MS Awareness Week Street & Supermarket Collection 2024

It's MS Awareness Week from 9 - 15 September 2024, which means its time for another Street and Supermarket Collection.

Once again, our efforts will be targeted towards Wellington CBD streets and supermarkets around the region, along with a digital campaign. 

Alt text: A banner promoting MS Awareness Week 2024 and the Street & Supermarket WMS Collection

Many of our collectors last year really enjoyed being involved and connecting with others in the MS community. We're incorporating some of the very useful feedback we were given into our planning for this year, such as having more than one collector at a time.

Unfortunately, the amazing volunteer who looked after the two Wellington supermarket collections last year can't help us this time around and, as some of you know, we're filling a couple of vacant posts at present - so we're an even smaller team than usual. That is making supporting some areas even more challenging than usual. 

Volunteers wanted

We are still looking for volunteers to collect for an hour or two at any of the sites below.

Collection Sites

If you want to know more about the collection or can help in anyway please contact Suzie or Lacey.

Bake Sale at Victoria University - Tuesday 10 September

The amazing senior bio-medicine students and lecturers from Victoria and Otago Universities (Wellington) are again holding a Bake Sale for MS Awareness Week. Thanks very much, you support our community with your work and in so many other ways and it is truly appreciated!

Thank You for your support

Thank you in advance for supporting our vital work, the funds will be used for our work enabling people with MS around greater Wellington to live their best lives!

Protecting Your Privacy

If you decide to volunteer to help with our Collection we will use the contact information you've provided for the purposes of communicating with you and coordinating your participation in the Collection. We may need to share that information with other volunteers or employees who are involved too.

All your personal information will be handled in compliance with our Privacy Policy which is available in detail here https://mswellington.org.nz/about-us/privacy-policy/

We would also like to contact you again about to future collections. 

 
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Have fun and look after yourselves

We want everyone who collects for us to enjoy themselves and we want the public and store owners to feel our collectors have been respectful and considerate too. If you'd like to help but are not able to, that's fine - we DO understand. We don't want anyone to overdo it and we don't anyone to go without essentials to make a donation either. 

We'd like our collectors to mind their own safety and well-being and that of others. There is still lots of nasty bugs around including Covid so wear a mask if you need to and use hand sanitiser often. 

Thanks for supporting our important work. The funds raised will support our work enabling PwMS in greater Wellington to live their best lives!