Stop MS Appeal - the final year

We’ve now entered the final year of the Stop MS Appeal. It’s been an 11-year journey to help transform MS research and accelerate the search for treatments. We set out to raise £100 million, and we’re £91 million of the way there!

Phase one of the Appeal launched in 2015 with a focus on high value donors, trusts and companies. We hosted lots of cool events, including our first carol concert at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2016, a tribute concert for British cellist, Jacqueline du Pré, at Royal Festival Hall in 2017, and an opera event in Holland Park in 2018. £46.6 million was raised in the first five years.

In 2019 the Appeal went public with a bang! We've had coverage across TV, radio and newspapers, along with fantastic support from celebrities and lots of individual cash giving appeals. That, combined with donated advertising space secured by the Stop MS Appeal Board, really helped us get the word out there about MS research and how donations help to make a difference. You may even have spotted some Stop MS messaging on billboards at the Bullring in Birmingham!

The money raised has made incredible things happen. Like Octopus, the world’s first clinical trial of its kind for progressive MS.

Exciting plans are afoot to help raise the final millions. And we have a cross-charity working group of fantastic colleagues ready to make it happen.

If you’d like to donate to the Stop MS Appeal, you can do so here. We’d also love for you to spread the word with your key contacts, encouraging donations and raising awareness of the appeal. You can use this toolkit to help with messaging on your social media and in newsletters.

Stop MS Annual Appeal Lecture – save the date!

Save the date for this year’s Stop MS Annual Appeal Lecture! This will be held on Tuesday 24 June in London and with an online streamed version. More details to follow in our April newsletter.

Together, we can reach our £100 million target and get closer still to stopping MS.

If you have any questions about the Stop MS Appeal, please get in touch with [email protected].