We’re thrilled to be launching a brand-new feature this month called Me and My Mug. It's designed to help you to get to know and connect with your fellow volunteers.

Each Me and My Mug will spotlight a volunteer, who’ll tell us about their favourite mug and answer fun questions about themselves and their volunteering.

We hope it will be an enjoyable way of getting to know one another and allow you to connect with MS Society volunteers based across the UK who have similar interests.

All volunteers in our ‘priority groups’ - those that actively provide services and/or are recruiting new volunteers, along with Trustees and Council Chairs – now have access to Assemble.

Join us for the Annual Research Lecture on Tuesday 19 May from 6.45pm at the Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG.

Professor Alasdair Coles, Co Director of the MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, will present his talk — Remyelination: The next phase of MS treatment.

In this lecture, Professor Coles will reflect on the evolution of MS treatment, from early breakthroughs for relapsing MS, to recent pioneering efforts to repair damaged myelin.

If you're involved in Health and Safety for group activities, please be sure to download the new forms, rather than using any old ones you may have saved.

You can find all the updated forms here.

The content of the HSV guidance forms remains the same. But they’re now subtitled as ‘Low level risk assessments’, with a box to complete added after each statement.

For the last decade, the Stop MS Appeal has been a beacon of hope for everyone affected by MS. When it launched in 2015, years of scientific progress had brought major advances in our understanding of the condition.




It was time to turn those discoveries into treatments, and we committed to raising £100 million over 10 years to make that vision a reality

Thanks to the incredible support of the MS community, including our volunteers, we’ve achieved that goal and raised over £101.9 million!

In our Volunteer Voice session at the end of January, we shared an update on MS Help, including key information about our new staff structure.

You can find out more about Volunteer Voice here, or sign up to attend the next one in March.

Orbi is a 12-week, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)-based digital programme to support emotional wellbeing alongside life with MS.

It was developed with the same King’s College London researchers we're funding to develop the Refuel-MS fatigue-management app.

It’s now nearly time to give access to Assemble (our new volunteer management system) to our next set of volunteers – groups we’ve prioritised that actively provide services and/or are recruiting new volunteers, along with Trustees and Council Chairs.

Using Give A Little for contactless donations

As you know, our new provider of contactless devices is Give A Little.

Your staff contact for Give A Little is now Lauren Sampson (Community Resources Senior Manager). Lauren's been bringing her colleagues up to speed on what Give A Little can offer our groups.