Pembrokeshire-born, Adam Evans-Thomas devoted the last 10 years of his life to raisin awareness for the need for blood donors and bone marrow donors in the treatment of all cancers, not only leukaemia. Before he died, he raised £45,000 to test well in excess of the 3,000 blood donors from Pembrokeshire he helped put on the Welsh Blood Service Registry in Llantrisant. His work, and those of many others, mainly parents searching desperately for matches for their children, brought about the much-needed financial support from the government. With this financial support in place, Adam, never one to idle, set about raising funds for the two hospitals that lovingly cared for him during the bleak times of his illness. He wanted to extend the Day Unit on Ward 10, Withybush, and also fund an acute bed for the new Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in Wales's Teaching Hospital - the University Hospital of Wales, Cardifff. Five months before he died, he began his 'Bucketful of Hope Appeal' to raise the necessary funds for this project. His many friends and colleagues set about fund-raising in all sorts of ways to help realise his wish. Following his death, the Blood Service, for whom he did so much, along with Withybush Hospital Trust and Texaco have stepped in to assist his family and friends in bringing this ambitious project to fruition. These organisations are supporting a 'Festival Day' which they have called 'Adam's Festival of Hope'. The Blood Service will mount the most ambitious education drive aimed at the future generation of donors by inviting all the schools in Pembrokeshire to partake in the day's music, drama and dance events. Along with a 'Proms in the Park' afternoon of choirs, brass bands and groups, there will be a rock concert with celebrities in the evening. The Blood Service will be collecting blood and bone marrow donor samples during the day and details of new recruits in a bid to reach their target of 5,000 new donors on the register (5,000 more chances of a match for some cancer victims more fortunate than Adam in the future!). The money raised by this year's ongoing fund-raising and the 'Festival Day' extravaganza will go to the extension of the Day Unit, Withybush Hospital and an acute bed (called the Pembrokeshire Bed) for Cardiff. The target set to fund this ambitious project is £250,000. The 'Festival Day' will be the culmination of a year's fund-raising activities and will be held on the Carew Pavilion site on Saturday, July 16, 2005. The 50-acre site boasts 14 acres of hard-standing and a large pavilion that can hold 4,800 people. It is envisaged that the day will be a cross between the County Show/Red Nose Day and a 'Pembokeshire Proms in the Park' spectacular. There will be stands and displays from the medical professions, as well as an Army display, hovercrafts, a professional climbing wall with harnesses; brass bands, rock and jazz groups, choirs, street theatre, a radio roadshow, beer tents, food halls, a fun fair and many more attractions. Over 400 donors and recipients will be invited and many will be interviewed throughout the day to make this the biggest fund-raising and Blood Service recruitment event ever staged in Pembrokeshire. With a year of fund-raising culminating in 'Adam's Festival of Hope', it is hoped that Pembrokeshire will lead the way forward to raising the staggering amount of £250,000 for their new Day Unit, an acute bed in Cardiff and 5,000 new names on the Welsh Blood and Bone Marrow Registry. This is no ordinary charity event. The aim of this event is to save lives!