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The Crown Estate's Neil Dodds receives gold award for 50th blood donation from NHSBT

Neil Dodds, Head Gardener at Frogmore, Home Park, Windsor, received the Gold Award for fifty whole blood donations from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), when he gave blood last week as part of The Crown Estate’s commitment to enabling staff to donate blood in working hours through the NHSBT’s ‘Donate Blood at Work’ scheme.

Neil, who has worked for The Crown Estate for thirty years, said:

“Donating blood is very important to me as a way of helping others. You never know when you, your family, or friends may need blood and it is vital to ensure that blood bank levels are adequate. I used to donate blood in Old Windsor and then Windsor but, since the NHSBT unit began coming to The Crown Estate just over a year ago, it is so easy and convenient to do it as part of my working day. “

Philip Everett, Deputy Ranger, Windsor Great Park, says:

“The Crown Estate, as a recognised Investor in People, is delighted to support staff participating in the NHSBT ‘Donate Blood at Work’ scheme on the Windsor Estate. Blood donation is important and The Crown Estate is pleased to be able to make this contribution to the community.”

Mick Bennett, Area Donor Services Manager (Reading and Slough) at NHSBT, said:

"Blood is a vital resource to saving and improving the lives of millions of people every year. People like Neil are so committed to helping others and it is a pleasure for us to present him with a Gold Award for his 50^th blood donation."

Approximately fifty staff from The Crown Estate regularly donate blood when the NHSBT service visits the Estate. The blood collected is used to treat patients in hospitals all over the South East, including Berkshire.

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Notes to Editors:

The Crown Estate manages a highly diverse property business valued at £6.6 billion.
We pay all of our surplus revenue (profit) to the Treasury for the benefit of the nation every year: in 2009/10 this was £210.7 million. Over the past ten years The Crown Estate has paid a total of £1.9 billion to the Treasury.
Our objectives, which are laid down by Parliament under the Crown Estate Act 1961, include enhancing the value of the estate and the revenue it produces.
The responsibilities of The Crown Estate are to maintain and enhance the value of the estate and its income over the long term and to do this having regard to good management. In summary, The Crown Estate is a successful business organisation guided by our core values – commercialism, integrity and stewardship.
The Crown Estate manages a diverse property portfolio which includes office, retail and industrial premises; housing; farmland; forestry and minerals; parkland; and around half the foreshore and almost all the seabed around the UK.
The Crown Estate’s property comprises four estates: urban, marine, rural and Windsor.
For more information about The Crown Estate visit www.thecrownestate.co.uk

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority in the NHS. It is the organ donor organisation for the UK and is responsible for matching and allocating donated organs. Its remit also includes the provision of a reliable, efficient supply of blood and associated services to the NHS.
NHSBT’s donor line - 0300 123 23 23 - is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week with all calls charged at the standard local rate, even from mobile phones.
The NBS collects approximately two million units of blood each year from 1.4 million blood donors.
The NHS needs 7,000 voluntary donations of blood daily.

For more press information, call Sarah Halstead, Marketing Department, The Crown Estate, on 07918 121905 or email sarah.halstead@thecrownestate.co.uk



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