What’s most important to people living with MS? What’s most challenging and how do we make sure we’re meeting people’s needs?
Our current organisational strategy comes to an end this year. And as we develop our next strategy, we’ll need your knowledge and insight to make sure we’re focusing on the right things.
Why we need a strategy
Our strategy sets out the difference we want to make, and how. It defines our goals as a charity, and what we want to do now and in the long term. For us, our core vision remains the same: a world free from the effects of MS.
Building on what we’ve done so far
Like our current strategy, our new one will focus on the things that matter most to people living with MS. Our 2014-2019 strategy was endorsed by our members, after we spoke to the MS community about what they wanted.
And we’ve done a lot, with you and our community, to progress our seven 2014-2019 goals including:
Speaking out and campaigning on access to treatments, the benefits system and social care
Focussing research on developing treatments for progression, including co-funding a clinical trial testing of simvastatin, which can slow progression in secondary progressive MS
Providing lots of new and long established services and support, both locally and nationally
You can read more about what we’ve achieved together here
Overcoming challenges
We know there’s still a way to go. There are still challenges accessing treatments, care and support and we strive to understand these the best we can (see My Ms My Needs article, page five). We want your input on what you think we should be focusing on and how we can support people living with MS now and in the future.
We may need to make some difficult decisions. But we’ll listen to you, people living with MS, our volunteers and staff– our whole community – to help make these decisions together.
Tell us what you think
Please take a few minutes to tell us what you think here
Please also share this with your members so they can input.
Your feedback will be considered, along with all the feedback we receive - from members, our wider community and staff. It will also be discussed at the national council meetings in the spring to make sure all feedback is represented.
Thank you for taking time to tell us what you think. If you have any questions please let us know.
Contact the Strategy team for more information.
