Bloody Great Friday
Australia's first 24-hour blood drive features live music and free kebabs and Gelato Messina.
Overview
If you're one of those people who's always meaning to give blood, now might be the perfect time to roll up your sleeve. The Australian Red Cross Blood Service needs 99,000 new donors, and so they're hosting Australia's first 24-hour donate-a-thon — with some bloody great incentives to get you through the door.
A CBD donor centre on Edward Street will be open for 24-hours from 7pm on Thursday, June 13 through to 7pm on Friday, June 14 (aka World Blood Donor Day). To encourage you to donate, there'll be live music, live magic and free food. Oh, and you'll be helping to save up to three lives.
We all know it's important to have a bite to eat after giving blood, and for once it'll be more than just a cookie and a party pie. Celebrity chef Richard Ousby (previously at Stokehouse) will be serving up pulled pork 'donor' kebabs with salt and vinegar veggie chips and a whipped cheese dip. And Gelato Messina have created a new flavour just for the occasion — blood orange cheesecake gelato with red velvet cake and raspberry puree. How very fitting.
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