The Anthony Nolan Trust is an independent charity, so it continually relies of financial support from individuals and organisations to carry out its lifesaving work. All our funding is secured through our own initiative, enterprise and hard work.
The main source of our income are the fees we need to charge for the searches we conduct (both in the UK and overseas) for donors whose tissue types match those of the adults and children throughout the world who need a lifesaving bone marrow transplant.
Our charitable fundraising events come in all shapes and sizes – we, and our many volunteers, can be seen doing anything from surviving without food for six days in the wilds of Dorset, to walking the Inca trail; abseiling from absurdly tall buildings; our very own high society Daisy Ball and an Emmerdale Extravaganza.
Legacies, payroll giving and one-off donations are making a growing contribution to our income, as is corporate support. High awareness, and the positive association the public has with our work, is influencing more and more commercial organisations to explore sponsorship with The Anthony Nolan Trust. Our partnership with Saks Health and Beauty is a very good example of how sponsorship can provide a win-win-win relationship for The Anthony Nolan Trust, a commercial organisation and the thousands of children and adults who depend on our finding a matching bone marrow donor.
The expertise we have acquired in tissue-typing over the years also enables us to offer to the medical profession the service of providing molecular analysis of blood and organ tissues. In this way, by undertaking activities in support of our charitable objectives, we generate income to to fund more charitable initiatives.
