The ME Association has made this release:

Have a Cuppa for ME - October 14

This received from Kathleen McCall, Eastleigh and Winchester ME Support Group:

As you probably know Bio-Medical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is desperately needed.

Government funding via the established research agencies is hard to access for groups wishing to research ME.

So we the M.E. Community must do something to help ourselves.

The idea is simple but brilliant (as the best ideas often are).

We are asking M.E.sufferers, individuals & Support Groups across the country, to host a Coffee Morning on October 14th or as near to that date as possible. Posters are in Word and are downloadable and of course the wording can be edited to suit your needs.

It needn't be a huge affair, if you can just manage to invite a couple of friends or neighbours in, even for half an hour.

(Get them to make the Cuppa if you are not able)

Then charge them for the privilege!

Money raised can be donated directly to your nominated research team but we would ask that you specify the money came from a "Have a Cuppa for ME" event.

We would also like to keep a running total of the money raised from this initiative so could you feedback the information directly to us?

Links to some Research sites can be found at the following websites.

Have a Cuppa for ME

Invest in ME