Raymond Briggs, the creator of "The Snowman" has kindly donated an original signed drawing of The Snowman, to auction and raise funds for Transplant Links. It could be an amazing once in a lifetime gift for a family member or friend.

Bids can be made online between 27th November and 4th December - just click here for the auction organised by The Big Give.

All proceeds will help towards our missions to Ghana and Jamaica in the first half of 2012.

Chris Eden, an old friend of Jennie's from Medical School, raised over £6k for TLC (and still counting!) by running in the Paris Marathon at the beginning of April. Despite very hot conditions which meant that over 9,000 people didn't finish, Chris soldiered on and can be seen in the picture looking fighting fit. TLC would sincerely like to thank Chris and all his sponsors for such an amazing effort. These funds will help towards our first ever mission to Jamaica later this year, where currently no transplant programme exists.

Visit Chris's Just Giving fundraising page here.

Your chance to join a fantastic event, and raise funds for TLC too.

The London to Paris charity cycle is a great experience and a fabulous challenge. Cycling over 5 days you will cover nearly 500 km. A challenge like this is not just about distances covered and start and finishing points, the bike ride is about group effort, friendship and more importantly spirit.

Click here if you would like to take part, or to read more.

Kelly Richardson

As student ODP's me, Vicky Mason and Josh Turner have seen first hand how challenging and difficult surgical procedures can be and have seen how much training and dedication by both the trainees and their mentors is required to ensure the success of the most minor of operations in high tech modern theatres. So, when you think that TLC teaches these skills in the developing world not for minor surgical procedures but for major living donor kidney transplants we felt they really deserved the money we were hoping to raise running the BUPA Great Yorkshire Run in Sheffield. We trained for four months to get to the start line and it really paid off as not only did we all finish but we have raised at least £300! It has been really exciting for us and we have benefited from great support from TLC and we now have our sights set on the Sheffield Half Marathon in May. With a bit of luck we will raise some more money and awareness for TLC and the work they do.

Nathan Charlish

Congratulations and a huge TLC Thank You to the team cycling across the Australian Alps for Transplant Links. They reached the finishing line a few days ago, and so far have raised over £8k for TLC. If you would like to sponsor them please click here.

Pictures of their mission are on our blog.

Following a call for help from colleagues in Nepal, TLC visited Bir Hospital in Kathmandu this February. The TLC medical team provided expert advice and support to help develop the local living kidney transplant facilities. See the mission summary.

A slideshow of photos from our Trinidad mission is now available to view on You Tube here.

TLC are pleased to announce the launch of our new blog where you'll be able to read about the day to day goings on at TLC.

You'll also be able to read about the progress of the three cyclists Gary Roche, Dan Bridgeman and Geoff Clarkson who in February aim to raise £20,000 for TLC by cycling 12,000 km from Sydney to Melbourne! We wish them well.

In November 2009, TLC took a medical team to Trinidad to oversee living donor transplants within three families and medical training continued. See the mission summary and some images in the gallery here.

Portal Gallery, London, the world's leading idiosyncratic art gallery kindly supported TLC with a silent auction at its December Private View. Over £3,000 was raised.

TLC completed a successful mission to Nigeria, teaching local surgeons to perform two life-saving kidney operations. See the mission summary and pictures in the gallery here.

ITV sent a reporter with TLC to Ghana in May 2009. View the footage here and get a real feel for TLC’s work.

TLC's second mission to Ghana advanced transplant skills and saved more lives. See the mission summary and some images in our gallery here.

In 2008, TLC performed the first kidney transplant operation in Ghana. Charles Antwi's life was saved as he became the first donor recipient.

Click here to read about what it means his life-saving operation means to Charles, in his own words.

TLC has performed the first ever kidney transplants in Ghana with great success. The TLC team travelled to Accra to work with the local team at the Korle Bu Hospital, to demonstrate and teach live kidney transplantation.

We were able to help a father save the life of his son, a sister save her brother, and a wife save her husband. Kidney failure in Ghana usually means death as kidney dialysis is out of financial reach of most and transplantation has never been available before. The TLC visit is the first in a series to provide ongoing teaching and support towards a self-sustaining transplant centre serving the people of Ghana.

Click here to read the full press release (pdf format).

TLC has performed the first ever kidney transplants in children in Trinidad.

Click here to read the full press release.

Transplant Links recently arranged for Felix from Ghana to come to the UK for a life-saving transplant. His father donated one of his kidneys to save Felix' life when he had just a few weeks left to live. The operation was a great success.

Click here to read the full press release (pdf format).

Well done Aimee for helping raise funds for Felix by selling friendship bracelets. Aimee wanted to help with the fundraising for Felix by finding as many friends for him as she could and asking them to donate £1 for a friendship bracelet. Many friends came forward and Aimee raised a fantastic £400!

You can still buy friendship bracelets online to help TLC here.