The Orange and Black Ball 2, why is fundraising for MS important

Why Support the MS Society?

Please spare me 5 minutes of your time to read this.

My family have been severely affected by Multiple Sclerosis.

2 members of my immediate family have been diagnosed with MS in the last 10 years and it has had a major impact on us. I lost my mother to MS in 2020.

My youngest sister, was also diagnosed with the condition and has a form of it called secondary progressive. This means that her condition worsens, she has mobility issues and suffers from fatigue. She is unable to work, struggles to drive and doesn't know what the next day holds for her.

Over 130,000 people in the UK have been diagnosed - that's every 1 person in 600 - and there are on average, 100 people diagnosed each week (source).

Yet so few people are aware of it.

I knew nothing about it until it affected my family (and I really wish that was still the case sometimes). It causes so many problems, mobility, speech, bladder, bowel, fatigue, sight and depression - to name but a few.

And it never gets better. Ever.

Each year I try and raise money for the MS Society Cymru. They need community fundraisers like me, to help them give the support needed and work on research to help find a cure and put a STOP to MS.

That is why I support the MS Society - please help me to help them

TOGETHER WE CAN STOP MS

Thanks/Diolch

Kathryn Foot, South Wales Fundraising Group Coordinator

and MS Wales Council Chair