With the vaccination programme well underway, and lockdown restrictions easing, many of us are enjoying spending time with loved ones once again. So why not get your nearest and dearest together to celebrate with some sweet treats – whilst making a real difference for people affected by MS?
It's important to us that you have the tools and support you need to serve your MS communities, and that volunteering with us is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. We want to make sure that systems and resources are designed in partnership with the volunteers who will use them, and that decisions affecting local groups are made by volunteers and staff working together.
As previously communicated, our developers have been carrying out work to resolve some issues on our website. These issues were concerned with how local events and services were pulled from the Portal onto groups' pages on the main website, which is done by an automatic update that runs every evening.
The issues with the automatic update have now been resolved and the ‘support near you’ section is working as expected. The fixes mean:
When a local group is removed, its associated events no longer appear on the website.
This year, the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘nature’.
The Mental Health Foundation recently carried out some research into the impact of the pandemic on mental health. Results showed ‘going for walks outside was one of our top coping strategies and 45% of us reported being in green spaces had been vital for our mental health’.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for MS is a cross-political party group interested in MS. We organise this group and will be holding a series of online sessions this year, exploring the experiences of employment for people with MS.
We want to increase the awareness and understanding of MS. And we want to influence MPs to consider disabled people, and people with MS, in their decisions, questions and work when it comes to employment, and addressing the unemployment caused by the pandemic.
As a company, we’re required to have a registered office address recorded with Companies House for receiving official mail, such as from HMRC.
It’s the address we need to use when entering into agreements or submitting formal documents, such as fundraising bids. And it will appear on our letterhead, and on other formal documents such as invoices and purchase orders. The registered office address is the same for each of the nations, even though we have different office locations.
Over the past year, many of us will have been invited to social events online. Festivities have been arranged, but food and drink has had to be ‘Bring Your Own’.
