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You’re not alone

Living with a chronic illness can be isolating and make you feel very alone. But you're not. Our charity was set up specifically to provide information, support and contact between people with multiple sensitivities. We provide a lot more than the few pages you see on this website....

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MCS-Awareness Month

May is MCS-Awareness month and this year we're asking everyone to go fragrance-free. We have a new poster and leaflet to help spread awareness of fragrance sensitivity. You can help by sharing them on social media, or why not put up a poster in your local...

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Smart Meters Introduction

Did You Know?  Old-style gas, electricity and water meters are being replaced by smart meters. The UK government intends to install wireless smart meters in every home, school and workplace by 2019 at a cost of at least £11bn. Installation has already started in some areas. Smart meters measure your...

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Smart Meters and Health

HEALTH Utility companies are starting to connect everyone with a wireless super grid which uses pulsed radiofrequency microwaves from a meter in the middle of your house. This beams information to a hub in the street which collects your data every 30 minutes (or more often if your...

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Smart Meters and Electrosensitivity

Electro-Sensitivity For those people already suffering from Electro-Sensitivity (ES) (2-4% of the population), the prospect of a country-wide wireless super grid is a daunting prospect. In their own consultation literature the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) state they intend to make provision for 'vulnerable' people. However...

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Smart Meters Privacy and Environment

Privacy & Environment Security Smart meters are likely to transmit your energy information (how and what you’re using) every 30 minutes to a hub in the street which will pass the information on to a new central Data and Communications Company. Some areas have already started installation. This raises...

Smart Meters Affect Children

Children Children are more vulnerable to the effects of radiation of all kinds because their skulls are thinner and their immune systems are not fully developed. The current health and safety guidelines were formed as a rsult of tests on healthy adult males. They do not take into...

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Garden Club

The LELA Garden As part of the Safe as Houses Project, Gillian McCarthy (scientific advisor for MCS-Aware)  is conducting trials to develop a Low Allergen, Low Emission (LELA) garden suitable for people with allergies and environmental illness. The planting is organic, low allergen, low pollen, low fragrance and...