MEA and The Big Give

Our CHRISTMAS APPEAL begins on December 6

On Thursday December 6 the ME Association begins its annual Christmas Appeal and we ask you to look kindly upon us and help out this year.

If you've ever known your doctor to challenge the reality of your ME or not want to help you with a diagnosis, then you ll know what our  Telling GPs the Truth about ME  appeal is about.

We re going online to launch our BIG GIVE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE on December 6 to raise money so that we can post out our MEA clinical guidance booklet to as many GPs as possible.

And if you can get online as close to 10am on December 6, 7 or 8 (Thursday to Saturday) you have the best chance of seeing your donation doubled in value through the unique  matched funding pot  set up by the Big Give organisation.

This has already been topped up in advance by MEA pledgers and our charity champion,  Candis  magazine. If all goes well, the plan is that a third of the matched funding will be released each of those first three days.

We re aiming to post out thousands of copies of next year s updated version of the booklet    ME/CFS/PVFS: an Exploration of the Key Clinical Issues . The better our Appeal is supported, the more copies we can send out.

The booklet   for those for who don t know it already   explains why so many people with ME stay so ill and for so long and what doctors can do within the bounds of existing knowledge to help them.

But don t worry if you can t get online at around 10am on those first three days because the appeal will stay open until 5pm on Wednesday December 19.

Here s a link to The Big Give fundraising page.

Miriam