Multiple Sclerosis
MSMustStop
Fundraising for Multiple Sclerosis Society
Story
I had only had my wheelchair 3 months when I decided to tackle the London Marathon. I had just 5 months to prepare! I have ordered a proper racing chair from Denmark but that doesn’t come until February, so I started training in my normal “day-chair”. I looked like an escapee from the local nursing home as I raced round the housing estate near my house and I acted as a very effective traffic calming measure, as so many kind car drivers stopped to see if I was ok! So in December I got some amazing Invictus training rollers to put in my garage so training is now safer, easier and drier.
Sara Weller CBE
I am taking part in the London Marathon on April 23rd, in my wheelchair, raising money for MS research. I would love you to support me. Find out more at www.msmuststop.org.uk
In 2009 I was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). It is incurable, still largely untreatable and relentless. I am determined to live each day to the full and raise as much money as I can for MS research, so those who come after me have more hope and more certainty for their futures. With a small team, I launched MS Must Stop in the summer of 2022, to raise awareness of the condition. But after I started using a wheelchair in the autumn of 2022, I decided it was time for a new challenge - my toughest yet…
MS Must Stop: The Race Begins
Not just the race to 23rd April, competing in the London Marathon but the race to find the treatments people with MS urgently need. It’s a race to stop progression in MS and give people their futures back! Help us win the race. Donate now!
I will be the first FTSE Non-Executive Director to complete the London Marathon in a wheelchair, and I've not even been using it for 6 months yet!
The Stop MS Appeal aims to raise £100m to fund the research that will lead to treatments to stop MS progression. Our MS Must Stop goal is to raise £500,000 and we would love support from large corporations through to individual donors. Many have already helped, by raising awareness (special thanks to BT and The Guardian), pledging to fundraise inside their workplace, sponsoring my race-day wheelchair (thank you Lloyds Banking Group!) and giving online. But there is room for many more to join us. Contact us at msmuststop2023@gmail.com and find out how you can work with us.