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Meningitis Now's Believe & Achieve Cookery Day
Believe & Achievers spent a delicious day learning new cookery skills -
Community Support Officers make a difference every day
Four incredible Meningitis Now Community Support Officers cover the whole of the UK to offer solace, a listening ear, information and support to people who have had meningitis and the people who love them -
Meningitis Now's helpline is 'gold dust'
Our nurse-led Helpline supports thousands of people every year. A recent review of the service shows its crucial impact on those seeking support for meningitis concerns -
Rebuilding Futures Fund helps Jade stay warm
Diving into the North Sea in the middle of winter isn’t the most appealing prospect, but thanks to our Rebuilding Futures Fund, it just became a little more tempting for top surfer Jade -
Exercise your free will
At Meningitis Now we’ve teamed up with trusted online partners Bequeathed and leading law firm and our long-standing supporter Irwin Mitchell to provide a quick, easy and free way for you to leave your own special legacy to the world during March. -
Buccaneers looking for new recruits
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 -
Tom’s 2022 Meningitis Now round-up
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 -
Invitation to Meningitis Now Family Day
Our Family Days are a great way for those affected by this devastating disease to join together, share their experiences and most importantly, have fun. -
Why Believe & Achieve is for you
Our Believe & Achieve programme is for 11 to 25-year-olds who have been impacted by meningitis, directly or indirectly, and aims to support you to reach your goals. Why not join us for one of our upcoming online events -
Recovery, rebuilding and a new sense of resolve
We’ve published our latest annual report for the year ending March 2022 -
Founder Steve Dayman to step back from Meningitis Now
At the end of March 2023, Steve Dayman will leave Meningitis Now at the culmination of Spencer’s Legacy: nobody left behind -
Harmonie-Rose becomes youngest wearer of microprocessor knees
Quadruple amputee and meningitis survivor Harmonie-Rose has teamed up with private prosthetic rehabilitation provider, Dorset Orthopaedic and manufacturer Ottobock to become the world’s youngest bilateral amputee to wear microprocessor knees. -
Survey hopes to bring improvements to meningitis aftercare and support
We’re after your help please to be part of an important national survey, which we hope will help to improve the aftercare and support provided to people who have been diagnosed with meningitis and have spent time in hospital -
Going to university after having meningitis
Believe & Achiever Erin shares her own insight and experience of her first year of uni, having lived with after-effects of meningitis since the age of 8 -
Understanding experiences and support needs of adults after meningitis
Our new survey focuses on the recovery and outcomes of UK adults aged 16 and over who have been hospitalised in the last five years with viral or bacterial meningitis -
Celebrating our volunteers this Volunteers' Week
Today marks the start of Volunteers' Week, providing the perfect opportunity to thank our network of volunteers for their tireless awareness-raising and supportive work -
Jack Fowler inspires Believe & Achievers at London event
We were delighted to welcome music artist, former Love Island contestant and meningitis survivor Jack Fowler to our Believe & Achieve escape room challenge in London this weekend -
People affected by acquired brain injury after meningitis urged to help influence ABI policy
Launched in March, the Government's call for evidence to help improve services for people living with acquired brain injury runs until Monday 6 June -
Celebrating Meningitis Now's nurse-led Helpline on International Nurses Day
Today - 12 May - is International Nurses Day, and a perfect time to highlight the incredible range of support that our nurse-led Helpline provides to people affected by, or with questions about, meningitis -
Top disability and lifestyle magazine looks at meningitis
Enable, the UK's leading disability and lifestyle magazine, have taken a look at our Rebuilding Futures Fund and just two of the people we've helped