| Peter Windatt, a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and Local ACCA member with local firm BRI Business Recovery and Insolvency, on Wednesday 1 st March gave his 50 th donation of blood.
Licensed Insolvency Practitioners are not known for their generosity. Acting as receivers, liquidators, trustees in bankruptcy and the like have earned them something of a reputation. One of the definitions of their kind is "someone who comes onto the battlefield after the battle has been fought, bayonets the wounded and robs the dead". A little harsh in the case of Peter who has been giving blood regularly for some years.
"The children often come with me when I donate and help the staff to carry out their duties - or else just eat the biscuits - they are both keen to start giving blood as soon as they are able and it won't be that long now until their 17 th birthdays"
Peter told us "my brother was in a horrendous car accident in 1992 and was in intensive care for some weeks - that really hammered home to me the importance of what blood donors do. If I were in an accident I'd want others to have given blood for my benefit, so I see my donations as being something I should do for as long as I am able. It's so easy to help save a life. My last session took just 30 minutes from walking through the door to walking out again."
Its amazing who you bump into when giving blood as Peter discovered - "a couple of sessions back I missed my regular appointment due to work commitments, shortly afterwards I was enjoying a day off in Birmingham with my children and some of their friends during half term - so I dropped in to the Birmingham blood donor
centre where I bumped into not one but two other Insolvency Practitioners, one of whom I had worked alongside during my 5 years in Birmingham". Perhaps Insolvency Practitioners aren't such a bad lot after all.
Lyndsay Stewart, spokesperson for the National Blood Service says: "Loyal donors like Peter are the lifeblood of the service. The fact that they give up their own time, three times a year means that we can supply UK hospitals with the 8,000 donations of blood they require every day. We are very grateful and can only hope his children carry on the tradition as the demand for blood never stops."
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