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Sunday May 12th 2024 is ME Awareness Day, and as part of 'Walk for ME 2024’ we are having a cake sale! Porthleven Market have very kindly given us a charity table right on Porthleven harbour head for the day, every penny raised will go to ME Research UK. This is our chance to be a voice and make this invisible illness visible, spread awareness and show our support for everyone in our communities living with M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) or, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

Please join us in any way you can to support our cake sale and our cause; any donations of cakes will be massively appreciated! As will coming along on the day if you can, and buying & eating cakes! Or just come and find us to say hi and learn more about this debilitating condition, and meet others.

If Porthleven, Cornwall, is a bit too far away, or you would love to come but are housebound, you can still support us virtually! If you can spare the cost of a coffee and a cake to donate (£5, £10 or any amount), that would be amazing! If you can't but can ask your friends and family to donate what they might spend on a coffee & cake, that would be incredible!!

Any way you can help to support our cause, even just by sharing our page, and asking others to get involved, will be helping the thousands (millions) of people living with ME, their families, friends and carers, get just one step closer to a cure.

Historically, funding and research into ME has been terribly lacking. Knowledge and understanding about the illness, even within the medical profession, is still shockingly poor, this is why biomedical research and spreading awareness is so desperately needed. Every penny raised will go straight to ME Research UK.

On behalf of everyone living with M.E. and Long Covid, Thank you. 🙏

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is a long-term (chronic), fluctuating, neurological disease that causes symptoms affecting many body systems, more commonly the nervous and immune systems.

People with M.E. experience debilitating fatigue (that doesn't get better after rest), pain, nausea, headaches, dizziness, flu like symptoms, cognitive impairment, problems with memory, and a range of other symptoms associated with post-exertional malaise, the body and brain’s inability to recover after expending even small amounts of energy.

Many people with ME cannot work or leave their homes, most have to spend most of their time resting (pacing) to try to keep their symptoms to a minimum, and some are completely bedbound.

There are currently no effective treatments and there is no known cure for M.E.

"....doctors do not treat us and science does not study us. How could a disease this common and this devastating have been forgotten by medicine?" Jennifer Brea

ME Research UK funds high quality research worldwide. For more information about this charity please go to www.meresearch.org.uk