What our supporters did, 2011:
Sandy from Nottinghamshire held a large Zumba class Saks Hair, Wetherby & York donated £1 for every client during MS Week Neil displayed posters at a doctor's surgery in Leek Andrew and colleagues at Tesco in March held a cake sale Advanced Business Solutions, Harpenden held a dress down day Leona sold a specially designed range of blue stationary online Brigitte from Rye raised awareness in her pharmacy Lordship Farm School in Letchworth held a blue themed day Pauline from Staffordshire sold homemade cards Philip collected money at Oldham Hospital and in a local shopping centre Staff at BRC Ltd had a cake sale and blue dress down day Empire Cinema in Newcastle raised awareness Beverley from Hampshire held a coffee morning Angela raised awareness with colleagues at Mold Hospital Sutton Bonnington Primary School held a dress down in blue day Gemma and colleagues held a quiz, cake sale, raffle and wore fancy dress Shirley from Cumbria raised awareness in her local shop Marie from Worcestershire held a cake sale The Physio Dept at the Walton Hospital raised awareness Stacey from Lanarkshire sold homemade goods Chantal and colleagues had a blueberry muffin eating competition! Pupils & staff at Rosneath Primary School held a dress down day Samantha from Newcastle held a raffle, quiz and cake sale Lynn from Sheffield will raised awareness at work Maria from Worcestershire sold cakes Lindsay from Stirling gave out information at her school Emily and colleagues held a dress up in blue day Olivia and colleagues held a blue dress down day and cake sale

MS Awareness week, get involved 30 April - 06 May 2012

Help us raise awareness online


For MS Awareness week 2012 we really want to raise awareness of MS to people online, with the help of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. With so many millions of people using social media we think it is a very good place to start reaching out to people! You can help us out with this, by telling everyone that follows you on Twitter or that you are friends with on Facebook about what MS is.

Here are some easy tips to help you get started:

A few easy things we'd like you to do on Facebook to raise awareness of MS

  1. Change your profile picture to something that is blue
  2. Add the MS Trust picbadge to your profile picture
  3. Like the MS Trust Facebook page
  4. Put this coverphoto up on your facebook timeline to show support, right-click to save it and then upload it on facebook as your coverphoto.

A few easy things we'd like you to do on Twitter to raise awareness of MS

  1. Change your profile picture to something that is blue
  2. Add the MS Trust picbadge to your profile picture

Here are some MS Facts for you to Tweet and Share on facebook...

Got your own website or blog? Why not add one of our MS awareness banners to it?

Each banner below has its own code, just copy and paste the code that's underneath the banner that you like the look of into your website and you'll have a banner with a link back to our awareness website! Need some help with this, email our web team, web@mstrust.org.uk

<a href="http://www.msawareness.org.uk"><img src="/msawareness/images/msaw12-banner1.jpg" / ></a>


<a href="http://www.msawareness.org.uk"><img src="/msawareness/images/msaw12-banner3.jpg" / ></a>


<a href="http://www.msawareness.org.uk"><img src="/msawareness/images/msaw12-banner4.jpg" / ></a>


Help raise awareness of MS this year!

Get your free MS Awareness Information pack for more ideas on how to raise awareness of MS, please contact us by email or call 01462 476700

Why not have a MS Awareness info stand?

Write to a local news paper