 2021, virtual
- ‘Organ donation education in schools significantly increases organ donor registration, knowledge, and family discussion’ (Talking poster)
- ASiT Conference 2021, virtual
- ‘We Are Donors: Redeveloping educational material for schools in response to COVID-19’ (Poster presentation)
- British Transplant Society 2020, Belfast
- ‘Organ donation education in schools significantly increases organ donor registration, knowledge, and family discussion’ (Oral presentation)
- ‘Reasons For Organ Donor Register Decisions In Children’ (Poster presentation)
- Association of Surgeons in Training 2020, Edinburgh
- ‘The Effect Of Organ Donation Education In Schools’ (Poster presentation)
- ‘Reasons For Organ Donor Register Decisions In Children’ (Poster presentation)
- ‘Community communication training improves non-technical skills’ (Poster presentation)
- International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement Congress 2019, Dubai
- ‘School level education about the UK organ donor registry significantly increases knowledge, family discussion, and planned registry sign up’ (Oral presentation)
- Healthcare Leadership Academy Conference 2019, London
- ‘Evaluating Student Community Communication Training on Soft Skills’ (Oral presentation)
- Eurotransplant Annual Meeting 2018, Leiden, Netherlands
- ‘Systematic review on educational interventions to improve public engagement with organ donation’ (Poster presentation)
- Association of Surgeons in Training 2018, Edinburgh
- ‘Evaluation of quality of online information for patients in transplantation’ (Poster presentation)
- ‘School level education to increase organ donation and the effect of deprivation’ (Oral presentation)
- National Foundation Doctor Presentation Day 2018, Bristol
- ‘School level educational intervention to increase organ donation in the UK’ (Oral presentation)
- 7th European Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association Winter Symposium & 36th AIDPIT Workshop 2017, Innsbruck, Austria
- ‘The effect of a school education programme on pancreas transplant donation.’ (Poster presentation)
