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VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED
FOR A COLLECTION in AID of the MS RESEARCH CHARITY
at THE MALL CRIBBS CAUSEWAY near Bristol
on FRIDAY 18^TH and SATURDAY 19^TH JANUARY 2008

The collections will take place all day on both of these days, and if you are able to help for a couple of hours, please contact:

BRIAN PAGINGTON
on Tel: Home 01454 320141
Tel: Mobile 07776 341 601
Please forward this request to anyone you know who might be able to help with these collections.
Thank You

It may not be news to some of you but I am pleased to tell you you that the CSE from Google works well and is easy to set up with no ads on Google for a charity. This existed previously and was changed without letting the user know. So I had the search for non-profit organizations still running with the old settings and wrong links to the site. I also had no way of changing anything! It had taken so long to Google to notice that they were offering this to US non-profit only. I was worried to change the search (what is not broken…) but the improvement is that you can design your own result page!

I am pleased to show this to you:

1. search for “rehabilitation” on MS Research search page
2. see the results page.

I said it was simple to use but it took a while for the penny to drop as you need to write the url of the results page in the search page code.

Last week I have published a new design for the MS Research charity website. It is using a free template from D. Carter who gives away some of his designs on his own site or with others on the Open Source Design. I provide the work free and I have been a volunteer for many years. At the same time, things are changing at the MS Research and Resources Unit and a new volunteer is writing a newsletter which will give no doubt some details about the Project on Fatigue started last month…Then there will be another round of updates.

We are delighted to announce that Andrew Heygate-Browne, President of the University of the West of England ’s (UWE) SU Badminton Club and his team, are going for a World Record attempt on 2nd and 3rd June 2007, and…raising funds for MS Research!

The current world record for the longest badminton doubles is 24 hours, 21 minutes and 19 seconds, held by Sylvia Campion, Aubrey Cox, Maureen Dunne and William Stevenson, of Ireland, set in December 2005.

The attempt is taking place at UWE’s recently opened Centre for Sports, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane , Bristol . If you can help at the event, please let us know! I’m sure you’ll join us in wishing them the very best of luck!

If you would like to be part of this event, in any of the above areas, or would like further information, please contact us on 0117 9286332 as soon as possible. If you would like to sponsor Andrew and the team at UWE, please contact the Fundraising Team for a sponsor form.

Contact Rosie! Telephone 0117 9286332 if you wish to raise funds for MS Research.

I was amazed to find that someone from Lambeth had spent more than 12 minutes having a look at my blog Multiple Sclerosis - MS Research Seeks Help ! Then, even more amazed that my blog is listed as an example to give ideas to charities.

I did it because it was there and free. I joined this blog for the same reasons. Also, I love using languages and writing websites using html, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or xhtml is very interesting. So, it is part of the new day job. I am a webmaster for two charities: MS Research for the charity helping to fund the MS Unit (I started by setting up a website saying that the MS Unit needed help with the website MS First) and Clover House Therapy. Every week, I help find research news on the internet for the researchers at the MS Research Unit in Bristol. When I have a moment of free time I find out what is new and free for volunteer webmasters.

Now, I wonder how long it took me to find out about the links to my blog from this blog?

Hey, I know, I could give you a link. Oh, it is so enjoyable…