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GALAXY HOT CHOCOLATE FUND – Let’s Do It Again!

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UPDATE: You did it! Well done and big thanks. Invest in ME posted:
“We are proud to announce that Invest in ME is among the winners of the Galaxy Hot Chocolate voting competition. Thank you to all our supporters who voted and promoted this fundraising.”

Every week, until February 28 2016, Galaxy Hot Chocolate is looking to help local community groups and charities across the UK and Ireland by awarding five £300 cash awards a week. (click here to vote for Invest in ME Research).

Four of these will be awarded by their judges’ panel. There will also be a People’s Choice Award every week which will be awarded to the entry with the most votes in any given week.

Invest in ME Research was a winner of the People’s Choice Award last year thanks to a week of concerted voting inspired by Anne Örtegren.

The winners are selected on Monday each week.

Entries and votes are taken up to 11:59pm each Sunday, and voting for the next week starts at midnight. One vote per email address per week so no daily voting.

As Russell Logan says on his great site ‘Shout About ME’, it doesn’t cost anything so it’s a great way to support the little charity we all love.

It would be great to win again this year, so on our marks from midnight Sunday 6th December and please share widely through the week. Thank you!

Vote here – https://www.galaxyhotchocolate.com/fund/profiles/invest-in-me

DOUBLE DONATIONS – BIG GIVE – BIG CAUSE

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UPDATE: We’re off! Be quick to have your donations to Invest in ME matched by the Big Give Christmas Challenge. Ends 5pm Monday 14th December.

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Your donations will be doubled by the ‘matching pot’ – a combination of Big Give Champion funds and pledges made by supporters in October. Donations (minimum £5 per donor) may be made from any country but must be made online using one of these debit/credit cards: Mastercard / Visa / Maestro / Switch / Solo / Delta / American Express.

UK tax-payers may also add Gift Aid to their donations.

Match funding is available on a first-come first served basis until 5pm on 14th December unless the matching amount is reached before then.

The Invest in ME Project to be funded by the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2015 is called ‘Intercalating Medical Students in ME Research’.

This project will attract and fund two fourth year medical students to participate in biomedical research into the neurological disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in research projects being funded by the charity.

Invest in ME have long held the view that education is a key part of the eventual discovery of the cause(s) of myalgic encephalomyelitis and have supported students over the years in many ways (see Invest in ME research and students).

The charity has had great success with their two recent intercalating fourth year medical students – Navena Navaneetharaja and Bharat Harbham. Navena spent over three months at Cornell University in New York with Professor Maureen Hanson and Bharat has been working under the guidance of Professor Angela Vincent in Oxford University.

Navena and Bharat have been of great help to the IIME-funded PhD student Daniel Vipond and all this work underpins the next phases of the charity’s strategy. So Invest in ME were pleased to announce that their Big Give project to fund two more intercalating medical students from UEA Medical School to participate in ME related research had been accepted for the Big Give Christmas Challenge.

Donate here: https://secure.thebiggive.org.uk/donation/to/6239/24084/

More about the project: https://secure.thebiggive.org.uk/projects/view/24084

Medical & PhD Students at IIMEC10 May 2015
Medical & PhD Students at IIMEC10 May 2015

Big thanks to ..

* Big Give Champion – Candis Magazine/Candis Foundation

* Big Give Pledgers – see October blog.

* Invest in ME for their vision and hard work on their Big Cause.

* Big Give Matching Donors.

* Big thanks everyone supporting this innovative and important project – please share widely to help spread the word. Let’s Do It for ME!

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1st December – Giving Tuesday

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Giving Tuesday is a growing worldwide movement. Please support our cause on this International Day of Giving. You can give your voice, your time, or a donation to Invest in ME Research. Donations to the charity may be made online, by text, by PayPal, Bank Transfer, Cheque. You can donate to a specific project or to the general Biomedical Research Fund. Every £1 counts at Invest in ME Research – the small charity run entirely by volunteers making great progress.

Gift Aid is an extra 25% of your donation from the government if you are a UK tax-payer, so please tick the Gift Aid box when you donate if this applies to you.

WAYS TO DONATE ON GIVING TUESDAY

JustTextGiving (UK)

Text APFR99

£1-£5 or £10

to 70070

You can add your name and Gift Aid if eligible by text.

JustGiving
(any country, any amount from £2)

One Day – One Pound
(text donations add to the total raised on this page).

PayPal

To: paypal@investinme.org

Bank Transfer

Bank: Lloyds TSB Eastleigh

Sorting code: 30-92-94

Account number: 02252685

Bank Transfer from outside the UK

IBAN: GB63 Loyd 3092 9402 2526 85

BIC/SWIFT: LOYDGB21209

Cheque

Send cheques payable to ‘Invest in ME’ to:

Invest in ME
PO Box 561,
Eastleigh,
Hampshire,
SO50 0GQ

(add Gift Aid to your donation with Invest in ME’s Gift Aid form)



Please help spread the word ..

Let’s Do it for ME is a patient-driven campaign launched in 2011 in support of the proposal by independent UK charity Invest in ME (Research) to establish a centre of excellence for translational research and patient care based around Norwich Research Park in East Anglia; the first of its kind in UK/Europe and in collaboration with other leading UK and international biomedical researchers.

We help to raise funds for the biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis that the charity is organising and/or funding in their development of the centre of excellence. Our crowdfunding for specific ME research is the first of its kind in UK and has inspired similar projects in Europe and USA. We have now helped to raise over £600,000 for the IIME Research strategy to develop and are aiming for £1,000,000.

The current focus of the research is on the role of the immune system, including infection and autoimmunity. Two major research projects are on the role of the gut microbiome and research on B-cells leading to a UK clinical treatment trial of rituximab.

Invest in ME Research is run entirely by volunteers who either have ME or are parents and carers of ME patients. They are driving the agenda of scientific research into diagnostic tests and treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis in UK in collaboration with international researchers of world renown.

Thank you for your support.

Let’s Do It for ME!
ldifme.org

in support of Invest in ME (Research)
investinme.org

Invest in ME International Conference & Biomedical Researchers Colloquium
investinme.eu

IIME B-cell / Rituximab Research
ukrituximabtrial.org

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