News stories

Tilly Lockey made a miraculous recovery from having both hands amputated as a baby. Her Mum, Sarah, was by Tilly’s side through it all.

For teenager Tilly Lockey losing both hands was not the tragedy people might assume. But other’s perception of her affected her confidence growing up.

During our annual Viral Meningitis Week, we focus attention on the viral form of the disease.

Deaf Awareness Week is an annual campaign which promotes the positivity of living with deafness. Meningitis Now supports many amazing people living with hearing loss due to meningitis

A new national survey has found the disease that most concerns parents is meningitis.

We asked Sam Vincent, co-creator, writer and executive producer, what inspired him and writing partner Jonathan Brackley to include a meningitis storyline in the new BBC drama.

Ted first encountered Meningitis Now back in Summer 2018 when he was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis (MenB), 5-years on he takes on the London Marathon for Meningitis Now

Former Shrewsbury school students Nick Argyle and Louis Graham are running 187 miles, the equivalent distance between Shrewsbury and Newcastle, in February to honour their friend Jago’s who died from meningitis

The top search for 2022 on the NHS website was Coronavirus, but three more within the top ten searches can be linked to meningitis.

Brighton Buccaneers are actively seeking to recruit new players and are keen to reach out to people in East and West Sussex who have had meningitis

Thankfully, there is a very real sense now that we have returned to ‘normality’ at Meningitis Now, whilst recognising there are still real challenges ahead of us

Jonathan was left paralised following meningitis in 2007, and has just written and produced a song and accompanying video; 'Six Months' which describes his feelings at that time

Kaylie shares her life story since being rushed to hospital at the age of 7 in 1999 with meningitis.

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is the name given to a type of bacteria commonly found on the skin and in the back of the nose and throat. The bacteria are spread from person to person through sneezing, kissing and skin contact.

The best part of the story is that Michael has donated the proceeds from book sales to us towards our lifesaving and life-changing work

Team Alexis Rose has already raised £200,000 to fight meningitis and has no plans to stop anytime soon

We’re delighted to have been able to meet up with so many of you at these over the last couple of weeks and we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to our Christmas Concerts

We’ve published our latest annual report for the year ending March 2022

Recently, Turtle Tots have raised an amazing £36,000 for our lifesaving and life-changing activities.