Well done to Invest In ME who are this month’s Cause of the Month and win a £200 donation from Viking. Watch this space for details of the next Cause of the Month competition.
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Please take a moment to vote for one the good causes on our shortlist this month – the cause with the most votes fairly cast at noon on 30th September will win a £200 donation from the fantastic folk at Viking .
Thanks to everyone who nominated this month and big thanks to Viking for continuining to help us support good causes.
Vote for the Cause of the Month for September
- Invest in ME (51%, 153 Votes)
- Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme (29%, 88 Votes)
- Monsters Wheelchair Fund (9%, 26 Votes)
- MS Research (4%, 11 Votes)
- Great Yarmouth Salvation Army Kids Club (2%, 7 Votes)
- 2nd Rossendale Scout Group/Band (2%, 5 Votes)
- Montys Corner (2%, 5 Votes)
- Ysgol Hafodwenog (Hafodwenog School) (2%, 5 Votes)
- Wheels for Wellbeing (1%, 2 Votes)
- Nightline Association (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 302
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About the causes
Wheels for Wellbeing helps anyone and everyone get on a bike and campaigns to increase the profile of disabled cyclists.
Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme provide German Shepherd guide dogs to blind people and raise awareness of blindness, differing abilities and dog welfare in the community.
MS Research Training and Education Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects young people, its progress is relentless and most will have some level of disability by the age of 30. MS Research wants to see more research to prevent disability and to help find a cure.
2nd Rossendale Scout Group/Band are based in Bacup in Lancashire and are one of the few scout bands left. The band provides facilities for children to learn to play and free lessons and mentoring from older members of the band.
Nightline Association provide a confidential listening, emotional support, information and supplies service, run by students for students at their university. They work to improve student mental health and well-being.
Monty’s Corner is a community support site sponsored by Childhood Cancer Prevention Research and supports children going through cancers treatments and their parents. September is the international childhood cancers awareness month.
Invest in ME is an an independent UK charity campaigning for bio-medical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.).
Ysgol Hafodwenog PTA Hafodwenog School is a small rural school desperately hanging onto small community life in a low income community. 45 children would benefit greatly from winning this month.
Great Yarmouth Salvation Army Kids Club offers 3 venues where young people from the ages of 5 to 24 can hang out in a safe enviroment.
Monsters Wheelchair Fund Monsters Flyball Team are going to raise £12,000 to purchase Hollie Byrnes an All-terrain wheelchair. This will enable Hollie and her Dogs for the Disabled Assistance dog Hilton to safely access more than just flat surfaces and will also enable Hollie and Hilton to compete at all flyball venues throughout the year along with their Monster teammates!
Pathfinder dogs, giving freedom to blind and partially sighted people, an amazing cause, please give them the recognition they deserve.
Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme (a.k.a Pathfinder Dogs) raises and trains German Shepherds as guides for blind people.
Thanks to those who chose to shortlist us this month and I hope that many will support us.
I would like to wish good success to the other shortlisted organisations who
are also worthy of support and provide important services and support to people too.
Eddie O’Donnell
Director
Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme
I would like to nominate the PATHFINDER GUIDE DOG PROGRAMME, based in Scotland. This very small charity trains, provides and maintains German Shepherd dogs as guides to blind people throughout the UK – currently there are dogs working with their blind partners (of which I am one), in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each dog costs the charity £36,000 to train and maintain for life – the cost to the blind handler is a mere £1. Pathfinder Dogs exclusively train German Shepherd dogs as there is an established demand and marked shortage of this breed in the guiding dog community, as established by a survey of guide dog owners. The founder, Anne Royle, is blind herself, a Pathfinder Guide Dog handler, and dedicates 100% of her time and effort right across the UK to the work of Pathfinder Guide Dogs. The charity is completely independent of any other organisation, and relies entirely on donations to continue it’s work. Without Pathfinder Dogs, I would not have my mobility, nor would I have the incredibly faithful and close companion I do have. More info about the charity can be found at http://www.pathfinderdogs.org
Please vote for Monsters Wheelchair Fund. They are rasising money for a very special girl to get a new wheelchair so that she can be both safe and more independent. She currently struggles with her wheelchair which is only suitable for very flat ground and isn’t even capable of getting her and her assistance dog down to the local corner shop! As she approaches her 18th birthday she is longing to be more independent like other teenagers and is currently restricted by her current wheelchair. Raising this money and buying Hollie a new wheelchair would make a huge difference to the life of a very lovely young lady and her fabulous assistance dog who longs to go on the beach with his mum.
We need to raise £12,000 so the prize would really help us on our way.
Thank you x
Invest In ME please for biomedical research
I vote for this group
Please support Invest in ME(IiME). They are fundraising to create the first centre of excellence in M.E. at Norwich reseach park (University of East Anglia). ME as resulted in tens of thousands of people often previously very active workers being consined to being house & bedbound for years. Give these people hope by voting for Invest in MEs quality Biomedical research which utilises the humone genome research facility at Norwich. Currently there is no objective test & cure for this devastation illness.We hope to raise £100,000.
Thank you from John Coleman x
Please vote again for Invest in ME
Please vote for Invest in ME. It could mean finding a cure for the 250,000 sufferers in the UK who have no hope right now apart from the dream of a research centre being proposed by Invest in ME. thank you
My vote goes to Invest in ME please.
Invest in ME was set up in 2005 and is run by a small team of sufferers of the neuro-immune disease myalgic encephalomyelitis and their parents/carers with the aim of raising awareness of the need for biomedical research that will lead to a better understanding and treatment of this poorly-understood disease.
Invest in ME receives no government funding and is run entirely by volunteers with no salaried staff, keeping all costs to a bare minimum so that every penny possible goes directly on helping to make changes for the better for people with M.E. They do a huge amount of work that goes unsung.
Their priority at the moment is to set up a centre for biomedical ME research and treatment – the first of its kind in UK and indeed Europe – and they need all the support they can get to fund this. Approximately 250,000 people in UK have ME, 25% who are so severely affected that some cannot move, speak or swallow, and 10% who are children, yet there are no publicly-funded projects to help get them the treatment they need.
Thank you for your support.
Please support this worthy cause, without this organisation many people would miss out on the mobility they deserve. Give folk a chance of freedom.
Invest in ME is a wonderful charity.
They have a conference every year in London that is one of the very few places patients can get factual, scientific information about M.E and meet some of the scientists and researchers.
With the disease ME patients face huge obstacles to learning about their own disease. They face further huge obstacles into getting research funded specifically into ME. Invest in ME has made a big difference.
Many websites claim to be about ME but are really about fatigue and chronic fatigue. So are many research projects and charities.
Invest in ME is different in that it was set up by the parents of young ME sufferers and is run by volunteers -no fat charity salaries for this group.
Please vote for Invest in ME – the money won’t be going to finance an expensive charity structure – it will go into something real and worthwhile instead.
My vote goes to Invest in ME because of the great need for a biomedical ME research centre in the UK.
Please support Invest in ME, the UK organisation which funds biomedical research into the debilitating and disabling condition ME. ME rarely kills, but it steals decades of a person’s life – imagine being a young person with ME never being able to contemplate getting married, having children, having a job or going on holiday. Just day after day; year after year of staring at four walls. There is currently no cure and no effective treatment. ME can be a living death. Please help to support research to find a cause and a cure.
My vote goes to Invest in ME
I vote for the Invest in Me
Please vote for the Monsters Wheelchair Fund.
Winning this would be a great start to their fund raising.
The Monsters Flyball Team are going to raise £12,000 to purchase Hollie Byrnes an All-terrain wheelchair. This will enable Hollie and her Dogs for the Disabled Assistance dog Hilton to safely access more than just flat surfaces and even enjoy places that we take for granted such as beaches and woodland which is currently impossible. It will also enable this awesome twosome to compete at all flyball venues throughout the year along with their Monster teammates!
So please HELP and vote for the Monsters Wheelchair Fund. Thank you
I’m voting for Pathfinder Guide Dog Programme, £200 would make a big difference. It could feed 4 dogs for a month, it could buy a harness and equipment. Such a small charity, so £200 would make a BIG difference.
Please please please vote for Invest In ME , they are a great charity with a big heart in finding a cure for over 250,000 sick people in UK !!!
PLEASE VOTE FOR INVEST IN M.E..They are doing wonderful work on behalf of myself and others housebound and bedbound by M.E a neurological illness which they dont know enough about
investing in M.E will help bring an end to all this misery
it is time for major research to be made in the Uk..please vote now
Tens of thousands of people, including children in the UK are spending decades bed or house bound and in appalling pain with the debilitating neurological illness myalgic encephalomyelitis, yet receive no specialist care whatsoever. Severe M.E. is a life sentence and untreated leads to cancer and heart disease.
The UK governments have spent no money at all researching the cause of severe M.E. or developing treatments. Please vote for Invest in ME as they are the only hope left to those affected – they plan a desperately needed research and treatment centre in Norwich, the UK’s first and only one, but are a tiny, tiny charity & need money to do this.
Invest In ME are an amazing charity, they do so much, and have my total respect!!
PLEASE VOTE FOR THEM!!!
MS Research is very close to my heart and every moment I live I want to do all I can to find better treatment to treat Multiple Sclerosis. It is shocking that young people can lose their job in the 21st century because they have MS. I want to stop this happening. I want a better understanding of MS. The charity MS Research is striving for your support, please vote for MS Research