5 life-changing gift ideas
Tis the season for giving, but what to buy? If you’re struggling for ideas, Lifeblood has a few that are guaranteed to score you a spot on Santa’s good list. We’ll even wrap it for free!
Doing good never looked so good
We’ve been helping blood donors show their true colours on their arm. We partnered with some very talented artists, who designed fun, colourful, stunning and festive bandages.
Check out the past designs (and get excited about what’s to come!).
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Give blood. Fight cancer.
To help raise awareness of the use of blood, plasma and platelets in cancer treatment, we teamed up with fashion designer and cancer survivor Camila Franks to create an iconic True Colours bandage.
Celebrate the women who give
To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, we celebrated the women who change lives through Lifeblood with limited-edition bandage by iconic Australian fashion designer Jenny Kee.
National Blood Donor Week, 12-18 June 2023.
Australia’s blood donors are pretty rare birds: this year we celebrated our donors with a stunning, limited-edition bandage designed by Min Pin.
NAIDOC Week
We teamed up with Archibald Prize-winning Australian artist and musician Blak Douglas to celebrate the 2023 NAIDOC Week theme For Our Elders.
National Science Week
From medical breakthroughs to ground-breaking research, we’ve been at the forefront of innovation for decades. We celebrated National Science Week with a brand new, fun, and striking bandage.
Movember
Together with the world’s leading men’s health charity, Movember, Lifeblood wants to help shape a better future for men and those around them.
Christmas 2023
There were thousands of people across the country who depended on donated blood this year, and Australia’s blood donors were there for them. That’s pretty special.
True Colours news
Blood of the future
Have you ever wondered if we could grow blood outside the body? It’s an exciting prospect, with incredible potential.
Lifeblood and blood donors are stepping up to fight cancer
Close to 20,000 Australians will be newly diagnosed with a form of blood cancer this year.
What does climate change have to do with blood donation?
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest challenges of our time.
Three generations of women who give
Finding a way to give back made a huge difference to Fatima and her family. And now, they get to celebrate every donation surrounded by family — and with homemade pizza, of course.
5 tips for women in STEM with Dr Lacey Johnson
Looking at a career in medical research? We caught up with Dr Lacey Johnson, to find out what advice she has for the next generation of women in STEM.
Recognising women who give: how one mum gave hope by giving breast milk
When Janske’s twins were born at just 25 weeks her doctors told her how important it was to try and express milk, even if it was just one drop – she gave so much more.
Jase faced his cancer with an army of donors
Jase’s cancer diagnosis brought a community of blood donors together
How a cancer diagnosis turned a mother into a lifesaver
After learning her baby boy had cancer, Candice felt powerless, but she found hope in blood donation.
Discover how the blood you give helps haematologists fight cancer.
As a haematologist, Dr Tatarczuch has been involved in over 100 clinical trials and provided life-saving therapies for countless patients with haematological cancers.