For those without support, the challenges of our service personnel, veterans & their dependants living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be incredible lonely and devastate the wellbeing of everyone in their family.
Abigail Hiorns and Helen Spear were the recipients of our fundraiser award for 2025-2026 for the amazing funds that they raised and continue to raise for the group.
Abigail has put a number of collection pots at her place of work and Abigail has agreed to become our official events volunteer in charge of extracting your money to buy raffle tickets at our events. She is very good at this with her persuasive but gentle manner. We all agreed that she very much deserved her fundraising award earlier this year. Thank you for all that you do Abigail
Helen is our talented ‘bag lady’ and smartie lover extraordinaire. She puts her amazing sewing skills to great use and makes the most amazing bags of various types and sizes and sells them at craft events and at our well being weekends. Not content with raising money this way, she fills smartie tubes with £1 coins and donates them to Mutual Support. Thank you for all that you do Helen.
We are delighted to announce that The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund https://www.rafbf.org/ has recently donated £5000 to help us to deliver our well-being weekends to RAF veterans and their dependents living with MS. Our weekends help our beneficiaries to improve their mental wellbeing, relationships with others, reduce social isolation, displacement and loneliness whilst offering access to the wider support that we offer to our community. We aim to inform, engage and assist our service veterans and their families. ‘As one of the Patrons of Mutual Support and as a Clinical Neuropsychologist I believe you cannot put a price on the benefit the Support Weekends have on members. People come broken and return home whole; people come lonely and go home with friends; whole families who come fractured go home in one piece; children who come as young carers go home as themselves once more. These benefits are priceless and life affirming and life changing.’ Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist: DR ANITA ROSE. B.A. (hons), D.Clin Psy., AFBPsS, C. Psychol We are an independently funded and wholly volunteer led charity and are therefore largely reliant on financial benefactors. The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund donation will enable our important work to continue. Irene Greenwood, Welfare Programmes Manager at the RAF Benevolent Fund, said: “Working closely with charities that support the Armed Forces community is central to the Fund’s commitment to the RAF Family. The vital work undertaken by Mutual Support makes a meaningful difference to serving personnel, veterans and their families affected by Multiple Sclerosis. We are proud to stand alongside them and remain ready to offer support whenever it is needed.” About the RAF Benevolent Fund The RAF Benevolent Fund is the RAF’s longest-standing charity for serving and former RAF personnel and their families. We exist to improve the quality of life, independence and wellbeing of the RAF Family through tailored and lasting support. Our promise is simple: One day’s service, a lifetime of support.
https://covenantfund.org.uk
https://www.soldieringon.org/
On the 15th December 2025, Jill Watson (Events Mgr) and Jim Watson (Group Coordinator) were invited to receive two donations from the Freemasons at their Lodge in Lincoln. Stephen Hallberg, Provincial Grand Master for the Provincial Mark Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire presented a cheque for £1000 and Mike Bull from the North Midlands District of Royal and Select Masters presented a cheque for £500.
Mutual Support is extremely grateful for their kind donations, which will be used to provide our young people with the opportunity to participate in activities at Lea Green in April 2026.
The Masons are a fantastic organisation who do amazing work and never boast about it. They are regularly the first to offer funds for disaster relief, such as the hurricane in Jamaica. Thank you the Masons, we are very grateful. For more information about the Freemasons and specifically the Lodge we went to, go to:
markmmlincs.org.uk
We rely on donations and support with every penny donated by you will go towards ensuring families are supported by our specialists. You can donate to Mutual Support directly via bank transfer using the following bank details:
Name: MSS Mutual Support | Bank: Barclays Bank PLC | Sort Code: 20-82-94 | Account Number: 40714887
