Raising a cup to raise awareness of ME
Drink Up! Welcome to the Have a Cuppa for ME page
Invest in ME initiated the Have a Cuppa for ME mornings - the first being held in November 2005.
Our supporters have suggested we restart this and so we are hoping to get lots of support for holding Have a Cuppa events to raise awareness of ME and funds for Invest in ME Research's research funds.
Use the following links to get more information, plan or attend an event, or see what ese is going on with Have A Cuppa For ME.
Invitation cards like the one on the right can be ordered from Invest in ME Research to help in organising your event.
#HaveACuppaforME
About HACFME
The easy way to raise funds for biomedical research into ME. We ask supporters and friends to host their own Have a Cuppa Mornings and donations on the day are made to Invest in ME Research. One hundred HACFME events raising £500 would potentially fund a new three year research project.
Read MoreHOST A HACFME
Hosting and arranging a HACFME event need not be difficult. It can match whatever one is able to do - whether it is a small gathering of friends and family or neighbours, to events on a local community level, to school teacher breaks and even in offices where team meetings or after noon breaks can be dedicated to raising awareness of ME and funds for Invest in ME Research's biomedical research projects.
Read MoreLet Everyone Know
We can help you to publicise your event or show others what you are doing.
Use social media - before and after the event - to describe the event.
Use local media also - every piece of publicity helps raise awareness of the true nature of this disease
and what we, together, are doing about fixing it.
Find a HACFME
Invite people. Friends, family, colleagues, neighbours. Invite them all with a lovely, easy e-invite. You can also get the word out by sharing your event on Facebook.
Read MoreAny Questions?
Answers to some of the common questions about HACFME events may be found using the link below.
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Invest in ME Research is an independent UK charity facilitating
and funding a strategy of biomedical research into Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) and promoting better
education about ME.
The charity is run by volunteers - patients or parents of
children with ME. No salaries, no government funding, but wonderful supporters who have enabled us to change the direction of research into ME in the UK and Europe.
Where is HACFME
Look at the map.
Click on the map below to find more details of HACFME events
Plan Your
Have a Cuppa for ME Event
Invest in ME Research
Get in Touch With Us
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If you have any questions regarding the conference then please contact us by email and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you for your interest in the charity.
The Office
- Address: Invest in ME Research
PO Box 561 Eastleigh SO50 0GQ Hampshire, UK - Phone: 02380 643736 / 07759 349743
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- Centre of Excellence for ME:
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Invest in ME Research - an independent UK charity
Finding, facilitating and funding research into ME
Make Tea for ME
Biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is desperately needed.
Government funding via the established research agencies is difficult to obtain for research groups wishing to research ME. This is why Invest in ME Research works hard to address this problem.
The charity set about changing that by adapting the coffee mornings, long established as fundraising methods for other medical conditions, and initiated the Have a Cuppa for ME mornings.
The first Have a Cuppa for ME was held in November 2005.
We asked individuals and Support Groups across the country to host a Tea (or Coffee) Morning.
Use the How To description on these pages to assist you or your family or friends to hold a Have a Cuppa event.
We can help supply information about ME and publicise the event - before or after it has taken place.
ME Information Centre
Follow these tips
- Invite everyone
- Add to our map
- Send invitations
- Use social media to announce and publicise the event
- Download our poster
- Check the FAQs
- Set up you BT My Donate, Just Giving or similar fundraising pages
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Decide date and time of the event.
Find the best time of day that suits you and those whom you will invite.
Decide on the duration for the event.
Use the aids supplied here. These include -
- Customised poster - take a copy by clicking on the image to the right.
Then modify it for your event. - Informational aids from IiMER - supplied by the charity on request.
- Invitation cards (available from IiMER)
Set up a BT My Donate or a Just Giving page
to help collect donations and track them.
Use our gift aid forms for those making donations by cheque.
Consider publicising the event on facebook (maybe via a special event page) and/or Twitter.
Use Twitter hashtag #HaveACuppaforME
Contact us to let us know you are planning an event and any ways we can help with publicity or fundraising aids.
We can add your event to the events map.
Remember - It need not 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).
Ask friends, family or local firms & businesses to get involved, maybe they could hold "Cuppa for M.E." Tea/Coffee breaks at work.
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Follow these tips
- Invite everyone via email
- Contact us to add your event to our map
- Send invitations - use our HACFME postcards (order from Invest in ME Research)
- Use social media to announce and publicise the event
- Download our poster and customise it
- Check the FAQs for any remaining questions
- Set up your BT My Donate, Just Giving or similar fundraising pages
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