The Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire MS Therapy Centre
Registered Charity No: 802510 – Bradbury House, 155 Barkers Lane, Bedford, MK41 9RX
Contact us by email or phone; 01234 325781
We are a charity that provides a wide range of support and therapies to people living with MS
Therapies
Our therapies include: neuro physiotherapy, hydrotherapy & APS pain relief.
Our MS Specialist Nurse can help with all aspects of your MS. We offer a number of complementary therapies such as reflexology, pilates, Bowen and oxygen therapy.
About Us
Our charity, set up in 1983, provides therapies, services and support needed to enable people living with Multiple Sclerosis to self-manage their condition.
If you have MS, please come and see us – there is something here for you.
Read more on our About Us page.
News
Join our charity team as Assistant Manager
Job vacancy at The Bedford MS Therapy Centre.
This is an exciting post, joining a small and friendly team, where no day is the same, working for a well-established and successful independent local charity.
100 Club winners
Congratulations to our 100 club winners in December;
3rd place – Peter Kimber £36.00. 2nd place – Bob & Gillian Calver £55.00. 1st place – Erica Odendaal £75.00.
Thanks to everyone that supported our Charity Art Auction…
We raised an amazing £1,100 that will go towards the cost of running the MS Therapy Centre. Biggest thanks to our volunteer, Bela, who organised the art auction; spending many many hours getting things all ready and raising so much for our charity. Thank you Bela. Bela posted her thanks to the artists and […]
Events
Our monthly charity sales are proving popular again
Next one is Saturday 19th February 2022, from 10am to 12noon.
Then we’ll be holding a charity sale every third Saturday of the month. We can now accept bric-a-brac too.
Congratulations to our wonderful volunteers for raising £922 at our charity sale in January. We know that our visitors enjoyed fantastic bargains and delicious refreshments. Don’t miss out next month – put Saturday 19th February in your diary no.
Visit our popular fashion and bric-a-brac shop
We stock a wide range of good quality clothes and accessories for men and women plus crockery, glassware, jigsaws – all sorts.
And don’t forget that there is a half price sale in our clothing shop Deja Vu.
We are open Monday to Thursday 10am – 2.30pm
Donations of clothes
Online seated Pilates classes
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 11.30
Live Facebook classes on Tuesdays. Zoom pilates class on Thursdays. For the Zoom classes, please see this page for joining details. All welcome.
Mat-based Pilates classes at the MS Therapy Centre
Thursdays 11.30 – 12.30
Call 01234 325781 to book your place.
Tai Chi at the MS Therapy Centre
Tuesdays 1.30 – 2.30
Call 01234 325781 to book your place
Tai Chi at home
We have moved Tai Chi classes back to the MS Therapy Centre. You can still catch up with past online classes. Please go over to the video page of our Facebook site to see the videos.
‘Love to Move’ with MS
Free exercise sessions running on Tuesdays 3 – 4pm
‘Love To Move’ provides a unique mix of physical movement or exercises with activities designed to stimulate cognitive function and either maintain or develop neural pathways and fine motor skills. It is very gentle and suitable for all. Watch the video to find out more.
The sessions will be free so please let us know if you’d like to take part by calling 01234 325781.
Book an appointment with Emma, our MS nurse
Emma can now offer appointments via phone, face to face or video on Tuesdays.
Call or email us to book an appointment: Phone 01234 325781 or email Emma.
Community MS nurse – Miranda
Miranda can see anyone who has a Bedfordshire GP and is not under any other MS Nurse service (eg for disease modifying therapies). NB if you have already given your contact details to Miranda, please still call this number to be added to the list 0345 6024064. Miranda will be seeing people in clinic and in their own homes.
HeartMath
HeartMath is a useful technique that can be taught by Emma, our MS nurse, and then carried out at home. It allows you to connect your heart and feelings, then learn techniques to reduce stress and anxiety. Watch the video to find out more. If you would like to use this technique, please contact the MS Therapy Centre on 01234 325781.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological condition that affects around 107,000 people across the UK.
Many of our members have been telling us how they have really benefited from the support we have been able to provide during the lockdowns.
Colin says…
I cannot really find the right words to express how grateful I am for what the Centre does for me and what it means to me. After 10 weeks of self-isolating I rapidly went downhill.
Returning to the Centre for one-to-one physio is helping me get back to where I was physically a few months before. This helps me to live independently, as I live alone.
The staff always welcome me with a smile, and we have a bit of a laugh together which really gives me a lift.”
Contact us on 01234 325781 to find out about all the ways we can help.
Please help us to keep providing therapies in the future…
We have recently been mailing out our new information pack on the easy ways to leave a legacy for the Beds and Northants MS Therapy Centre in your will. Take a look at the flyer and read the full details.
Free will writing service, with Farewill
We are delighted to have teamed up with Farewill, the number one wills specialist in the UK. Farewill, in the last 12 months, has raised over £100M for charity, been on the front page of a national newspaper and averaged 4.9/5 on Trustpilot.
We have a limited number of free will writing services to offer our supporters, so it’s first come first served.
See us at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
We are always posting the latest news, events and videos at our social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Keep in touch
- Follow our Facebook page which is updated with useful information throughout the week
- Join our Facebook group, where you can chat with other members
We have over 1000 followers and friends on Facebook so please do come and say hello.
We really need your continued support…
During the COVID-19 crisis we continue to offer support and therapies to hundreds of people across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire. We haven\’t been able run most of our fund-raising activities like events, our shops, dinners and performances.
We receive no government or other form of statutory funding
It’s only through people like you that we are able to provide vital therapies and support to people with MS.
Please donate £10, £20 or more today
Most people choose to donate by credit card, using PayPal or through our secure card payment partners, JustGiving.
Please visit JustGiving.com/bnms where you can easily make a secure online donation to the MS Therapy Centre.
Now you can donate by PayPal or via credit card
Opening times
We are open for limited therapies by appointment only.
Please call 01234 325781 for appointments.
We can support you over the phone, or online.
Please call 01234 325781 for a nursing appointment or we can help with exercise via our virtual programmes.
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