Motorcyclists to ride around county for charity

Five men and a woman are stood infront of a helicopter belonging to Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex. Five of them are volunteers, one of them is a Doctor for the air ambulance. Infront of them is an air ambulance motorbike. Image source, Ben Leete
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SERV Kent makes about 6,300 journeys every year

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A group of Harley Davidson owners are set to ride around Kent to help raise money for a charity that makes free deliveries to hospitals in the county.

On Saturday morning, a group from the Invicta Harley Davidson Chapter will meet at Rochester Airport before travelling 140 miles around hospitals that Service by Emergency Response Volunteers, known as SERV Kent, deliveries to.

Also known as bloodrunners, the charity's volunteers transport blood, among other items, outside working hours.

Desmond Cross, a bloodrunner from SERV Kent taking part in the convoy, said: "It makes a big difference and I'm sure along the route people will come out to see us go past. I know I would if I wasn't in it!"

The riders will be joined by bloodrunners during their challenge, which is expected to take more than five hours.

The journey will include Medway Maritime Hospital, Darent Valley Hospital, Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Maidstone Hospital, William Harvey Hospital, Kent and Canterbury Hospital and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital.

SERV Kent is run entirely through a group of volunteers who provide their own transport.

Without the bloodrunners, deliveries would have to be made by other means, such as courier, taxi, police, ambulance or by NHS Blood and Transplant.

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