Madrid-based football club Getafe, the Spanish equivalent of Charlton Athletic, has come up with a novel way to recruit more fans – asking their current fans to become sperm donors. They’re promoting annual season tickets with the release of a video on YouTube, suggesting that fans should do the honourable thing to help increase membership …
Tag Archive: campaigns
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Jun
20
Letter to our donor
Most egg, sperm and embryo donations in the UK are anonymous. This can mean donors don’t realise just what a huge impact their generous gift has had. The Trust is running a project to collect thank you letters from parents to their donor – things they wish they could have said. These will be published …
Apr
13
Inspirational to see what one hour of good information can do
In 2010, MFS and the NGDT organised an informative event at the Rochdale Rugby Club. We wanted to see what was needed to inspire a group of fit healthy rugby players to become sperm donors. It took one hour of speaking to a sperm donor coordinator advising of all the technical, legal and financial ins …
Mar
21
Shock and awesome
Marie Stopes International, a charity giving contraception and abortion advice, has been criticised for releasing a viral video with a safe sex message aimed at teenagers: ‘One up the bum and you won’t be a mum’. Is being outrageous the most effective way to get people to listen to your message? In 2007, the NGDT …
Feb
14
Cuts to fertility services – a false economy?
On 8th February a new All-Party Parliamentary Committee for Infertility (APPCI) was launched at the Houses of Parliament. The Committee’s first task is to raise awareness of the serious impact of cuts to NHS fertility services and the effect this has on couples and their families. In 2004 the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) …