We’ve been hearing from groups that they’ve had enquiries from, or just know of, people struggling with day-to-day costs. With the current cost of living crisis, some groups have asked about offering grants to help with these costs.
But our current Health and Wellbeing grants don’t cover daily living costs. The process is focused on more specialised items, and isn’t designed for everyday items.
As you know, providing an environment where we can keep everyone safe must be a key consideration for every event or activity we plan. This is why we have a risk management system. And, to ensure that we’re meeting our legal obligations and duty of care, we also carry out risk management audits.
Before the pandemic, we completed these audits in person. An MS Society staff member would visit each group to look at their paperwork and check that their risk management met the required standards.
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Some time ago, we started giving individual MS Society (MSS) email addresses to volunteers in certain roles. Our clear expectation was that volunteers must use these whenever communicating with an external person or organisation by email on our behalf, in order to
Maintaining accurate data on the Portal is important all year round. And spring is a great time of year to ensure your group’s information is as up to date as possible!
The Portal is a platform which displays important information we hold on our central database about our volunteers. Only local group volunteers in some roles and MS Society staff have access to it. It also allows local groups to share information about the services and activities they offer via the main MS Society website.
Congratulations to Sharon Hier, Group Coordinator of our Swansea and District Group!
Sharon's one of 500 outstanding volunteers in the UK (29 from Wales) to be chosen as the nation's Coronation Champions.
Photo: Sharon Hier with Wales' First Minister, Mark Drakeford
The award was made in recognition of Sharon's commitment to the MS community across Swansea and Carmarthenshire. While living with relapsing remitting MS herself, she raises awareness of MS and does all she can to improve the lives of others affected by it.
Please note that the MS Society Designs service will be closed from Friday 12 May until Monday 22 May 2023. Last orders for designs to be created will be Tuesday 9 May.
Design orders will continue to be processed from Monday 22 May 2023.
If you have any queries, please contact the Marketing and Brand Team on [email protected].
During the pandemic we all got much more used to communicating online. And there are now even more ways for us to share information, ideas and feedback.
One of our Community Development Officers, Paula MacGillivray, is in the final stages of completing her apprenticeship in Business Management, which the MS Society has supported. This means her research and assignments need to be of relevance to the organisation.
