Please note that the MS Society Designs service will be closed from Friday 12 May until Monday 22 May 2023. Last orders for designs to be created will be Tuesday 9 May.
Design orders will continue to be processed from Monday 22 May 2023.
If you have any queries, please contact the Marketing and Brand Team on [email protected].
During the pandemic we all got much more used to communicating online. And there are now even more ways for us to share information, ideas and feedback.
One of our Community Development Officers, Paula MacGillivray, is in the final stages of completing her apprenticeship in Business Management, which the MS Society has supported. This means her research and assignments need to be of relevance to the organisation.
We’re in the spring phase of our ambitious Stop MS Appeal to raise £100 million. We’ve been focusing on the impact research can have on those living with MS and the hope that it offers.
And the research we fund has very much been in the spotlight in the past week or so. Because our revolutionary clinical trial Octopus has started recruitment at its first hospital site in London. This means the first few people with primary and secondary progressive MS have begun taking part.
This year, MS Awareness Week will run from 24-30 April. For the first time ever, we’re joining forces with six other MS charities: MS Trust, Overcoming MS, MS Together, Shift.ms, MS-UK, and MS Therapy Centres. We’re coming together with a common goal – to raise as much awareness about MS as possible. We want to make this year’s MS Awareness Week bigger and better than ever!
Keeping adults with care and support needs protected from harm is a priority for us. So it’s critical for the safe running of our groups that volunteers understand safeguarding and how to report any concerns.
We’ll soon be making our new ‘Health and Safety for group volunteers’ training available on our eLearning platform.
We’ve designed this short, interactive course to help raise awareness of the forms needed for events and activities, how to use the Portal for recording them and where to get support if you need it. It will only take 15-20 minutes to complete the course.
At the beginning of 2022 we were delighted to launch our new Volunteer Recognition Scheme — including Length of Service recognition and our new Impact Awards (to replace Shining Stars).
Length of Service recognition
We’ve been saying thank you to our volunteers on the key anniversaries of their involvement with the MS Society. We send these messages to your email inbox, based on the information we have on our database about your volunteering record with us.
There are just two months to go until Volunteers’ Week 2023, which runs from 1-7 June. This annual event (now in its 39th year) is a time for charities, voluntary groups, social organisations, and volunteers themselves to come together. And to recognise the incredible impact that volunteering has on communities around the UK.
