Michelle Mitchell OBE

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Michelle was our CEO from 2013 to 2018. She joined us after seeing the huge impact that living with MS can have on individuals and families.

She refocussed our work on the things that people with MS have said are important to them like campaigning for better access to treatments, services and welfare benefits. And in 2016, she ran the London Marathon to raise vital funds for MS research.

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Putting MS at the heart of the national elections

It may seem like no time at all since the 2015 UK General Election but for campaigners in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there are important elections just around the corner.

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The Autumn Statement: what does it mean for people with MS?

Yesterday, the Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the Autumn Statement to a crowded room of MPs. And after a year of change, everyone was curious to see where the Government would be spending its money in the next year.

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Gardens, giving and wellbeing: a partnership in bloom

This time last week I was cycling through the San Francisco Botanical Gardens during my few hours off before the International Progressive MS Alliance’s scientific congress on addressing the challenges and new horizons in progressive MS.

Read about gardens and MS