Anna Redshaw’s ‘Blue Sunday’ Online Tea Party For M.E.!

Sincere thanks to Anna Redshaw for organising Blue Sunday Party For M.E.
in aid of various ME charities including us! It will be held this year on Sunday 18th May 2025. Since its launch in 2013, the initiative has raised over £140,000 for charities.

As Anna explains

“We are so often excluded from events because our symptoms can make it so difficult for us to leave the house, let alone spend an hour or two at an event. That’s why the Tea Party For M.E. has always had an online/virtual element running alongside any in-person tea parties.

Join the ME/CFS community on Sunday 18th May as we come together to have a Tea Party For M.E.

• Dig out your favourite mug, or your best cups and saucers

• Wear something blue (pyjamas count!)

• Have a slice of cake, or two. It can be bought or baked, and if your own dietary requirements limit you from eating cake then you can switch cake for whatever works best for you

• If you can, the price you'd pay for tea and cake to an M.E. charity.

• Post a photo of your tea party set-up to social media. This allows those who are joining in by themselves to feel a part of something bigger. It breaks the isolation that we all feel when we are too unwell to be with people in-person

• Chat online with others doing the exact same thing. Swap recipes. Like photos. Comment on the gorgeous tea sets that others are using

• Follow the hashtags BlueSunday2025 and TeaPartyForME2025 or use the dedicated Facebook event to see everyone else's tea party related posts.

With no right or wrong way to join in on Blue Sunday, I hope you'll find a way that works for you. A few examples of how others join in each year:
Having a solo Tea Party For M.E. in whatever way that looks like, using a blue mug, wearing something blue, ensuring there's a packet of your favourite biscuits in your bedside drawer ready for the day, joining a video call, inviting a few friends over to sit and chat with you while you're in bed, holding a bake sale, scrolling through other peoples' Blue Sunday posts, having a garden tea party
It's about feeling a part of what is surely the most resilient community out there. And raising a tonne of money while we do that.”