Tickets for Save Jess-tival are now on sale!

It's official!

Tickets for our Save Jess-tival are on sale NOW!

Click here to buy and hurry, they're going fast!

Hope to see you there -thanks for your support!

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Announcing: Save Jess-tival!!

We are very very excited to announce our upcoming ‘Save Jess-tival', a fantastic night of music and comedy to honour our wonderful Jess and to encourage people to "think about it, talk about it and do something about it" (organ donation that is!)

Our headline acts are: stunning singer Natalie Imbruglia, and Canadian comedian Glenn Wool and Mock the Week favourite Ed Byrne, with more to announce later in the week.

This star-studded fundraiser will place on the evening of Friday October 16th at The Village Underground in Shoreditch, London. Doors open at 7.00pm.

Tickets will be available very soon and are limited so, to make sure you are first in the queue, please register your interest by emailing us at info@savejess.org.uk and we will email you with full booking details as soon as the tickets go live, so you can beat the rush!

For more info on our 'Save Jess' campaign, please visit http://www.savejess.org.uk/

All proceeds go to the Organ Donation Charity Live Life Then Give Life, of which Jess is an Advocate.

*stop press* LLTGL at StreetFest

If you are London way and are looking for some fun this afternoon, LLTGL will be at StreetFest from 2pm this afternoon @ Hearne St car park, 7-11 Hearn St, Shoreditch, London, EC2 3LS

Building a modern day community of collective creativity StreetFest is a new breed of festival where the onus is on promoting and merging creative talents
StreetFest, is the first live art street festival in UK. StreetFest performers are drawn from a across the artististic spectrum ranging from creative painters, architects, designers, illustrators, skaters and writers who will be expressing themselves during the day through live demos, screenings and shows. This niche festival pulls together design styles and crews from all over the world.

Matt (our tall Trustee), his lovelly wife Bex and Sarah, our PR genius behind the savejess campaign will all be there... so if you're around please come say hello!

The great big LLTGL abseil!

On the November 7th 2009, Holly and her team of 41 will be taking part in a -gulp!- 100ft abseil down the famous Leasowe Lighthouse on the Wirral to raise funds for LLTGL.

Holly and her team have all been affected by organ donation in some way as recipients, donor families or have lost someone they love because their transplant didn't come in time. For Holly herself, the abseil represents a huge personal challenge that she would never have been able to contemplate without her wonderful donor and their family.

If you want to show your support, please dig deep and sponsor the big LLTGL abseil over at Holly's JustGiving page!

You can also join the Live Life Then Give Life Abseil group on facebook and follow Holly and her team on her blog!

Thanks as ever for your support,

Scared and frightened......

This is our South-East advocate Jess two weeks ago

This is Jess today
Jess is currently in hospital fighting for every breath. Her lungs are failing and so she is wearing a non-invasive ventilator to keep her going. We at LLTGL are very very scared that we are going to lose our beautiful friend all because not enough people are signed up to the Organ Donor Register.

Jess, and others like her who are also facing head-on the harsh and terrible realities of the lack of organ donors, can be saved.

Please take a minute to read about organ donation and transplants
Please sign the Organ Donor Register

Please talk about it with your family
Please tell all your friends
Please tweet, facebook, myspace, bebo- anything you can to get people talking about, thinking about and acting on organ donation.

Without a transplant soon, Jess will die. We don't want to lose such a wonderful girl and a special friend.

Please.

Did anyone see us on the telly last night?!?!

Woah!

Apparently we were featured last night on the Vodafone ads in between the Secret Millionaire programme

We all missed it and are dying to know if anyone else managed to catch the adverts?!?! If so, let us know what you thought!!

WE WON!!

What an exciting night last night was, and we are hugely proud to announce that last night, LLTGL walked away with Best New Charity 2009.

It was the Charity Times Awards 10th Anniversary and the evening was fantastic; we were genuinely surprised (and hugely thrilled) to win, and still can't quite believe that we're an award-winning charity 2 years running!

We've received such lovely messages of support and congratulations and we're really very touched by all the recognition.

They are small words but we have to say them again as there are no others: Thank you all, so very much.

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