(The Bank Statement is also available as a PDF document.)

A facility for tissue donors
Our success in promoting the work of the Tissue Bank, and the generosity and forethought of people wanting to make a special contribution to research is demonstrated by the fact that 1661 people (80% of whom have MS) are currently registered as tissue donors. The graph below shows how the number of people requesting an Information Pack (blue line) and registering as donors (red line) has increased over the last 3 years.

The steep rise in the number of people registering as donors between August and October 1998 coincided with an invitation to donors originally registered at the Queen Square Bank to re-register at Charing Cross and the publication in MS Matters of the first article about the Tissue Bank. As you will see, there are still about 900 people who have received an Information Pack and have either not yet sent in their registration forms or have decided that tissue donation is not right for them. We are encouraged that the total number of people requesting information and registering as donors is still steadily rising because we need even more people to register.