Andy Davies has reported that
“The 192 Members of the Blood Bikes Emergency Service in the West of England were recently awarded a service medal, the first time in the UK that a medal has been issued to members of a Blood Bike Service.
HM’s representative representative for Bristol; The Lord-Lt, Mrs Peaches Golding OBE, CStJ, who is also a Royal Naval Officer, presented the medals along with Air Vice Marshall Martin Clark and senior officers from the Police, Fire and Ambulance Emergency Services who all fully supported the presentations and awards.
International Motorcycle Distributer ‘Fowlers Motorcycles’ sponsored and hosted the awards ceremony.
The medal and certificates were a combination in recognition of thirty years since the group was founded and National Blood Bike Day as well as celebrating the forthcoming Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen.
Despite being charities and run exclusively by volunteers, Blood Bikes are now recognised as official emergency service vehicles and form an integral part of NHS front line services.”
Many of our association members are Blood Bikes riders and so to them and the rest of the Blood Bikes Service riders we send our congratulations and thank you for such an important role they fill for the National Health Service
