OBVIOUSLY not scared of needles, staff at Medical Accident Group are doing all they can to support World Blood Donor Day on June 14.

The clinical negligence and personal injury lawyers will be giving blood themselves on the day at the Methodist Church Hall in Pump Street, Worcester and are keen that others should join in too. The average donation is about a pint of blood and takes about an hour.

Partner Ally Taft said: “Clean, safe blood is such a vital part of any operation or critical treatment, and we feel very strongly that as many people as possible should take up the challenge of World Blood Donation Day and play their part. Their donation could help to save someone’s life – how much more important could it be?”

The message of this year’s event, backed by the World Health Organisation, is "Blood connects us all", and voluntary, unpaid donors, especially those who give blood regularly, are the safest contributors of blood – 62 countries, including the UK, source all their blood supplies from volunteers like the Medical Accident Group staff.

Sessions will be held at the Methodist Church Hall on June 14 and 28, at Christopher Whitehead school on June 2, and at Lyppard Grange community centre in Warndon villages on May 29 and June 12.