Berkshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre

28/10/2026

Would you like to raise funds for Berkshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre at no extra cost to yourself AND be in with the chance of winning £200 towards your Christmas food shop?!

Sign up to support the Centre every time you shop online via Give as you Live at www.bmstc.org/shoponline

See the post below for full terms and conditions of the Christmas food shop competition.

🎄 Win your Christmas food shop! We're giving 3 lucky members the chance to win a £200 supermarket voucher each.

Shop with an eligible food and drink retailer through Give as you Live Online and raise a free donation by 15th November for your chance to win!

T&Cs and eligibility apply: https://www.giveasyoulive.com/terms/christmas-food-shop

26/10/2026

On Tuesday 17 November, we will be running a Manual Handling for Carers training session at the Centre.

The session will explore moving and handling techniques and efficient postures to look after yourself and prevent injuries associated with caring duties. It will be led by occupational therapist, Michelle Morley and will be an informal and friendly session and adaptable based on attendees’ needs.

Previous sessions have been very successful, with lots of useful tips and ideas so please do sign up!

Find out more on our website at; https://bmstc.org/carers-training/

24/10/2026

Don't forget to put your clocks back one hour before you go to bed tonight as British Summer Time sadly comes to an end for another year!

This means evenings getting darker (boo) but on the plus side, we get an extra hour in bed on Sunday morning.....

23/10/2026

Christmas is creeping ever closer and it's a huge time of year for us in terms of fundraising. We're already planning our Christmas collections - could you join our fantastic team of volunteer collectors and help make them a huge success?

We need people in Sandhurst on 5 December and on 11 December in Reading Station, where we'll be joined by the brilliant Rock Choir.

Please get in touch with Jackie on [email protected] if you can join the team. Santa hats encouraged!!

22/10/2026

A huge well done and thank you to our amazing team of fundraisers - Jemima, Cosmo, Noah and Leo - who raised a wonderful £919 for the Centre taking part in the Mudder UK event last month!

This gruelling event took place over 15km and featured 20 obstacles and huge amounts of mud - it looks frankly terrifying! We're so grateful to the team for all their amazing efforts which will make a big difference to supporting people with MS.

If you'd like to fundraise for the Centre (it doesn't have to involve mud), please do get in touch. Thank you so much.

21/10/2026

Need advice on benefits and MS? Our friends at MS-UK are running an interesting-sounding webinar on this subject on Friday. See below for details of how to sign up.

💷 Unsure how Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance may apply when you live with MS?

Join John Spraggett from the Department for Work and Pensions for an online information session covering who may be eligible, how the claims process works and how health conditions and disabilities can affect work and benefit support.

Book your place 👇
https://ms-uk.org/understanding-earnings-replacement-benefits/

There will also be an opportunity to ask questions during the session.

📅 Friday 23 October at 1pm - Join live or watch the recording whenever suits you.

The session is included with a monthly or annual subscription. To register as a one off, donations of any amount are welcome, with a suggested contribution of £7.

Please note that this session provides general information and does not offer individual benefit advice.

21/10/2026

Wow, September was our busiest month of the year so far! We supported 303 people with 1,333 treatments, including physiotherapy, oxygen therapy, counselling and more.

Our therapies make a huge difference to the lives of local people living with MS. A big thank you to everyone who made this possible.

19/10/2026

Our thanks to the team at Coloplast for the wonderful Bladder and Bowel care talk and presentation last week . Members really enjoyed the informative and useful session - with some really frank and open conversations, helping to reduce the stigma around what can be such a challenging topic.

Special thanks to Ritz who led the session - continuing her mission to ' break the taboo around wee and poo'!

Thanks to everyone who joined the session and took part in the day.

12/10/2026

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM last week.

Our special thanks go to Herjeet Vass from for very kindly presenting us with the Safe and Sound Award for good governance and to our guest speaker Kate Lang for her inspiring talk around CAR-T Therapy.

As always it was wonderful to come together as a community to celebrate our highlights as well as reflect on our challenges going forward.

06/10/2026

We are very grateful to Henley Town Council for the generous grant of £1,300 to support the work of the Centre. Their support is very much appreciated.