Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week is held annually to increase awareness of the condition and unite those living with MS, along with their supporters, to share their experiences and break the silence surrounding it.
In recent years, the campaign has focused on how MS impacts various aspects of daily life, including employment, relationships, mental health, sex, and parenting. By highlighting real-life experiences and scientific research, Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week encourages open conversations about symptoms, diagnosis, and life with MS.
We estimate there are over 150,000 people with MS in the UK, and that nearly 7,100 people are newly diagnosed each year. – MS Society
Find an inspirational Multiple Sclerosis Week Speaker.
At Great British Speakers, we work alongside some of the country’s most inspirational and motivational disability speakers. They all have personal and/or professional reasons why they believe disability is an important topic to discuss in the workplace and healthcare settings.
Introducing Dave Walsh
Being a hands-on father to three young children and an aspiring strongman, Dave Walsh’s life was turned upside down overnight. He went from climbing mountains in the British Army to being unable to climb the stairs after a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. Although his ‘new normal’ is a far cry from his former life, and the journey to get there has been fraught with mental health issues, Dave is now a popular disability speaker our featured Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week Speaker and was named the World’s Strongest Disabled Man 2022 and retained it and Britain’s Strongest Disabled man in 2023. Learn more about Dave Walsh HERE.
