MS Awareness Week 2025 Collection - 15 - 22 September 2025 

We really enjoy MS Awareness Week each year, as it's a time when some of our WMS community come together to advance our mission, to enable people with MS to live their best lives.

Three generations of the wonderful Sinai family collecting in 2024. Clockwise from L: Diane, Christie and Winter       

      

      

This year's MS Awareness Week will be held from 15 - 22 September 2025.

MS Awareness Week is our biggest opportunity to raise awareness about MS and fundraise to support our small charity, which needs to fundraise about 2/3rd of what it spends each year. So please get involved if you can, so Wellington MS can carry on enabling people with MS in greater Wellington to live their best lives.

This year's MS Awareness Week is themed ‘Time Matters in MS’. The campaign seeks to educate people about the possible early symptoms of MS so more individuals can recognise the signs, take action and get a timely diagnosis.

If you're able to help with this year's collection talk to your Community Advisor or email suzie@wellingtonms.org.nz.

The Wellington MS Awareness Week Campaign

As per previous years, we will be holding collections at selected supermarkets and near Wellington Railway station, poster campaigns at selected libraries and other events and activities in key locations around the motu. These include:

Day Activity Location
Monday 15 September 2025 Supermarket collection
  • Carterton New World
     
Wednesday 17 September 2025 Street collection by the Wellington MS Committee & friends between 7 - 9am
  • On CBD streets near Wellington Railway Station
     
Thursday 18 September 2025 Supermarket Collection
  • Woolworths Queen St Upper Hutt
     
Friday 19 September 2025  Supermarket Collections
  • Wellington City New World (Chaffers) 
  • Thorndon New World
  • Porirua New World
  • Waikanae New World
  • Pak'nSave Petone
  • New World Hutt City
  • Silverstream New World
     
   Street collection
  •  Outside St Peter's Church, Paekakariki Village

 
     
 15 - 22 September   Poster campaigns at selected libraries  Wellington City Libraries
 Porirua Libraries
 Kapiti Libraries

 

 

If you or your group are interested in hosting an event or joining one of our collections please get in touch with suzie@wellingtonms.org.nz or call on 022 479 9188. We're still finalising arrangements at some sites, so a few more places may still be added.

About the MS Awareness Week Campaign and MSNZ

Our awareness week campaign is part of a national effort spearheaded by MSNZ. Each year, Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand runs a nationwide campaign to increase awareness of multiple sclerosis, a chronic condition affecting more than 5000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand. MSNZ aims to empower people with knowledge, advocate for better access to treatments and assist people to live well with MS.

In 2024 MSNZ launched a new 3-year campaign, focusing on recognising the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis and highlighting that time matters and that early diagnosis and treatment improves outcomes.

You can learn more about last year's MSNZ MS Awareness campaign on the MSNZ website at https://msnz.org.nz/events/awareness-week-2024-time-matters-in-ms/. I will post the link to this year's campaign when one becomes available.