Sundays at 3pm
MS-UK’s Peer Support service is dedicated to providing support to anyone living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Our peer pods provide a safe and friendly online space for people to connect with others for conversation, companionship, and mutual peer support.
If you are interested in joining this or any of our Peer Pods, or would like more information, please fill in our enquiry form by clicking the button. Vicky, our Peer Support Coordinator will be in touch with you shortly.
Since the development of the service early last year, we have seen this community continue to grow and it has been a real pleasure to see what a difference these new support networks and friendships are making to those that attend.
Up until now, we have run a variety of pods at various times and days throughout the week, but we realise that MS doesn’t just stop at weekends – indeed, it’s at this time that you may feel particularly lonely – so we are delighted to announce that we have now created a Sunday Drop-in pod that will run every week at 3pm.
As with our other Drop-in pods, this will be a space where you can speak openly and freely about anything that matters to you, whether MS related or not, with others that completely understand.
The first session will be held every Sunday at 2pm, and if you would like details for this or any other peer pod, please fill out our sign up form below. Vicky, our Peer Support Coordinator, will get in touch with you shortly.
Hi, I’m Rory and I live in Suffolk. After 4 years of being treated for “Sports related injuries” I was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS in 2014, this has since been amended to ‘Active PPMS’. I work from home on a full-time basis as an Analyst for a Financial organisation. I married my wife in 2017 after meeting in a modern way via Match.com in 2016. Between us, we have 5 children and 4 grandchildren. In my spare time, I am very heavily involved in both parkrun and junior parkrun which takes up most of my Saturday and Sunday mornings as well as some time during the week!
I am looking forward to hosting a weekend Peer Pod and bringing this fantastic community initiative to both existing and new Peer Pod participants.
Hi, I’m Gail and I was diagnosed with RRMS in 2022 after having frequent unexplainable falls that I couldn’t get up from. Then while driving I suddenly started seeing two of everything. I managed to turn the car around and safely get home, that was the last time I ever drove
When I was diagnosed, I was just so relieved that it wasn’t a brain tumour that I decided to just accept things and view it as the next chapter of my life.
I work full time for Nottinghamshire County Council, which thanks to Covid, is mostly hybrid working and I have an amazing and supportive husband who has embraced this new stage of our lives with the grace and wisdom it needs (and I know not everyone, with or without MS is lucky enough to say that).
I love the peer pods especially the Sunday Afternoon Drop-In because it gives me a chance to meet people with MS from all over the country. We don’t always talk about MS, but when we do I know that the people I’m talking to “get it”.
My aim in being a Co-Host is for people to leave the pod feeling better than when they came in. We have humour, we share knowledge (not just MS knowledge – I recently learnt who Olly Murs is) and it is a safe space for people to talk about the realities of life without judgement.
