CALL centre workers in the region have joined a life-saving campaign.

People working at the Orange Communications Centre in Darlington are signing up to register their tissue type as part of a drive by the Anthony Nolan Trust.

The Trust will visit the company on Monday to take samples from workers who have volunteered to go on the register of bone marrow donors.

Tissue types will be recorded and held on a computer register to be used to match against people requiring stem cell transplants.

When a patient is referred to the register their tissue type is checked against every donor listed to see if there is a suitable match.

"We are only too pleased to be able to help," said Karen Ingham, head of the Orange Communications Centre.

"All of the staff taking part are doing so voluntarily and their actions could hold the key to saving someone else's life either now or in the future."

The Anthony Nolan Trust was set up 30 years ago by Shirley Nolan in an attempt to save her son's life.

Sadly, Anthony died five years later aged seven with no donor found.

Today the Trust is the world's largest independent register of potential blood stem cell donors with 250,000 people on the register, dealing with 6,000 search requests each year.