A Charity Christmas Gift for ME

For an easy way to request a donation to Invest in ME for Christmas send this link to Santa Claus, or add it to your Wish List..

This Christmas, I am supporting a very important and worthy cause.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a multi-system neurological disease.  Anyone of any age can get ME, including very young children. Some are so severely-affected that they cannot speak, swallow or even sit up in bed.  There is no cure.  The severity can vary and fluctuate over time but full recovery is rare.  There is no medical test for ME and a large number of people are misdiagnosed. This all needs to change.

My Christmas Wish this year is to help the UK charity Invest in ME (charity number 1114035) to raise £100,000 towards biomedical research at a centre in UK where patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis may be correctly diagnosed and participate in studies using the latest scientific thinking and most advanced technology in the hope of finding a cure for ME.

Thank you for helping by donating a Christmas Gift for ME!

Please click here for ways to Donate.

* Remember to tick the Gift Aid box or use the Gift Aid form if you're a UK taxpayer so that Invest in ME can claim an extra 25% of the amount you donate from the government!*

To tell someone you have made a gift donation in their name you may like to send this note.

"Let's do it for ME!" is a patient driven campaign in support of Invest in ME and is run in close cooperation with the charity.  Everyone involved with Invest in ME performs their work for free and all funds raised for this cause go to the Invest in ME biomedical research fund.

Please see our main website for full details and ways to help.

The LDIFME 2011 Xmas logo is a re-working of the LDIFME logo using a snowflake design by Chris Spooner.

Big Thank You!

Photo of Jan with dad Duncan taken at her
brother's wedding in 2006 (prior to Jan relapsing)

We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Duncan Laverick who has kindly donated money given to him at his recent well deserved retirement from SABIC (formerly ICI) at Wilton, Teesside. That's both the gift from colleagues and friends along with the company gift he received - a total of £370 plus gift aid of £92.50 giving a grand total of £462.50 towards Let's do it for ME / Invest in ME and the biomedical research centre at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Duncan served ICI / SABIC all of his working life in Research and Development in the Wilton Centre and latterly on Olefines 6 on the Wilton site.
We wish him a long, happy and healthy retirement and again thank him for his generous donation towards this much needed research.

Now some of you will have spotted the same surname as our own Super Jan! Yes it's her Dad (I won't write what she said about him!).

Jan has kindly let me (Paul Kayes) write this short thank you as she is in relapse at present and not well enough to do it herself. Maybe because I too worked at ICI Wilton for 27 years of my working life.

Jan Laverick and Jo Best are the two main instigators of the Let's do it for ME Campaign and work (I was going to say tirelessly) for the cause...however as many will know, campaigning is not without its payback for people with M.E. in terms of health. Despite their limitations, they do a fantastic job on behalf of all of us sufferers.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Many thanks to everyone who has joined us in supporting Invest in ME's plan to establish the first UK centre for biomedical research and treatment and wishing you all a peaceful, joyful Christmas.

A big thank-you to all those who have so generously given of their time and talents during this season of goodwill by making, donating proceeds from, and buying greetings cards and calendars, handmade gifts and decorations, gifts from our on-line shops, and raising funds for free when searching the web and shopping on-line, as shown in our post Christmas Gifts 4 ME!

So far you have helped us raise £24,656 for Invest in ME and the UK centre!

There is still time to make a Christmas Gift Donation to our festive fundraising page Gift4ME - which will remain open up to 31st December.

You can now also Donate By Text:

Text IBRF33 and either £2, £5 or £10 to 70070
e.g. IBRF33 £5

All the very best,

Let's do it for ME!