Stem cells / bone marrow
You can get started as a potential stem cell donor online straightaway and have a DIY registration kit sent to you.
How to Register
Our Mission
To help save and improve lives by educating, inspiring and motivating people, especially from ethnically diverse communities, to register as blood, organ and stem cell donors.
About
‘Team Margot’ has been campaigning for more donors since December 2013 however the charity, Team Margot Foundation was officially established in January 2015. Initially, Team Margot was known as a recruiter of people to the stem cell register, however during treatment Margot needed many blood and platelet transfusions and because Vicki and I considered donating Margot’s organs (after she was declared incurable), we also encouraged more blood and organ donors too.
Three paths to give
Team Margot works with all the UK organisations in the stem cell / bone marrow arena & we are reaching out to the international organisations too – we don’t mind how you choose to register, only that you do please register !
Blood
Become a blood donor. Blood and platelet donations are ideally regular, ongoing commitments.
Become a blood donorOrgan
Register as an organ donor. Organ donation, more often than not, can be our final gesture as human beings.
Register as an organ donor
Margot’s story
Margot had an extremely rare dual lineage Leukaemia with both Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) & Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). The consultant haematologist told us that he had only seen 3 such cases in 10 years.
Latest blog posts
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7 October 2026 · Donor Registration · Videos & Media
Team Margot Donor Registration Day
I took the above photo 13 years ago today, as Vicki was busy packing a bag, preparing for a hospital stay. For me, Monday 7th October 2013 is a day I’ll never forget. What happened that day changed my life, forever: my daughter was diagnosed…
23 September 2026 · APPG & Policy
Leave them certain — NHSBT’s urgent call on organ donation
NHS Blood and Transplant are asking families to do one simple thing: leave them certain. In England, most adults are considered willing to donate organs unless they have opted out. In practice, families are still asked. When nobody knows what you wanted, that conversation lands…
21 September 2026
It’s Organ Donation Week
A few years ago, for Father’s Day, Jay Patel and I sat down together for NHS Blood and Transplant. Two dads. Both of us had lost a young child. Jay’s son Aari became an organ donor and helped save other children. Margot’s story touched blood,…
Advocacy
Where are our nation's donors?
That APPG was established by Team Margot and its first inquiry report, 'Where are our nation's donors?', published in December 2023, laid bare the double inequity faced by minority ethnic and mixed-heritage patients: higher need for transplants in some communities and significantly lower chances of finding a well-matched donor.
A note from October 2024
While the charity, Team Margot Foundation is drawing to a close, our personal and individual dedication to these causes will continue, albeit outside the formal structure of a charity. Team Margot will continue to advocate for donation and fight the health inequalities that minority ethnic and mixed heritage patients face with transplant and transfusion treatments.
