Hope Reborn

You can find links to download the single here for just £0.99, and a significant portion of the profits made will be donated equally to Overcoming MS and the MS Society. If you want to make a direct donation to Overcoming MS you can do so here.

Yes, of course. To do this on iTunes:

• Select the Music tab in iTunes (or choose iTunes Store in the Music app). Locate a song and select the arrow next to the price.
• Choose Gift This Song, then enter the recipient’s email address, a message, and a time for delivery.
• Select a theme and choose Buy Gift on the confirmation screen. The recipient receives a link to download the song.

Overcoming MS and the MS Society will receive an equal split of 70% of the profits made from the single downloads.

We will put these funds towards our work and reaching more people to help them improve their mental and physical wellbeing with MS.

There was minimal cost to Overcoming MS – team time to support the project was the main cost. Fabio D’Andrea funded the project in its entirety and Rose Leslie gifted her time. Many others in the film were volunteers.

Fabio is a personal connection to our former Interim CEO, Stephen Richards. He offered to support us by creating a film as he has a personal connection to MS and has a particular interest in the hidden aspects of the disease.

In early discussions with Fabio D’Andrea, a personal friend of our previous Interim CEO Stephen Richards, Fabio suggested that we also partner with the MS Society on this exciting project. We are happy to be partnering with another charity to increase awareness and understanding of what it is like to live with multiple sclerosis.

It’s been a really positive experience to work collaboratively with the MS Society on this awareness raising project. We think it’s really important that people with multiple sclerosis see MS charities working together – we’re also taking this approach in other projects, such as MS Awareness Week UK. We’re still different charities with different focuses but we’re both here for people with MS whether they’ve just been diagnosed or have been living with MS for years.

Evidence from the HOLISM Study shows that following the Overcoming MS Program (the lifestyle as a whole, it is more than a diet) can offer significant improvement in measures of physical, mental and overall quality of life, including reducing fatigue levels. There is an increasing body of evidence to demonstrate the importance of diet quality, stress reduction and mental well-being, as well as regular physical activity on MS symptoms, as well as the long-term trajectory of the condition.

From the start of the project, it’s been vital for us that people with MS played a key role in the story development and in the filming. A group of people living with MS met Fabio to discuss their diagnosis and experience of living with the condition when he was working on the storyline. Lots of volunteers with MS from Overcoming MS and the MS Society also feature in Hope Reborn. We made sure the people we put forward were representative of the diversity of the MS community in terms of ethnicity and how advanced their MS is. Both Overcoming MS and the MS Society asked people with MS to be involved in the filming across multiple days and locations to ensure the film included as many people as possible who are living with MS.