Author: Dan Hartland Saving Lives
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Sammy Ameobi and Vurnon Anita, who play for Tyneside giants Newcastle United, have agreed to become Football Saving Lives advocates alongside fellow North-East stars Craig Gardner and Steven Fletcher, who play for Sunderland. You can read more about Sammy here, and more about Vurnon here. In addition, our Newcastle United club booklet is now available…
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Grace Taylor has already raised £160 for Saving Lives with her charity video Gobbo’s Revenge – and she’s now moved on to its sequel in a bid to get even more money into the charity’s coffers! Watch the new film below, and donate to Grace’s campaign here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMX8GkL-RSo
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Our friends at Body Positive North East are undertaking a great awareness-raising event this July: a simultaneous bike ride and walk around Kielder Water in Northumberland. Body Positive North East (BPNE) is a long established user-led organisation, providing support and services to people, families and communities affected by HIV throughout the North East since 1988.…
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Grace Taylor, aged 10, has directed her first short film to raise money for Saving Lives. Using Virgin Money, she has already raised £90 for the charity, and we’re confident she’s going to raise much more! You can donate using her page. Watch Grace’s film below – we think you’ll agree she looks set to…
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England and Chelsea Ladies star Eniola Aluko appears in our latest Football Saving Lives video, talking about her career, why she’s supporting the charity, and how getting an HIV test really can save lives. Watch it in full below!
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It’s great to see our positive ambassador, Angelina Namiba, proudly wearing her Saving Lives t-shirt in this post at Speaking Up (the blog of another of our ambassadors, Sylvia Pettreti!): We all have relationships. Those that we choose to be in. Such as relationships with partners, friends, lovers, wives and husbands. Those that we have…
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At Saving Lives, we believe that few things in the fight against HIV and AIDS are as important as education and public advocacy. In a country such as South Africa, where 18% of the population were living with HIV in 2012, that awareness-raising is critical. The death of Nelson Mandela, then, marks the passing of…
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World AIDS Day is always an emotional time: it’s a day on which both to take stock and look back; we can see how far we’ve come, but also how much we have left to do. World AIDS Day is a day to remember those no longer with us – and, to honour them, we…
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We were at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital’s Hawthorn House today to take part in their 20th anniversay celebrations. Saving Lives ambassador Sally Walton was there to help with the balloon release, and our battle bus was on hand to provide HIV testing information. [nggallery id=27]
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There was a great interview with the brilliant Curtis Davies in yesterday’s Independent – you can read it here. It’s wide-ranging and interesting, and includes a mention of Saving Lives and our work: His involvement in all aspects of St Andrew’s life did not convey the impression that his third Midlands club was a staging…