NRAS Lottery – rules and our gambling policy

Our Lottery provider’s rules can be found here.  If you wish to exclude yourself from our lottery, you can download a self-exclusion form here.  For information about gambling responsibly, please visit Gamble Aware.

Other ways to donate

Become a friend of NRAS

By becoming a Friend of NRAS  and giving a regular gift you will be supporting adults in the UK living with this disease.   Perhaps you are someone who has benefited from our services and feel you want to give back, or your relative/loved one has RA and you are looking for a way of showing your support?   Monthly gifts by Direct Debit […]

NSAIDs explained

Anti-inflammatories work in two ways: to relieve pain; and to reduce inflammation (swelling, redness, heat and pain)   To reduce pain, the effect from the prescribed NSAID dose taken with or after food may be felt after the first dose. It can take a week to achieve complete pain relief   To reduce inflammation (the swelling in […]

Cannabis for pain? Hype or hope?

Taken from NRAS magazine, 2018  While at the European League Against Rheumatism congress in Madrid in June Iain, our Head of RA Services and I attended a lecture on the topic of cannabis and cannabis-based derivatives such as CBD cannabidiol.   The use of cannabis-based products to treat pain in RA is a topic that comes up regularly in […]

Cardiovascular risk and RA

Guidelines in RA / Cardiovascular Risk  During the 2nd Excellence in Rheumatology Conference in Madrid at the end of January 2012, NRAS founder and then CEO Ailsa interviewed Professor of Rheumatology, Ian Bruce (MD FRCP) about questions raised during the patient workshops (about implementation of guidelines and cardiovascular risk) which ran concurrently with the scientific programme and […]

The effects of RA on the lungs

There are three situations in which the lung can be adversely affected in people with rheumatoid arthritis:  A direct effect of rheumatoid disease on the lungs  An adverse effect of treatment given for rheumatoid on lung tissue  Chest infections, as a consequence of rheumatoid itself or the immune-suppressing therapies given to treat it, causing a further deterioration […]

Gift Aid

If you are a UK taxpayer, please tick the box on our Subscription or Donation form, or provide your full name and full address, including your postcode, along with your permission to claim Gift Aid.   You only need to make your declaration once. We can then use it for every gift you make and claim the gift aid back on any donation made within four years of […]

Raise funds in your community

Whatever your interests, there are so many ways you can get your friends, family, colleagues and community involved to raise vital funds for NRAS. If you have any queries or would like to discuss any ideas with our friendly Fundraising team, just drop us an email fundraising@nras.org.uk or call us on 01628 823 524 (option 2).