[janep5 years ago]

There is a UK National MS awareness week, this year it’s 29th April to the 5th May and the MS Society and MS Trust are both running various orange and blue events. Perhaps we should be wearing shift-green ribbons though!! 🙂

[markms5 years ago]

i have not seen anything on these though the only ones to tell me were you and shift how bad is that yeh a green shift.ms bow ribon sounds good what you think shift?

[markms5 years ago]

yeh what you think shift green ribbons sounds good to me thanks janep

[gpeps5 years ago]

I love the idea of the ‘green’ ribbons @janep !

@markms – what would you like out of an MS month/ week / day ?

[markms5 years ago]

lets have ms month then see how it goes then every one will get to know about ms and how it is so diffrent for so many of us

[JustJones5 years ago]

How about you guys at Shift.ms towers come up with an action plan for shift.ms users part in MS Week, it could be a quick win campaigning hit!

having had a look at the info on MS Trust and MS society websites re: MS Awareness Week the broad aims are:
raising the profile of MS
raising the profile of MS Nurses and sharing success stories.
raising funds for their respective organisations.

Why not reflect this in shift.ms’s contribution?

It could all be done under the banner of shift.ms’s awesome motto.

raising the profile of MS:
Shift.ms already has two REALLY good videos talking about DX and life with MS… as well as all the PHP’s) If you sign up to the campaign you’ll commit to proactively sharing these video’s and shift.ms.

shift.ms could even draft us a campaign email to send…. so we can send it to the New CCG’s that are springing up, to the local press, to local community groups, to other voluntary organisations, friends, family, colleagues, students… and so on.

Sharing the successes of MS Nurses. We could have a “sticky” post on the forum, sharing stories of experiences and the value they can bring to our experience of health services.

these could then be shared with newly diagnosed MSers… the could also potentially be shared with the relevant NHS trusts… to show what real people with MS think of the services we receive. It could also be broadly fed into the MS trusts campaigning work.

And when it comes to fundraising…. it couldn’t be easier… I followed the link of the shift.ms website and donated some money the other week.

not that i’m suggesting that we all do blue peter style bring and buy sale’s…. but I bet if EVERYONE on here sold ONE thing on ebay in that week… we could raise a few pounds to help keep things ticking over for shift.ms.

It would just need writing up, branding and wildly publishing to all the shift.ms community.

I say Just… I do appreciate how much work goes into this kind of activity… but it is achievable!)

just some ideas.

[hugmachine5 years ago]

eh i thought march was MS awareness month in the uk?

[stumbler5 years ago]

Alas, in the UK we can only be bothered with a week:-
http://www.mstrust.org.uk/msawareness/

The US does a month.

[markms5 years ago]

can we not start doing a month us and shift cos ms society dont seem to be botherd and dont reply when you email them any thoughts?

[msue625 years ago]

March is MS awareness month in the UK but it doesn’t seem to be widely recognised. Ah.

[f3ng5hu15 years ago]

I think it’s a great idea Mark.

Prior to my diagnosis nearly a year and a half ago, I hadn’t a clue what ms was although I’d heard of it.

I think that is the case for a lot of people, they know of it, or someone who has it but don’t really know what it is or does.