How we can help

Our services

We know that living with ME can be hard, especially when you're young but our ME services and resources for children and young people are here for you.

ME can make it difficult to spend time with friends or family and can have a big impact on your life, including school and hobbies.

You might have to stop doing some of the things you enjoy for a while, or do them less often so your body can rest.

It can be hard for other people to understand what you’re going through and that can leave you feeling as if no-one gets what it’s like to have ME.

We are here to help. You can:

You can also, if you like, choose to volunteer as a Steering Group member. This means you will help shape our services and make sure we are promoting to them effectively to the young people that need them. Get in touch for more information we'd love to hear from you.

Our Young People's Community

For access to great services, please join our Young People's Community - it's free, and open to anyone with ME aged up to and including 18.

Some are more severely affected than others, but even if their experiences are different to yours, every member of our community understands what it’s like to live with ME.

• Cheers is our monthly e-magazine written especially for and by young people with ME. Write and submit your own articles about topics that matter to you, or just read what others have written!
• Our lively Young People's Forum is kept safe a dedicated group of volunteer Peer Support Moderators, who all have experience of ME themselves. They will chat with users, provide support and signpost you to resources they think might help you. Some people use the forum to get support and talk about how ME effects them, while others use it to talk about things other than ME, such as hobbies and interests, with people who understand what it’s like to have ME.
• We offer a pen pal service that puts you in touch with another young person affected by ME. We will ask about your interests and hobbies and match you up with someone we think you'll get on with.
• Some of our more severely affected community members are too ill to write back. If you’re OK with writing to someone and not getting a reply, then you could make a huge difference to someone who’s very isolated and too unwell to see their friends. If you’re severely affected, you can apply to receive a letter from a buddy writer.
• All our community members receive a handwritten birthday card from one of our volunteers unless they choose not to.

After we've got your completed Young People's Community registration form, we'll send you a welcome email, telling you about our services and sharing a link to the forum.

Your forum profile will be checked by the forum administrator.

If there are any problems they'll email you to chat about it but otherwise your account will be approved and you'll be able to log in to the forum.