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28 December 05 - Keeping it Short - William and Emily Alderton have a tasty idea for raising money for the Daniel Courtney Trust Click here

16 December 05 - A huge cheque in more ways than one - pictures now available Click here

04 November 05 - Charity Auction - full report and pictures now available Click here

09 November 2005 - Live Liver transplants get the go-ahead Click here

14 Oct 05 - We are delighted to announce that we have been granted charity status by the Charity Commission. Our official registration number is 1111697. To learn more about registered charities and what this means for us, please take a look at the Charity Commission's web site

3 Oct 05 - Edward's House has just put their 2005 Christmas card list on their website. We can't think of a better place to get your cards this year. We're hoping to have our own cards for 2006, but, until then...

They have some excellent designs. Here are two of them. Just click on the image to go to the site.

25 - 28 Aug 05 - British Transplant Games - pic's and stuff... another success story and picture added - Oct 05 Click here

21 Aug 05 - Sponsored bike ride report! Click here

19 Aug 05 - The first person has signed up to our newsletter (well we thought it was worthy of a news item!) Why don't you sign up too - it's free and means you'll be the first to hear about special offers from our sponsors - just click here

DoNation is a major new season launched by the BBC highlighting the issues around organ donation in the UK. It aims to raise awareness, explain the facts, dispel myths and encourage people to make an informed decision about whether to add their name to the Register.

Headlining DoNation on BBC ONE are the following programmes:

Life On The List: a five-part documentary series telling personal stories about organ donation (being shown every weekday from Monday 22 to Friday 26 August 2005, 7pm BBC ONE)

DoNation: Kidney Transplant: Professor Robert Winston introduces this hour-long special focusing on the real-life story of husband and wife Rajesh and Varsha as they undergo a living donor kidney transplant operation. (being shown on Thursday 25 August 2005, 9pm BBC ONE)

Casualty at Holby City - Interactive: Casualty and Holby City join forces for the first ever interactive episode presented by Prof Robert Winston. With two patients desperately needing an organ transplant and only one donor - viewers get the chance to experience the tough decisions doctors face everyday. Have your say on how the episode will end. (being shown on Saturday 27 August 2005, 8.20pm BBC ONE)

There is an excellent BBC website to accompany the season at www.bbc.co.uk/health/donation with lots of facts and figures. You can even download screensavers and send e-cards.

The 28th British Transplant Games is taking place between 25th - 28th August and is being hosted in Loughborough and Leicester. This annual event aims to encourage transplant patients to live life to the full and help them to regain their fitness, while increasing public awareness of the value of organ donation and encouraging more people to sign up to the donor register. This year more than 700 athletes, of all ages, who have had an organ transplant, will be taking part in a wide range of sports from athletics and cycling to golf, table tennis and fishing.

To learn more about this remarkable sporting event, please click on the following link: http://www.tsagb.org/

We hope to have some photos following the event. Good luck William, we'll be cheering you on!

It's official, the the teletyper has been clacking away all afternoon and now we have the first piece of news for the news page.

05/08/05 - The 'making it better - daniel courtney trust' web site is up and running. And it's truly magnificent! Oh, there's nothing like a little hyperbole to get things going.