Its providing Safe Blood and Blood Components, treatment to Thalassaemia and Haemophilia Patients, Education of Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine and Diagnostic Services.
In April 2006, South Otago High School became the first New Zealand school to run a Jeans for Genes day in aid of the Haemophilia Foundation of New Zealand.
A sample of his blood was sent to the Oxford Haemophilia Centre in Oxford, where Rosemary Biggs and R.G. McFarlane discovered that he was not deficient in Factor VIII, which is normally decreased in classic haemophilia, but a different protein, which received the name Christmas factor in his honour (and later Factor IX).