ME Awareness Week 2026: 11th – 17th May
ME Awareness Week takes place every year in May surrounding International ME/CFS Awareness Day (also known as World ME Day) on 12th May.
You can get involved by fundraising, joining our campaign, Seeds of Hope, and engaging with out content on social media across the week, to help us raise as much awareness as possible
Below we've shared some of our fundraising resources, downloadable graphics to share on social media, and Anna Redshaw's Blue Sunday: Tea Party for ME!
Get Involved this ME Awareness Week
Join our new campaign Seeds Of Hope
Fundraise with Us
Take part in one of our events or hold your own to raise money. We're here to support you every step of the way.
Campaign
People with ME have had to fight for the research, care and support they desperately need. Our campaigns are a force for change.
Blue Sunday
Take part in Tea Party for ME this Blue Sunday, 17th May, to raise money for ME Charities
Donate to the ME Association this ME Awareness Week
ME Awareness Week Graphics and Resources
The ME Association produces a range of graphics each year for ME Awareness Week, designed to help you in raising awareness, fundraising and sharing your story.
ME/CFS Symptom Wheel
ME/CFS is a complex multisystem disease with a wide range of disabling symptoms. One of the main symptoms people with ME/CFS experience is referred to as ‘fatigue', however, this word does not even begin to describe the severe debilitating exhaustion and depletion of energy that people with ME/CFS experience on a daily basis.
All these symptoms dramatically affect a person's quality of life and their ability to function to complete every tasks.
Please take 5-10mins to read all about #MECFS on the ME Association website here: https://meassociation.org.uk/what-is-mecfs/
ME/CFS Symptom Posters
The ME Association has produced ME/CFS symptom posters in honor of ME Awareness Week, which you can download and print, or share on your social media.
Each poster features a different photo of someone with ME/CFS from our Real ME Campaign, aiming to show the reality of this devastating illness.
Perception vs Reality
Often for people with ME/CFS, there is a vast difference between the day to day experience of this illness, and the perception of it from the public.
This series of downloadable social media graphics addresses a range of false perceptions of ME/CFS, including assumptions about:
- Age at which you can get sick
- Similarities to Long Covid
- Need for development of an effective treatment
- False assumptions about the illness being psychosomatic
- The need for rest to manage PEM
