Games launch event sees Sheffield residents urged to support organ donation as UK waiting list tops 8,000; with around 150 of those awaiting lifesaving treatment from South Yorkshire. Sheffield residents are being urged to save lives by signing the NHS Organ Donor Register, as the city gears up to host a major multi-sport event next summer that will celebrate transplant recipients and donors. The Westfield Health British Transplant Games, which is Transplant Active’s annual flagship event, is...

The City of Sheffield has secured the return of the Westfield Health British Transplant Games for the summer of 2026. Previously hosted in 2013 in Sheffield, the multi-sport Games will attract over three thousand registered participants, including one thousand athletes who have received a lifesaving organ transplant or stem cell transplant. ​ The Games is the flagship event of the charity Transplant Active, and will include twenty-four sports over four days, attracting sixty teams...