Friday, 15 January 2010
February Meeting
On Tuesday February 2nd at 1.45pm in the Quaker rooms Beccles, we will be having a talk by POhWER ICAS (Independent Complaints Advocacy Service), they help people who make complaints against the NHS.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
December Meeting
The next meeting is on Tuesday December 1st in the Quaker Rooms Beccles, when we will be having a Christmas Meal and our annual photo competition. The meal is 12.45 for 1.00pm start with the photo competition at approx 2.00pm
Thursday, 17 September 2009
October Meeting
The next meeting is on Tuesday October 6th at 1.45pm in the Quaker Rooms, Beccles. We will be having a talk by two O/Ts from the ME Service.
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
August Meeting
The august meeting will take place in the Quaker Rooms, Beccles on Tuesday August 4th at 1.45pm. This will be a social gathering.
Monday, 4 May 2009
'Just Four Quid'
'Save a lot, give a little' – as charities launch £1m appeal for ME research.
Two charities are launching a recession-busting campaign to raise £1,000,000 for biomedical research into the much-misunderstood illness ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
ME Research UK and the ME Association have joined forces in the `Just Four Quid' campaign which will use the internet to encourage donors to take advantage of weekly money-saving tips, and then give some of the money they save to the appeal.
The campaign will begin on 12 May 2009 – International ME Awareness Day – and last for a full year. It will be run through a credit-crunching daily blog atwww.justfourquid.com
"If all 250,000 people in the UK with ME/CFS gave just £4 to the appeal we'd reach the £1,000,000 target in next to no time. But nothing is ever that simple", said Tony Britton, publicity manager at the ME Association.
"So we've designed this blog to help people save money on everything from their utility bills to their haircuts in the hope that, once they've saved a little, they'll give some of it back."
"Of course, we'll always welcome straightforward donations. People visiting the blog can choose to support either charity, or both".
Inspired partly by the journalism of personal finance guru Martin Lewis, the "save a lot, give a bit back" approach could well become a model for charity appeals in these troubled times.
The Charity Commission has reported a fall in many charities' donations as the recession bites. But the `Just Four Quid' Appeal aims to buck the trend by leaving participants better off by the end of the year – even though they've given little and often to the campaign.
www.justfourquid. com
"It's always been a bone of contention among people with the illness that the big medical research bodies have put far too much money into studying psychological interventions for ME/CFS", added Dr Neil Abbot, operations director at ME Research UK.
" 'Just Four Quid' aims to give ordinary people the chance to swing the pendulum back to much-needed physical research into the nature and causes of ME – and help bring forward the day when there are reliable diagnostic tests and even a cure for this illness".
Two charities are launching a recession-busting campaign to raise £1,000,000 for biomedical research into the much-misunderstood illness ME/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
ME Research UK and the ME Association have joined forces in the `Just Four Quid' campaign which will use the internet to encourage donors to take advantage of weekly money-saving tips, and then give some of the money they save to the appeal.
The campaign will begin on 12 May 2009 – International ME Awareness Day – and last for a full year. It will be run through a credit-crunching daily blog atwww.justfourquid.com
"If all 250,000 people in the UK with ME/CFS gave just £4 to the appeal we'd reach the £1,000,000 target in next to no time. But nothing is ever that simple", said Tony Britton, publicity manager at the ME Association.
"So we've designed this blog to help people save money on everything from their utility bills to their haircuts in the hope that, once they've saved a little, they'll give some of it back."
"Of course, we'll always welcome straightforward donations. People visiting the blog can choose to support either charity, or both".
Inspired partly by the journalism of personal finance guru Martin Lewis, the "save a lot, give a bit back" approach could well become a model for charity appeals in these troubled times.
The Charity Commission has reported a fall in many charities' donations as the recession bites. But the `Just Four Quid' Appeal aims to buck the trend by leaving participants better off by the end of the year – even though they've given little and often to the campaign.
www.justfourquid. com
"It's always been a bone of contention among people with the illness that the big medical research bodies have put far too much money into studying psychological interventions for ME/CFS", added Dr Neil Abbot, operations director at ME Research UK.
" 'Just Four Quid' aims to give ordinary people the chance to swing the pendulum back to much-needed physical research into the nature and causes of ME – and help bring forward the day when there are reliable diagnostic tests and even a cure for this illness".
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
AGM May12th
The AGM of the Beccles & District ME/CFS Support Group will take place on Tuesday May 12th at 1.45pm, in the Quaker Rooms Beccles.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
April Meeting
The next meeting is on Tuesday April 7th at 1.45pm in the Quaker Rooms, Beccles, when we will be having a talk on Crystal Healing.
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