Did you know that around 1.2 million people in the UK have kidney disease but don’t know it? Today is World Kidney Day, a day to help educate us all about how much a big deal kidney disease is & the suffering caused when they don’t work properly. #kidneysmatter World Kidney Day UK

The Very Best of Luck to our fabulous runners taking part in the TCS London Marathon today raising funds for GSTTKPA Tunde Faso Fasoyiro Jas Upaul Nick Rodger Claire Rodger George Luck Maice Browne GO SMASH IT!

Good luck to our team mate Rob who is running the TCS London Marathon today for the British Heart Foundation, we hope you have a great run! #Marathon #Running #HeartHealth #Fundraising

It’s always great to see our team members families showing their support at the games, and when they are fundraising as well it’s even more special - go Christopher!💪👊🏻

What a great way to combine training and supporting local community environmental initiatives! Great efforts from one of our young supporters! #fundraiser #volunteering

📣 It’s 2 weeks until the British Transplant Games! 📣 We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone again ❤️ our community is growing, and we have a huge team of 65 this year! Huge thank you to Guy's & St Thomas' Kidney Patients Association and Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social for their continued support of our team ❤️

As we get ready for the @WHBTG next week, 1 super star athlete is at the European Transplant Sports Championships today getting ready to smash the Long Jump and 100m! Good luck Rian, you’ve got all of #TeamGSTT behind you cheering you in back home! #Lisbon2024 #ETSC2024

Well, he only went & smashed it yesterday with not 1 but 2 🥇’s! Rian brought Gold home in both 100m & Long Jump. With 4 x 100m Relay today, we hope he’s prepared for excess baggage fees for all that extra weight!😉💪 #OrganDonationAwarenees #ETSC2024 #TeamGSTT

He did it again, young Rian the #RocketMan won ANOTHER Gold Medal in the 4x100m Relay to complete the hat trick! #TeamGBNI also received the Overall Heart, Lung & Overall Team Trophy! Rest up Rian, we need those powerhouse legs in Nottingham! #TeamGSTT #ETSC2024 #OrganDonation

Our wonderful VIP’s! 🐧 Can’t wait to see you all in Nottingham ❤️

We’re cheering on some superstar athletes closer to home over the coming days. We’re wishing a huge good luck to all our competitors taking part in the British Transplant Games. 🏅 #BTG2024

Another great Opening Ceremony yesterday evening at the #Nottingham2024 #BritishTransplantGames! With our biggest team yet! #TeamGSTT #BritishtransplantGames2024 #OrganDonation

What a cracking Friday #TeamGSTT had with an amazing 4 🥇 4 🥈 & 1 🥉! Today is looking equally as impressive and we still the 5Km Road Race and Donor Run this evening and a full athletics schedule tomorrow! #OrganDonation #BritishTransplantGames2024

As we reflect on another hugely successful #BritishTransplantGames we are pleased to share that #TeamGSTT won so much bling we need a team physio! Final Medal Count: 15 🥇 13 🥈 10 🥉 We also had our 1st ever Guy’s swim relay team & they made the podium with a bronze medal!

It's been another fantastic year for the Trust at the @WHBTG! 💙 240 heart, lung and kidney transplant patients, organ donors and their families attended 💙 1 paediatric and 2 adult teams 🏅 A total of 97 medals Read more: guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/news/guys-and-…

To mark the start #OrganDonationWeek #RaceforRecipients has kicked off with a flying start! With a close race between Guy's and St Thomas' & #GratefulGinge constantly battling for the top spot. At the end of day one #TeamGSTT covered a massive 117.8miles/189.5km! #RaceforRecipients #OrganDonation

What a busy week it’s been for #TeamGSTT! With 18hrs left of #RaceforRecipients Guy's and St Thomas' have covered 1,183.7miles // 1,904.9km putting us #32 in the national table! Can we hit 1,500miles // 2414km? We’ll do our best! #OrganDonationAwarenees #OrganDonationWeek NHS Blood+Transplant NHS Organ Donation💗🫀🫁

WOW! Since posting last night, the Guy's and St Thomas' community including members of GuysTransplantTeam another AWESOME 112.2 miles // 180.6km now #30 nationally! If we can bank another 204.1miles // 328.5km todays we can SMASH 1,500miles // 2,400km!!! #TeamGSTT #RaceforRecipients #OrganDonation

Sorry, did we say ‘If we can bank 204.1 miles…’ this morning? Surely not? Why? Because we SMASHED IT! Huge congratulations to all Guy's and St Thomas' participants in #RaceforRecipients. With a few hours to go we’ve banked 1,525m // 2454.6km - outstanding work! 💪🚶🏃‍♀️🚣🏊‍♀️ #OrganDonationWeek

So, We got it wrong. It happens. The Guy's and St Thomas' community did just go over 1,500 miles in the last few hours of #RaceforRecipients, we ABSOLUTELY SMASHED it finishing on a MASSIVE 1,783.3m // 2,869.9km!!! 2,000m next year anyone?! #TeamGSTT #RaceForRecipients #OrganDonationAwareness