Every year we're honoured to support the incredible men and women who take on the world famous London Marathon as part of team Action for M.E.

Many of our runners have personal experience of the debilitating, life stealing reality of M.E. and as a result have chosen to stand up, raise awareness and help us create real change.

This deserves to be celebrated and we’d like to invite you to show your support and give thanks to our London Marathon 2018 team.  

What we're fundraising for 

You can read our team’s personal stories on the their pages, listed to the right, but there is one thing that unites them and all the team at Action for M.E.  

We know that change is needed for people with M.E.  

Imagine having months off from work because you are so ill, so struck by fatigue and pain, that you are no longer able to tell the time when you look at the face of a clock. Imagine you can no longer read even the shortest paragraph because your power of concentration is reduced to zero.

That is the experience of many thousands of people with the chronic neurological condition myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.), sometimes diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, or M.E./CFS), which affects around 250,000 people in the UK.

There is currently no cure for M.E., no proven treatment and a severe lack of support for those affected. This is the reality Action for M.E. is working to change.

To do this we need to raise awareness of the realities of M.E. among the public, decision makers and medical professionals. We need to continue to ensure a lifeline of tailored support and information is available for those affected and we need to continue pushing for more services and high quality biomedical research.

When you see an Action for M.E. vest among the thousands of runners taking part on 22 April 2018, know that this is what they’re running for.

Join us, and together we can stop M.E. stealing lives.