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Marc Fluks is spreading the news on several ME lists, that
Merge/ME research UK does not exist:


He writes:

*..I haven't translated it yet - but you'd better
read:
https://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts..e-net&P=R4153It
is in Dutch, but you will understand it anyway. It says that,*
Merge/ME research UK does not exist.* Jonathan Kerr *is* the
'CFS Research Foundation' (its website even runs on his PC).*

There is a lot of money involved (560,376 pounds) that has not
been accounted for according the Charity Commission.* A
house at the address of the 'CFS Research Foundation' is for
salefor 625,000 pounds.You'd better find out what is going on
here..*

Marc Fluks


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I will come back on this subject later on, because I'm too sick at
the moment, but for the present you will find a short message
from Neil Abbot below`.

~jvr

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From:  "Neil Abbot" <Neil.Abbot@pkavs.org.uk>


MAY BE REPOSTED



Does ME Research UK exist?
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Following a variety of postings today about the non-existence of
ME Research UK (MERGE), leading to speculation that the
organisation is highly sophisticated (and time-consuming)
6-year hoax, some clarification might be useful.

From 2000 to 2005, MERGE was registered with the Charities
Commission for England and Wales with the number 1080201.
In 2005, at the request of the Scottish Parliament, the new Office
of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) was created to
regulate and oversee all charitable institutions in Scotland.

This strengthening of charity regulation was welcome and
valuable, but one of its consequences was that charities with
their "headquarters" in Scotland had to register with OSCR
instead of the Charities Commission for England and Wales.
Accordingly, OSCR and the Charities Commission for England
and Wales effected the smooth transfer of registration,
completed on 24th November 2005, and a new Scottish number
(SC036942) was allocated to MERGE. This is why the website
of the UK Charities Commission has the entry for MERGE, "24
Nov 2005 Removed", and why at the same time an entry was
created for MERGE
http://www.oscr.org.uk/CharityIndex..s.aspx?id=36942 (now
with the working name ME Research UK
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/w..RE&P=R2464&I=-3
) on the OSCR site. We believe that the new OSCR is in the
process of compiling extensive records on all its 19,000
charities which will appear on its website in due course.

So, we'd like to reassure people that no conspiracy or 6-year
hoax is involved, just a boring organisational change forced
upon us by circumstances outwith our control.

Neil Abbot
ME Research UK
The Gateway
North Methven St
Perth PH1 5PP, UK
http://www.meresearch.org.uk/


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