SERV (charity)
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| Founded | July 11, 1981 |
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| Type | Registered charity |
| Registration no. | 284455 |
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Revenue | £105,178 (year ended 31 March 2011)[1] |
Employees | 0 |
Volunteers | 500 |
Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers, or SERV, is a Blood Bikes charity based in England, whose volunteers provide a motorcycle courier service, free of charge to the National Health Service. SERV was established in 1981.[1]
SERV is an umbrella for several independent regional Blood Bike charities that use the SERV moniker - SERV Surrey & South London, SERV Sussex, SERV Kent, SERV Ox Bucks Berks and Northants, SERV Suffolk and Cambridge, SERV Norfolk, SERV Wessex, SERV Herts & Beds. Their volunteers work outside normal office hours and use either their own or the charity's dedicated response motorcycles to transport items such as blood for transfusion, blood samples for pathological or microbiological analysis, drugs, patient notes, x-rays, scans, medical equipment, samples, vaccines and donated human breast milk.
The SERV groups are some of a number of charities that provide the service across the UK and work closely with other Blood Bike groups such as Freewheelers EVS (Bristol) and Severn Freewheelers when transport over longer distances is required. SERV is a founder member of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes (NABB).
References
- 1 2 "Charity Overview". The Charity Commission. Retrieved 26 February 2012.