Paul Presents Berkshire MS Therapy Centre with Freia Pagdin

Paul chats to Freia Pagdin, a Senior Fundraising Manger for local charity Berkshire MS Therapy Centre

The Centre, based in Reading offers treatment and support to those living with MS – with specialist physiotherapy and exercise, oxygen treatment, footcare, counselling and complementary therapies.

The Centre offers their services free of charge, on a donation only basis and a highly subsidised rate for complementary therapies. Berkshire MS Therapy Centre supports people from throughout Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey and also offers some
online classes in exercise and yoga.

Each year, they support over 400 members, their families and carers, delivering more than 15,000 treatments.

It costs just over £650,000 a year to keep the Centre running, with no NHS or national MS organisation funding, relying on donations and fundraising efforts to keep the Centre open.