More than 100 people gathered at an event at Boxpark Croydon last weekend and signed up to the bone marrow donor register in hope of helping to save the life of a local man.

56-year-old Delroy Anglin, who found reality TV fame on Channel 5’s Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Leukaemia earlier this year.

Acute myeloid Leukaemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer that starts from young white blood cells called granulocytes or monocytes in the bone marrow.

Although Anglin has been receiving chemotherapy, he is in need of a bone marrow transplant in order to cure his cancer.

A glib is of Afro-Caribbean descent which means finding a match is difficult, as numbers of ethnic minorities on the donor list is very low.

However, on Saturday the Croydon community stepped up, with more than 100 people registering in just two hours, in a specific drive for the Afro – Caribbean community to sign up.

A page for Anglin has been set up on aclt.org for people to register online to become a stem cell donor.

On the page Anglin said: “It’s going to be difficult to find me a perfect matched donor unless we have a lot more Caribbean and African people on the register.  It takes 15 minutes to register and is almost painless to donate.  I want to beat this illness, but I will only be able to do so, with the help of the Caribbean and African community.”

“I am requesting for more people of Caribbean and African heritage to join the register to help me and others like me.”

To find out how to join the stem cell register, click here.