Meningitis Now is a national charity based in the United Kingdom. It was formed following a merger between the charities The Meningitis Trust and Meningitis UK in 2013. Meningitis Now is working towards a future where no one in the UK dies from meningitis and everyone affected gets the support they need.
Meningitis UK was originally called the Spencer Dayman Meningitis Laboratories in memory of founder and chief executive Steve Dayman's son, who died of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in 1982, aged 14-months. It was established in 1999 to fund a £500,000 dedicated meningitis research laboratory in the School of Medical Sciences at University of Bristol. Once this project was completed, the charity decided to focus solely on funding research into a preventative vaccine for all forms of meningitis.[citation needed]
In 2013, the Meningitis Trust and Meningitis UK merged and the new organisation was renamed Meningitis Now.[2] Medical research is still at the heart of what they do, together with awareness raising and support.
^Seigal, Catherine (2017). Bereaved Parents and their Continuing Bonds: Love after Death. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 119. ISBN978-1-78450-641-4.
^"Meningitis charities announce merger". 15 March 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2018 – via www.bbc.com.
^"View our various different teams | Meningitis Now". Meningitis Now. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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January 01, 1970
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