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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!

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ME Research UK

ME Research UK

Charity Registration No. SCIO - SC036942

ME Research UK funds high-quality biomedical investigation into the causes and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). This illness affects approximately 200,000 people in the UK but is neither well understood nor, in many cases, properly recognised.

Donations 309

Donation by Bx on 05/06/09

£4.00

+ £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation by D L on 04/06/09

£2.00

Can't the government or Lottery Fund at least match every pound donated?

Donation by Andrew Alton on 04/06/09

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

I saved £20 by making my own cards according to this week's moneysaving tip on the blog so I'm donating a fiver to each charity.

Donation by Sasha on 04/06/09

£5.00

+ £1.41 Gift Aid

Thank you for high quality scientific research into ME

Donation by Yvonne Foss on 03/06/09

£4.00

+ £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation for week 4

Donation by Rachel Groves - RachelCreative on 02/06/09

£4.00

Donation by Limee on 29/05/09

£4.00

+ £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation by Lynne Duddy on 28/05/09

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

a new donation

Donation by jeremy bearman on 28/05/09

£4.00

Donation by David Bartram on 27/05/09

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

For Rhona

Donation by Linsey Denholm on 27/05/09

£5.00

+ £1.41 Gift Aid

Donation by Rhona Martin on 27/05/09

£2.00

+ £0.56 Gift Aid

I've saved money this week, through a lack of my usual helpers. You're wlecome to a share of it.

Donation by Serena on 27/05/09

£15.00

+ £4.23 Gift Aid

Brilliant idea !!

Donation by Paul Kayes on 26/05/09

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

Keep up the good work Vance

Donation by Antoinette Christie on 25/05/09

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

a new day a new donation

Donation by jeremy bearman on 24/05/09

£4.00

another donation to help

Donation by jeremy bearman on 23/05/09

£8.00

Donation by Janine Parry on 22/05/09

£10.00

great idea we need everyone to contribute

Donation by Jeremy Bearman on 22/05/09

£4.00

Donation by Keith Kahn-Harris on 20/05/09

£8.00

+ £2.26 Gift Aid

A great idea!

Donation by Margaret Jolly on 20/05/09

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

ME needs bio medical research

Donation by Liz H on 19/05/09

£10.00

+ £2.82 Gift Aid

This is a brilliant idea - good luck with it!

Donation by Serena on 18/05/09

£20.00

+ £5.64 Gift Aid

Please spread the word to raise this much needed cash for proper bio medical research into ME

Donation by Hels on 18/05/09

£4.00

+ £1.13 Gift Aid

Great working with you!

Donation by Faisel on 18/05/09

£4.00

+ £1.13 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£3,892.50
  • Offline donations£0.00
  • Text donations£0.00
  • Total raised£3,892.50
  • Gift Aid£695.54

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