This year it’s entitled ‘Strength to Strength’ and will be held at Blackpool’s Hilton Hotel, from the 19th-21st October 2018.
Patients Conference Booking Form now available.
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For more information please get in touch with any of the committee members.
Birmingham was the venue for the 2018 Games and was held on August 2nd-5th
The Transplant Games are the flagship project of the charity Transplant Sport and have been in existence for over 30 years. The first ‘Transplant Olympics’ was held at Portsmouth in 1978. At that time the games were an International event and included teams from France, Greece and even the USA.
Since those early beginnings, with competitors affectionately known as the ’99 Blooming Miracles’, the games have grown and are held in different cities around the UK. The British Transplant Games have been staged annually since 1978 in 17 host cities such as Portsmouth (1994), Belfast (1998), Edinburgh (2007), Medway (2012), Sheffield (2013), Bolton (2014), Newcastle/Gateshead (2015) and Liverpool (2016).
The Games aim to demonstrate the benefits of transplantation, encouraging transplant patients to regain fitness, whilst increasing public awareness of the need for more people to join the NHS Organ Donation Register and discuss their wishes with their families. They also seek to thank and celebrate donor families and the gift of life.
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