Stephen William - Epic 250 mile Cycle Challenge

Stephen Williams' wife Amanda suffers with the debilitating condition fibromyalgia

 A devoted Chester husband is planning a sponsored cycle ride from Exmouth to Chester to raise funds to tackle fibromyalgia, a condition from which his wife suffers.

“To support this charity, me and some of Amanda’s cousins - Emma White, Ben White, Hannah Bown - are doing a long distance cycle from Exmouth to Chester, that’s 220 to 250 miles depending on how bad our map readings skills are or how big the hills are!” said Stephen.

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International Awareness Day

12th May is celebrated annually throughout the world as International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day - awareness events are taking place run by support groups and individuals; and many more are raising awareness via social media.   Whatever you are doing today - try and pass on some awareness.  

FMA UK's suggested theme for the day is Coffee & Cake ... so we hope that plenty of you are enjoying a nice cake today.

FM Support South East Essex are holding a Coffee Morning in Stanford le Hope Methodist church hall

The local group to the office, Fibro PaIN are holding an afternoon event in Fairfulls, a local cafe and much more is going on.

Together we can raise awareness and continue to #fightfibro

Awareness event and free swimming pool in Stoke-on-Trent

Nuffield Health in Stoke-on-Trent will organise a fibromyalgia awareness event on Friday the 12^th May in the Nuffield Gym in Stoke. Learn about fibromyalgia, brings fiends and use the swimming pool for free for the day! More information in the poster. 

Glen Reed runs London marathon for FMA UK

Glen Reed has raised over £1,000 for FMA UK running the London marathon this year for his wife, Charlene, who lives with fibromyalgia. Glen shared his experience with us: ‘’I would like to begin by saying a massive thank you to all who supported me and sponsored me to run this year’s London Marathon. As of writing this the total received is £1,026.58 and I can honestly say it was a huge help knowing I was raising so much money for Fibromyalgia Action UK (FMAUK). Thank you to all my friends, family, friends of friends and also the Bournemouth One Stop Stores who allowed collections within their shops as well as a raffle and their amazing customers who donated so generously.

I am not a natural endurance runner and I knew right from the start that this was going to be a very tough challenge. When I discovered I was actually in, my initial thought was “oh my god, I’ve actually got to do this now!” My training began around the end of November but unfortunately just before Christmas I injured my right calf muscle, forcing me to rest it and allow the muscle to recover. This meant I couldn’t go back to training until near the end of January and even then the injury was playing on my mind and the runs were relatively short.

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Fibrofest concert in Gravesend, Kent, Saturday 3rd June

Fibrofest is an annual concert with proceeds donated to FMA UK. This year's concert will take place on Saturday 3rd June at 4 pm in Leo's Red Lion in Gravesend. More details and how to order tickets can be found on the attached poster. 

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ReMEmber Conference - Burgess Hill, West Sussex

ReMEmber are hosting their National ME Awareness week conference on Saturday 13th May 2017 in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Full details are on the poster.