UK – MS Awareness Week 2026

We're raising awareness of multiple sclerosis in our 2026 MS Awareness Week campaign

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MS Awareness Week 2026 runs from 20 -26 April.

We’re once again partnering with seven of the UK’s biggest MS charities to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis and the issues people with MS have told us about. For 2026 we are challenging MS assumptions and the harm they can cause.

View our campaign video here:

Read more about the research behind the campaign: Think you know MS? Let’s challenge assumptions this MS Awareness Week | Overcoming MS

Read Sarah’s blog: Challenging assumptions: running the London Marathon with MS | Overcoming MS

If you’d like to share your story publicly, please email us at [email protected].

MS charities join together

MSAW is a partnership between leading UK based MS charities, the MS Society, MS-UK, MS Trust, MS Together, the Neuro Therapy Network (previously MS National Therapy Centres), Shift.MS and Talks with MS. We are collaborating to deliver a powerful message of hope and support to more people during MS Awareness Week.

You’ll see all of these charities joining in the conversation to spread awareness.

Resources and support

Think you know MS? Let’s challenge assumptions this MS Awareness Week

New research shows how assumptions about MS are still shaping everyday experiences across the UK.

Community and events

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Living and working with MS: sharing the diagnosis

Knowing when and how to communicate an MS diagnosis with colleagues can be challenging. Here, one OMSer shares how they approached the task of sharing information about the condition with their employers.

Portrait of Hayley showing half her face.

“I focus on the things I can do, rather than the things I can’t”

For MS Awareness Week, we launched MS Unfiltered, a campaign to open up the conversation around difficult symptoms that people with MS struggle to talk about, so that no one feels alone with their symptoms. We spoke with Hayley about some of the MS symptoms she has found most challenging.

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UK – MS Awareness Week 2026

MS charities join together

Resources and support

Think you know MS? Let’s challenge assumptions this MS Awareness Week

Community and events

Living and working with MS: sharing the diagnosis

“I focus on the things I can do, rather than the things I can’t”