Black History Month 2022: Led by the community

The Black MS Foundation

Natalie is the founder of the Black MS Foundation, a community organisation for Black people who have MS to come together, see people like themselves, gain information about MS and share how they feel. The Black MS Foundation website encourages people to share their stories as part of their awareness raising campaign #MyMSIsBlack.

Share your story with #MyMSIsBlack

Talks with MS

Terri-Louise Brown is the founder of Talks With MS. Talks With MS is a big sister/brother platform for people to speak freely about their diagnosis, the impact it has on their life and those around them. They actively advance public education about multiple sclerosis while promoting activities to foster understanding between people from the Black community.

Visit the Talks with MS Instagram page

Terri-Louise lives with MS. Her younger brother Daniel was also diagnosed in September 2009. Terri-Louise organises in-person support groups, networking events and online webinars to help people affected by MS find the information they need. And we’re proud to collaborate with Talks With MS on our Living Well webinar programme.

Explore our upcoming Living Well events

Not just a month

Black History Month is a chance for us to join with other charities and groups celebrating Black communities. We make more impact by speaking together. But we're committed to improving representation all year round, not just in October.

We know we have a way to go to be truly representative of our whole MS community. We’re working through an action plan to improve representation throughout our organisation. And provide services and support for everyone.

One of the ways we’re doing that is by building connections through our Leaders by Experience Programme. And making sure we co-design our campaigns with people of all ages, cultural heritages, genders, sexual orientations and economic backgrounds.