A CWMBRAN company is set to help cancer sufferer Emily Clark in her battle to find a donor and save her life.

‘We Fight Any Claim’ is holding a staff event on Monday where employees can take part in completing their ‘spit kit’ and sign up to the register.

A representative from Anthony Nolan will give their 500 staff a presentation on the procedure and Emily, 17, and her mother are also excpected to attend the event.

Simon Evans, head of communications at We Fight Any Claim said: “Having read of the appeal to help find a bone marrow donor for Emily Clark in the South Wales Argus, some of our staff here at We Fight Any Claim asked what we could do as a company to help in this important quest.

“Helping local causes and charities is something that our staff do here every week and when they learned of Emily’s plight they were immediately keen to do whatever they could to help. With this in mind we contacted Anthony Nolan to ascertain the most effective help we could give.

“We have now arranged with Anthony Nolan to have a day where our staff can sign up to the register, if they fit the criteria, and this will take place next Monday when Anthony Nolan will be at our offices, along with Emily herself.

“I am constantly left speechless by the charitable nature of our staff, who donate money and have donated time in the last year, and now they are seeking to help in the most practical way possible, and I hope that we can help Emily, and others in her situation, and I am extremely grateful to the staff that have driven this and made it happen.

“I know that all of us at We Fight Any Claim are praying for a successful match for Emily and we will do all we can to try and help that.”

Emily's mum Donna Dunn said that her daughter is ‘sleeping constantly’ following her chemo, but said it is a common result of the treatment.

“She is really struggling to keep awake,” Ms Dunn said.

“We have had a really good response to her blog, with Matt Lucas tweeting her.

“She was really shocked as they just tweeted her directly and were no sure how that started off.”

Emily needs a bone marrow transplant after she was dealt the terrible news that her cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had returned.

The South Wales Argus is helping to raise awareness of donating bone marrow and stem cells to help Emily and the 1,800 other people searching for a match in the UK.

The Welsh Blood Service said that 36 more people have signed up to the register from November 27, 28 and December 1, across mid and South Wales.

Since November 24, Antony Nolan, the UK’s blood cancer charity and bone marrow register, has reported 222 successful sign ups in the NP postcode area.

“Back in March I signed up [to the register] not knowing that Emily would need a donor, as I wanted to help someone's child,” Ms Dunn said.

“But I can’t be a donor for Emily.

“I am trying to keep the momentum going really.

“Lots of people have come up to me in the school yard say that they were going to sign up.”

Work places around Gwent are also rallying around with staff at Bron Afon Community Housing being encouraged to give blood when the Welsh Blood Service bus comes to Bron Afon on December 17 and 18.

Now Emily and her family are planning fundraising events in the New Year with the hopes of doing something musical and an afternoon tea in March.

Antony Nolan have announced that this time last year (December 1st 2013) we had 499,525 people on the register overall and today we have 551,293 people on the register.

That’s 51,768 more than last yea, but they still need more.

A spokesman said: “Currently, only 60 percent of transplant recipients receive the best possible match, and this drops dramatically to 20.5 percent if you’re from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background.

“By building and diversifying our register we will be able to provide the best match to even more people with blood cancer like Emily.”

We want our readers to join the bone marrow register to show their support, in the hope one of them will be a match for Emily.

All you have to do initially is join online, then provide a saliva sample by post.

To help Emily, if you are aged between 16 and 30 you can join the Anthony Nolan bone marrow register, and if you sign up, please tick Emily’s campaign 'Remission Possible' as a reason for joining. If you are aged between 17 and 55, you can join the Delete Blood Cancer bone marrow register.

You can read Emily's campaign blog here.

We're also backing Emily's plan to get #RemissionPossible trending on Twitter. If you register as a donor, tweet that to @RemissionPos using the hashtag.