DecodeME in the media

[Andy]

Am I being confused but if you go to support us then you get directed to afme

Who don’t have a link to anywhere other page from there? Just the link to the afme managed fund

Is there a university or non-afme donation page?

On the new DecodeME website

Visit the new DecodeME website at https://institute-genetics-cancer.ed.ac.uk/decodeme

there are no donation links for the reasons discussed upthread.

 

[Andy]

How do I find chris’ team page that you can donate on?

Is it pointed to from anywhere?

Click on the link 'underneath' the word "directly" in the quote below.

donate to Chris' team directly

 

[Andy]

Is there a way that people can donate to Chris’ team directly - if people had the link

Or am I getting confused and that option doesn’t exist?

See my post immediately above.

 

[Eleanor]

Maybe this website could have a donation link somewhere prominent on the home page?

 

[Andy]

Maybe this website could have a donation link somewhere prominent on the home page?

Obviously the suggestion could be made to the committee but I feel that they may be understandably reluctant due to the precedent that would then be set.

 

[Trish]

Maybe this website could have a donation link somewhere prominent on the home page?

We have a public thread in the Fundraising forum:
Donate to build on the work of DecodeME

 

[Solstice]

If people would like to see donation links on the new DecodeME pages then I can only suggest that you get in touch with the University of Edinburgh and push them to reconsider their policy of no third party donation links on webpages they host. We will only give links for both, so if we can't then we won't link to any.

I can understand the desire to donate to Chris' team directly but I would point out that it says on the AfME donation page, "Donations will be managed by Action for ME, and used towards research projects delivered in partnership with the University of Edinburgh, such as the Genetics Centre of Excellence and Sequence ME and Long Covid.".

I actually prefer it goes through trusted charities, with an emphasis on trusted. They'll know more than me about where to put the money, so that's preferable to me going around the web and clicking on projects. I donated to AfME for this specific project though, but I'm sure it'll be money well spent either way.

I'll try to find some others to donate as well. Got some healthy friends in the UK.