Our member Janet Akehurst has very kindly taken over as secretary whilst Ines is on
maternity leave. Janet’s husband “Stephen” has also very kindly offered to audit our
accounts at no cost, now that he has retired. Many thanks to Janet and Stephen.

Member Christine Bracken held a coffee morning in order to raise awareness, where
She invited friends and family. She raised £20 and sold £20’s worth of raffle tickets for
FMA UK. Well done Christine!

A big thank you to everyone who sold and bought tickets for this year’s raffle. This raised
almost £7000. As well as keeping the office running, this will help provide various free
information packs to people with fibromyalgia and medical professionals.

Dear Members,
                          We would like to take this opportunity
to thank Norah Wickerson for the presentation on her
“Combination Approach to Tackling Fibromyalgia”
to our group meeting on Monday 17th September 2007,
at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield.
It was an excellent presentation and members who
have already benefited from Norah’s advice, gave their
views and experiences since starting the combination
approach and as a result many of our members are
now going to try it.
If you would like more information about Norah’s
Combination Approach ‘click here’

October 15th
Holistic Massage Therapist “Clare Combie”(right)
gave an impressive talk and massage demonstration
from 10.30 for approx 1 hour and was followed by a
question and answer session. Some members volunteered
for a massage demonstration and discovered the benefits
of this type of therapy.

John Leesley (Joan our treasurer Son) ran the above
marathon in 1 hour 53 minutes, finishing in 1,829th place
out of a total 4,515 runners.

He raised a magnificent £201 for our group, which
was a great achievement!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank John for
his help in raising funds for our group and also for all the
members who sponsored him.

From left: Christine, Nora and Joan

Other News
Pictured below: Christine and Joan raising the awareness of FMS at the M.E Conference
at the Circle Conference Centre in the city centre.
Professor Malcolm Hooper was guest speaker and he gave a humorous, down to earth
presentation on the subjects of M.E. Politics, Medicine and Science. If anyone would like
to receive a detailed report on his talk, please contact Kath at the Sheffield ME Group.
Tel No. 0114 2536700 or email: info@sheffieldMEgroup.co.uk

Sheffield FMS Self Help Group “Webshop”
We have recently added a shopping link on our website, so anyone can go shopping
for all those household goods or services from top name retailers like M&S, HMV and
Waterstones.
The prices you pay are exactly the same as you would through any other website or
High Street store, but buying through our website would qualify us for donation from
the retailer. For example if you sign up to Sky Television via our webshop, our group
will receive a donation up to the value of £70.

If there are any  queries regarding the content of this web site, please contact us on
info@sheffieldfms.org.uk

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