{"id":8,"date":"2010-09-23T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:02:08","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Our Vision and Aim<\/h1>\n<h2>Our Vision<\/h2>\n<p>Our Vision is for a Wales where adults and children with ME\/CFS and PVFS and their carers are taken seriously and treated with respect, where diagnosis, treatment and services are accessible without a battle.<\/p>\n<h2>Our aim<\/h2>\n<p>The Welsh Association of ME &amp; CFS Support is a charity which gives a national voice to people with ME\/CFS and PVFS in Wales, their carers and families, in order to improve services, access to services, awareness and support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We do this by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>campaigning for recognition of ME as a neurological illness in line with the WHO classification and the results of biomedical research<\/li>\n<li>campaigning for appropriate health, education, social care services, benefits and research<\/li>\n<li>raising awareness of ME<\/li>\n<li>offering support to young people with ME<\/li>\n<li>providing information in Welsh and English for people with ME, their families &amp; professionals<\/li>\n<li>aiding local support groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Patron: <a title=\"Lord Barry Jones\" href=\"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/lord-barry-jones\/\">Lord Barry Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Vision and Aim Our Vision Our Vision is for a Wales where adults and children with ME\/CFS and PVFS and their carers are taken seriously and treated with respect, where diagnosis, treatment and services are accessible without a battle. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"one-column-subpages.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5qkYK-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47613,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/47613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}