Preston FM is pleased to be working with NHS Blood & Transplant to help raise awareness and change behaviour with regard to organ donation, especially amongst Black & Minority Ethnic communities.

We hope that you’ll be interested in helping us out – whether you’re an existing Preston FM volunteer or you’ve never worked with us before, we’re looking for people to give a little time to this exciting and creative project.

Black and South Asian people are three times more likely to need an organ transplant than the rest of the population. However a shortage of registered donors means that they have to wait, on average, three times longer for a transplant than a White person and are under-represented on the organ donor register. Consent to donation is also less likely where relatives are from a BME background.

Whatever your background, we need your help to create radio features, discussions, debates and other on-air and off-air content over the next few months, to support the NHS’s BME Organ Donation campaign. As well as contributing to a worthwhile project, you’ll be able to pick up some new radio skills yourself and work alongside others on an exciting radio social action campaign.

Everyone’s welcome – whether you’d like to take part as an individual or on behalf of a group; and whether you can give a few hours or a few weeks to the project.

To kick off, we’re pleased to be able to welcome Jim Harrison, a specialist nurse from the NHS Blood & Transplant service, to brief us all about some of the issues that the campaign could cover. We’d love you to join us to hear from him and start thinking of creative ideas for the project. Light refreshments will be provided.