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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC
Registered Charity 698
Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001
Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')
Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 10am-3pm
Support Line:
(Mondays and Thursdays,
10am-3pm)
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
SA country callers:
Ph: 1300 128 339
(local call)
FIBROMYALGIA HELP: Contact Fibromyalgia SA at the Arthritis Foundation of SA 118 Richmond Road, Marleston 5033 Ph: (08) 8379 5711 |
ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.
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Disclaimer
ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc aims to keep members informed of the various research projects, diets, medications, therapies etc. All communication, both verbal and written, is merely to disseminate information and not to make recommendations or directives.
Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed on this Web site are not necessarily the official views of the Society or its Committee and are not simply an endorsement of products or services.
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President’s Report
January 2002
1: Welcome
2: Fundraising effort
3: Adelaide Bank fund
4: International Conference
5: Elections
6: Fundraising
7: RACP CFS Guidelines
8: Badge Day
9: Office hours
10: Conclusion
Reports
President’s report (AGM Nov
8, 2003)
Management Committee report (Jan 2003)
President’s end of year reports (2002)
President’s report (Mar 2002)
President’s report (Jan 2002)
President’s report (Nov 2001)
Nat. Assn. President’s report
(Nov 2001)
President’s report (Sep 2001)
Miscellaneous reports (Jun
2001)
Vice-president’s report (Jun
2001)
Vice-president’s report (Mar
2001)
President’s Report (continued)
Fundraising
The policy of the Management Committee of the Society is to refrain from writing to members to ask for donations for project x, or to plea for x-thousand dollars for a Christmas appeal (although we reserve the right to do so in a genuine emergency). This is because so many of our membership do not have the means to assist; similarly many of you are genuinely quite badly off in terms of your health, and we also acknowledge that on top of this illness you do not deserve to have to raise money to help provide services for yourself – services that others would get without question, and with sympathy to boot. In view of this policy we prefer for the people who can contribute to make donations without the letters and pressure-large donations and fundraising efforts will be noted in Talking Point (unless the contributors ask not to be revealed).
Having established that general point I think it is important from time to time to encourage you to ‘remember your Society’ when it comes to donations. Many of us give to other charities and we don’t even think about it – to door knockers, to street collectors and perhaps even telemarketers. We also participate in lotteries for charity ‘hoping we will win the big prize.’ This all adds up over the course of a year. It is not my intention to deny the merits of other charities – I will just say that many of them have significant government funding where we have none at present. Because of this fact I won’t lose any sleep over encouraging you think about us a little more. Sometimes it is easy to forget ‘the cause in our own backyard’ which is ME/CFS.
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