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MS Awareness Week

For MS Awareness Week 2025, the UK’s biggest MS charities came together to encourage people to have MS conversations.  Stay tuned to find out what our plans are for 2026! (Monday 27 April - Sunday 3 May)

MS conversations are happening all the time and we want to show that opening up about MS can be empowering. Whether it’s a difficult conversation with family member who’s just been diagnosed or taking the step to ask an employer for support, finding the right words might be hard.

That’s why we once again teamed up with other MS charities to share one unified message - talking about MS can be difficult, but it doesn't have to be.

Who took part in MS Awareness Week?

During MS Awareness Week we teamed up with:

  • MS Trust
  • MS Together
  • MS-UK
  • Neuro Therapy Network
  • Overcoming MS
  • Shift.ms
  • Talks with MS

Raise MS awareness through conversation

It's never too late to start your MS conversation. Whether you have MS yourself or want to be there for someone in your life who does. Search #MSConversations to find some we shared in 2025.

MS Week 2025 may be is over. But if you’re hosting a face-to-face meeting to start an MS conversation you can still use our session plan to help you.

 

Start a conversation, online and in person

Get your #MSConversations stared online and in person with these free downloadable materials.

MS Awareness Week community blogs

When words fail

Sarah was diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in 2015. As a professional writer, she shares how MS, at times, has taken away her words.

The doctor who listened

This is Annie’s story of her conversation with her doctor when she was diagnosed with MS, and the kindness and honesty that made all the difference.

Telling my employer about my MS

Emma Hancox lives with relapsing remitting MS. She shared her recent experience of telling her employer about her condition.

Striking the balance at work

Lorraine was diagnosed with MS almost four years ago, but still finds it difficult to make her colleagues aware of the reasonable adjustments she needs at work. For MS Awareness Week, she shares why.

Resources to help you talk about MS

What is MS?

What is MS? Multiple sclerosis is a condition that affects your central nervous system. In MS, the coating that protects your nerves (myelin) is damaged, causing a range of symptoms

Talking about treatment (checklist)

When you see your specialist it’s easy to forget questions that were on your mind. So take this to your next appointment to help you talk through what you want and how to get it.

The "I have MS" card

A free credit card-sized card explaining you have multiple sclerosis (MS) and might need wheelchair access, or to use a toilet. It also helps explain MS might affect the way you walk or talk.

Talking about MS with family and friends

Talking to friends and family

This page takes you through some of the things you might want to consider when telling parents, partners and children you have MS and has some tips about how to tell them and how to deal with their reactions.

Telling people you have MS

This page deals with deciding who to tell and takes you through some of the different reactions you might get and some suggestions about how to deal with them.

Talking about MS

If people know about your MS and how it affects you, they'll be in a better place to offer support if and when you need it.

Talking about MS at work

Working and MS

This section will help you understand what a diagnosis of MS can mean for your working life. There's information for employers, and some practical tools to help you manage your MS at work.

Supporting a colleague with MS

MS is different for everyone. But there are some things you can do to help your colleague feel comfortable in the workplace.

Speak to someone who knows MS

Our free MS Helpline gives emotional support and information to everyone living with MS. We’re here Monday to Friday, 9am to 7pm except bank holidays on 0808 800 8000.

We're a mix of paid staff and volunteers, MS nurses, benefits and legal specialists, health and social care and fitness experts. We all know life with MS.

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