Gemma needs your help to strike gold at World Transplant Games

A FORMER transplant patient from Grimsby is seeking to raise £2,000 in order to represent her country in the World Transplant Games in Malaga next year.
Gemma Wardle (nee Pickett) was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of five, which resulted in her needing dialysis three times a week for four hours, as previously reported.
Luckily, though, Gemma managed to receive a transplant when she was seven, which has massively changed her life for the better, as she has since gone on to represent Team Leeds in the British Transplant Games for the past 17 years, winning more than 50 medals, her... read more