Following the huge success of our half-day Retreat in July, MS Positive is running a further Retreat this autumn for people dealing with MS. The session, on Friday 30th November (unassisted walking/with sticks), will include discussions on wellbeing and health eating, core strengthening exercises and pilates, and are free to all those with MS on [...]
Hi I'm Matt and I’ve been working with Toni and MS Positive since the start of September 2018, although I have been doing Pilates and Tai Chi classes since the Mitzvah day in November 2017. The classes have really had many positive effects on me, both physically and mentally. Like every MS patient I could [...]
Medical cannabis - which is thought to provide relief from pain and muscle spasms for some people with MS - is to be made available on prescription after being approved for use by the Government. Doctors will be able to prescribe medicine derived from marijuana “by the autumn” the Home Office has announced. The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, [...]
Over a hundred MS Positive supporters gathered on Wednesday (20th June) at the Hampstead Golf Club to play golf and to support the charity. Playing four balls, the eventual champions were a team from the Rising Sun Pub in Mill Hill, but in true charity golf fashion everyone was a winner. With food and drink [...]
Today has been an amazing day. I was brought an angel. I woke up to an email on my MS POSITIVE address: it was from a newly diagnosed lady of 46. She wrote to me about her fears, so immediately phoned her, I went to meet up with her, It was like looking at a [...]
June! Positively brimming with FREE things! As a rule we all usually take our good health for granted and it's only when we are struck down with an illness we begin to see the value in what we have. We value health above all else which is why we are working along side MS Positive, [...]
MS Positive founder, Toni Krok, was proud to be asked to address a meeting of JEMS, the Jewish MS support group in North London last night (Wednesday 2nd May). This is what she said: MS POSITIVE was started with the attitude of positivity and of course to try telling the truth about how this [...]
Following on from Toni’s momentous climb up Mount Etna last October, raising £80,000 to launch MS Positive, she’s been at it again! This time she has been on holiday trekking through the snow and the mountains in the French Alpine resort of Courcheval. No wonder she calls it the MS Charity with the “can-do attitude”. [...]
Living with MS can often come with financial as well as medical complications: for some, this might take the form of making it hard to hold down a job or to undertake caring responsibilities; for others it just makes life more expensive, forcing those with MS to use taxis or maintain a car rather than [...]