NewStart Charity

26/08/2025

Huge congratulations to our Team Wythenshawe competitors Andy, Bill, Jade, Neil, Gary L, Kash, Simon and Gary S who did a fabulous job representing Team GB in the Official World Transplant Games 🇬🇧

Blown away by all the news of more Team GB medals and fantastic achievements!! Just WOW!! 🥳 In addition to Jade’s silver🥈, Bill’s silvers and bronzes 🥈🥈 🥉, Kash’s gold 🥇 our lovely Team Wythenshawe competitors had more Team GB successes!!

Huge well done Gary L and Gary S for your golds 🥇 👏 🥇 👏 🥇 👏 🥇 👏 and Jade for your additional bronze 🥉👏 and Simon for your gold🥇 👏 Not forgetting Neil for your Hall of Fame 🤩👏 This was also Andy’s 9th World Transplant Games! 🌎

Incredible!!! You should be so proud of yourselves for your efforts 🥲

You’re all amazing and a real credit to Team GB 🇬🇧 ❤️ 2nd in Best Team (and first in number of medals!)…fantastic!!! 🙌🏻 Well done to each and every one of you, and your lovely supporters too 🥰

21/08/2025

Day 4 yesterday and Day 5 today looked action packed again at the Official World Transplant Games! Congratulations to our very own Bill from Team Wythenshawe for his Team GB medals in swimming 🥉 🥈 🥈 👏 🇬🇧 and our Team Wythenshawe world champion Kash who won gold in the darts!🥇 👏

New Start are so proud to support all of our incredible team members who are out there in Dresden competing post-transplant for their country 🥲 Truly inspirational ✨ Go Team GB! 🇬🇧 🌎 🫁🫀❤️

20/08/2025

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20/08/2025

Day 3 yesterday…⛳️ 🚴 🌎
Well done to everyone involved! Go Team GB 🇬🇧

20/08/2025

Looks like a fabulous Day 2 of the Official World Transplant Games!! Huge congratulations to our very own Jade with her silver medal for singles table tennis 🏓 🥈 👏 Fantastic world-class achievement! 🌎 🇬🇧 🥈 ❤️

18/08/2025

Fantastic!! Day 1 of the Official World Transplant Games 🌎 Good luck Team GB!! 🇬🇧

15/08/2025

Lots of good luck to Team GB in the Official World Transplant Games in Dresden, Germany!! 🇩🇪 We’re very proud of our Team Wythenshawe competitors who are now competing against the world 🌎
Lots of good luck…and enjoy it! ❤️

Best of luck to GB's Transplant Team as they head out to Dresden for Official World Transplant Games! 🇬🇧

Thousands of athletes will be competing in 17 different sporting events from the 17th to the 24th August. Many of the athletes have also competed at the , so you may have seen some of them on this page already.

Here's hoping they bring back lots of medals!

You can follow the games online. Link in the comments below ⬇️

11/08/2025

Congratulations to Team Wythenshawe’s very own Neil MacDonald who has been inducted into the World Transplant Games Federation Hall of Fame! Neil has represented the UK in an incredible 14 Summer games and is an inspiration to the world of transplant sport! 🤩 Go Neil! 👏 ❤️

11/08/2025

Wow…this looks cold!! 🥶 Thank you all at Stephensons Solicitors LLP for braving the ice bucket challenge to raise money for New Start, fab idea! ❤️

💦 Our Ice Bucket Challenge is in full swing! Since launching in May, plenty of brave team members have stepped up and taken the plunge, all in support of our Charity of the Year: New Start – the Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund.

A huge thank you to everyone who’s taken part so far, your support is making a real difference.

Here’s a collage of some of our fantastic team getting involved! 👏

To find out more about NewStart Charity and the life-changing work they do, please visit: www.newstartcharity.org

09/08/2025

Good luck to George and Peter who are cycling 300 miles between then on static bikes to raise money for New Start Charity. Thanks to New Start Chairman Steve Fowler who watched them set off and to Trustee Jane Nuttall encouraging them half way through the challenge 🚴

04/08/2025

Well, that’s a wrap on the epic British Transplant Games Oxford 2025!🥳

New Start is so proud to have supported our incredible Team Wythenshawe 🙌🏻 3 new patients (complete with fabulous partners and families) joined our brilliant team of competitors and supporters…we had surprise visits and new supporters…and of course an intensive schedule of sports and fun!

Drumroll please for our final medal tally……..

12 Gold 🥇
15 Silver 🥈
10 Bronze 🥉

WOW!!!!🤩 Congratulations Team Wythenshawe 👏 you are all amazing! 🌟🫁❤️

Truly inspirational…

(Here are some pics of final day🥰)