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“Just Four Quid” is a campaign to raise money for biomedical research into the neuro-immune disease ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Every week for a year until May 2010, the Just Four Quid daily blog is offering a moneysaving tip so that you can donate part of your saving to research. For example, if you save a tenner you might donate a fiver!

 

The campaign supports two research charities – ME Research UK and the ME Association’s Ramsay Research Fund – who fund biomedical research into the causes, effects and possible treatments of ME/CFS. This page is for communal donations to ME Research UK; we have a similar JustGiving page for the Ramsay Research Fund and many people also have set up their own Just Four Quid campaign pages on JustGiving. You can find links to all the JustGiving pages and our weekly-updated grand total raised from all our JustGiving pages plus offline donations on the blogsite.

 

The UK government has not yet funded biomedical research into ME/CFS and between them, UK ME/CFS research charities last year only received £0.4 million in donations. Yet if all 250,000 with the diagnosis in the UK put in “just four quid” we’d have a million! Cancer Research UK alone had £465 million in donations last year, over a thousand times the sum that ME/CFS charities received. This is why cancer treatment is improving and people with ME/CFS are still waiting!

 

Please join in and tell everyone you know about the campaign. Let’s all give as much as we can afford and let’s get better! Please donate now!

Donation by Anonymous 18/11/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

To help all those who suffer Donation by Sue Rimmington 18/11/09  

£24.00 + £6.77 Gift Aid

As ever, just grateful to have so many friends here and abroad who keep in touch---so another donation in appreciation of good friends. Donation by Fiona Taylor 18/11/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Thanks for the introduction on to this site Fiona and good luck with the campaign Donation by Carroll Finnie 17/11/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Donation by MICHELLE COULTER 14/11/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

It's a fantastic idea. xx Donation by Kristen Michaels 12/11/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Added a quid to make it five quid, just in case Paypal added a wee charge... :) Donation by Ray Smillie 11/11/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Didn't go for a coffee after work today so I'm donating what I've saved here. Good luck! Donation by Sophie 10/11/09  

£3.00 + £0.85 Gift Aid

For Ri with love xxx Donation by Lowl 10/11/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation by Katharine Ross 09/11/09  

£4.00

Great idea and thank you for your hard work in doing this x Donation by Lucy Reed 09/11/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

4 more Donation by David Woodcock 06/11/09  

£4.00

Donation by Yvonne Foss 05/11/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Another monthly instalment----keep up the good work, Fiona Donation by GeorgeTaylor 05/11/09  

For everyone with ME and the XMRV breakthrough. Donation by Richie 04/11/09  

£20.00

Donation by * 01/11/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

Thank YOU for this brilliant idea, well organised too. Congratulations. Together we will beat this Donation by Mary Stow 29/10/09  

Donation by Michelle Tasker 28/10/09  

£5.00

This is a fantastic way to raise money for much-needed biomedical research. Thank you to all concerned for your hard work xx Donation by Wendy Vincent 28/10/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous 28/10/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

Just back from Arizona--wonderful sunshine---good for me and my ME--maybe fit enough for South Africa next year! Donation by Fiona Taylor 25/10/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

As we can see from the WPI,private funding for research can work! (XMRV)Please give what you can. Donation by harry burg 23/10/09  

£15.00 + £4.23 Gift Aid

Yeh, I too am surprised the total is as low as it is - where is everyone? Well folks, spread the word and carry on giving what we can. Donation by Sue Howley 21/10/09  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

With thanks Donation by Yvonne Foss 20/10/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Let's hope they find a cure soon! Donation by Kate O'Riordan 18/10/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation by jeremy bearman 16/10/09  

£35.00

Donation by Daniel Annenberg 16/10/09  

£4.00

Help m.e now Donation by Debbie Hare 15/10/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous 15/10/09  

£4.00 + £1.13 Gift Aid

Here's to hoping the government will soon put their hands in their pockets and start financing the much needed biophysical research into M.E./CFS Donation by Susan 14/10/09  

£10.00
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* Total raised online: £2,099.50
  Offline donations: £0.00
  Gift Aid plus supplement: £421.95

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