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Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1157579
Status
Registered
Registered
June 25, 2014
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Not Defined

Address

Address
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis
c/o Gravita Oxford LLP
First Floor. Park Central
40/41 Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1JD

Contact

Activities

Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis promotes a program of diet and lifestyle management that has been shown to improve the health and lives of people with MS. Prof. George Jelinek, who was diagnosed with MS in 1999, developed the rigorously researched OMS Recovery Program more than 15 years ago.Overcoming MS (OMS) was established in the UK in 2012 with the goal of expanding awareness of the program.

Objects: 4.1 The only objects for which the Charity is established are to relieve people with multiple sclerosis and to promote public health in relation to multiple sclerosis in particular but not exclusively by:4.1.1 Providing information and advice for people with multiple sclerosis to take control of their health;4.1.2 Fostering a community of support for people with multiple sclerosis and their families;4.1.3 Promoting a holistic approach to multiple sclerosis taking account of people's psychological, physical and social needs and utilising the best available treatments;4.1.4 Promoting and undertaking research into self-help techniques for the management of multiple sclerosis insofar as these are not incompatible with advice received from people's doctor or consultant physician; 4.1.5 Supporting and promoting charities funding multiple sclerosis research; and4.1.6 Advocating with and on behalf of people with multiple sclerosis for healthcare services that enable those individuals to control and improve their health.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
What
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who
People With Disabilities, Other Defined Groups

Areas of operation

Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Dec. 31, 2024 £1,204,378 £983,038 £505,962 13
Dec. 31, 2023 £1,016,960 £1,049,439 £284,622 12
Dec. 31, 2022 £847,954 £1,007,309 £317,101 10
Dec. 31, 2021 £757,131 £715,564 £476,456 9
Dec. 31, 2020 £580,653 £827,572 £434,889 6

Trustees

Name Appointed
Miriam Jordan Keane (Chair) Aug. 18, 2025
Dr Mark Andrew Taylor Aug. 18, 2025
Kieran Christopher Bayles Jan. 5, 2024
Marc Louis Sugarman May 16, 2014
Pauline Hanson June 23, 2023
Penelope Ann Harris May 14, 2024
Samantha Marnie Middlemiss June 23, 2023
Suruchi Saraf Jan. 5, 2024