How to claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) 16th July 2020 at 1.15pm This is the July 2020 online meeting of Fibromyalgia Friends Together. This session will be delivered David Rollins who has many years experience of voluntarily helping people with their benefits claims. He has also set-up a network of people who he has […]
Rebecca Browne living in Northern Ireland gives her view on living with Fibromyalgia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-53000548/i-felt-like-a-prisoner-in-my-own-home A long-term back injury and fibromyalgia left 26-year-old Rebecca Browne unable to leave her house. “I was like a prisoner in my own home, so I eventually had to look into getting a wheelchair,” she said. Rebecca received a wheelchair loan […]
June is Pride month, it is a month dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. Pride is usually celebrated with lots of parades and marches but with coronavirus and social distancing still in place, things will be different this year. A lot of events have been postponed or cancelled, but the celebrations […]
Lottery helping us to raise over £500 per year to support people with Fibromyalgia We are raising over £500 a year from people who have signed up to the Charnwood Lottery ran by Charnwood Council that funds our work. We use the money to raise awareness of the condition and to support the sufferers, […]
We have had many people contacting us about Fibromyalgia and the corona covid 19 virus We have had many people contacting us about Fibromyalgia and the covid 19 virus, including being asked about if they should be on the shielded list. The answer is you will not necessarily be on the shielded list because of […]
Yesterday (21/05/2020) Fibromyalgia Friends Together had its first online meeting. The topic of the conversation was ‘Surviving Fibromyalgia during the current crisis’. This a copy of the presentation given: Presentation on surviving Fibromyalgia There is a additional slide in the presentation with your suggestions on surviving it. Our next meeting takes place on Thursday 18th […]
This is a reminder that the first online meeting of Fibromyalgia Friends Together will take place this Thursday 21st May at 1.15pm. The topic is ‘Surviving life with Fibromyalgia in the current crisis we are in’ Everyone is welcome to join in! To take part, you will need to use Zoom which is totally […]
Message from Mark Farmer, Fibromyalgia Friends Together Group Chair We are excited to announce that last we reached the 10,000 like on this page about Fibromyalgia. We started the year with just a few thousand likes and in a short space of time, have reached this important milestone. When I helped set this group up […]
We have secured over £6,000 to help raise awareness of Fibromyalgia, to help support sufferers and their carers and to help purchase equipment that will help us carry out. We are currently detailed proposals to have an access fund to help Fibromyalgia sufferers, their carers, friends and family to come to our meetings. Many thanks […]