Well it’s the argument that we are all housed under one roof. So there’s the rspca organisation then there a youth wing of that. The main benefit would be from having a big group rather than lots of different ones with the potential for overlap of resources /materials and time so for eg at a forward ME meeting or the recent meeting at scotland where possibly all DR S, SC , An meruk rep all attended, it might be just one of them freeing up time and resources /travel expenses for others to do something else. Plus as you say TYMES is specifically about kids support, does it also inform about research of fundraise for research. If it was part of a larger group then families would be exposed to the wider ME world outside support & schooling ?But TYMES charitable objectives are specifically for children and young people and what exactly would they bring to a larger org?
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I don’t see why meruk not being a member org impacts a merge. It’s focus is research , it seems to have near same beliefs as mea, mea has the Melvin Ramsey research fund & some of Its work is On building up research. Meruk drs and staff could bring that to mea or a post mea merger, where we need a segment focused on science and research.
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