A few months ago, we told you that we’d been offered digital billboard space across the UK to use for free throughout the year. You can find out more about this here.

The Awards for All grant programme has already been successfully used by many of our groups. It can help cover the cost of delivering services or Summer/Christmas celebrations.

About Awards for All

Awards for All offers grants of between £300 and £20,000 to be spent within two years. It’s a relatively simple process, doesn’t have a deadline, and applications can be made at any time.

✓ They can fund equipment, one-off events, small capital projects, staff costs, training costs, transport, utilities/running costs or volunteer expenses.

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Earlier this year we told you we’re introducing a new Volunteer Management System called Assemble. You can read more about the system, why we’re introducing it and how it’ll benefit you, here.

A few months ago, we told you about Project Mead, our service transformation project. You can read more about the project here. Since then, we’ve been working to understand people’s experiences of accessing our services by undertaking interviews and surveys with the MS community. We look forward to sharing the insight we’ve gathered with you soon.

During the last week, the UK has seen a surge in racist rhetoric and disinformation build to a series of violent incidents in communities across England and Northern Ireland. As an organisation, we condemn the attacks on minoritised groups.

We’ll support any volunteers impacted. Below we’re sharing some guidance and support available.

When using software, online tools and apps which will have access to personal data, it’s important they meet the privacy rights of our community to avoid a data breach.

It’s a legal requirement of the UK GDPR to show accountability and document the data protection measures in place. So, at the MS Society, we carry out security and other due diligence checks on the software, online tools and apps that staff and volunteers use. For example, WhatsApp or the apps available within Microsoft Office 365.

Throughout the year, we hold events across the UK to engage and thank our supporters. We want to show them how the vital funds we receive from them are used to progress all aspects of our work — transforming lives now and giving real hope for the future.



The final event of 2024, hosted by our CEO Nick Moberly, will be held at Belfast Castle on Wednesday 9 October. We’ll provide a light lunch for supporters to enjoy while they meet each other and MS Society staff.

At the end of last year, we recruited a Volunteer User Panel to provide valuable input into our new volunteer management system (VMS), Assemble.

You can find out more about Assemble in our previous news article here. The system will take on much of the functionality of both the Portal and volunteer website. These sites will retire once we have Assemble up and running.

In this article, we hear about what the panel has been up to since forming.

Following our successful pilot at the end of 2023, we restarted face-to-face fundraising just over a month ago.

Our paid fundraisers have been predominantly based in Swansea and in and around London areas since the beginning of the campaign.

So far, we’ve recruited 222 new donors, which is amazing – with an average annual gift of £117. The average age of our donor is 46.

Last week, 3-9 June, we celebrated Volunteers’ Week – an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering.

We wanted to take the opportunity to shout as loud as we could about the amazing contribution volunteers make to our work and community. We shared lots of content throughout the week but in case you missed it, here’s a roundup.