AllTrails now in our 12th year, are thrilled to continue our association with the MS Australia, joining us on cycle tours from city to city around Australia.
The challenge is there for everyone to get on their bike and meet new friends, see the glorious reds of the outback, smell the eucalypts and wild flowers, hear the birds and taste the wonderful food and wine from the local areas.
In February 2008 MS Australia and AllTrails Bicycle Tours launched their partnership in conjunction with cyclists, who seek personal and corporate sponsors to donate money to MS Australia. Cyclists register and create their own fundraising page online. For more information on MS Australia, please visit www.msaustralia.org.au
AllTrails, in conjunction with MS Australia, are very excited about the Riding for Wheels Project - giving the gift of wheelchairs to those in need.
Currently over $50,000 has been raised through this project, providing wheelchairs to 3 people that would otherwise have no access to a mobility aid.
There is an estimated 18,000 people living with Multiple Sclerosis in Australia. MS Australia programs extend from funding clinical research, education, respite to in home carer support. A typical diagnosis of MS will occur when you’re 30 years of age and there is no cure. Within 10 years of diagnosis 80% of all people with MS will slip out of the work force and over 20% of people with MS will be classified as paraplegics or quadriplegics.
MS is not only a neurological disease, attacking the spinal cord and brain, it is also one of social isolation and financial hardship.
This is particularly pressing for those people under 55 in high care nursing homes (mostly to serve Aged Care), but are not eligible to My Future My Choice Funding (<50yo in nursing care) and were moved to a nursing home prior to a funding application for mobility aids. Once in a nursing home you can not get funding (if you are over 50) for mobility aids.
MS Australia has an urgent need to assist a number of people with MS in this exact situation. Under 55, in a high care nursing home, without access to an electric wheelchair.
These chairs are not cheap, typically costing $15,000 per chair. We need your help to address the financial and social impact of MS. AllTrails has created an Everyday Hero Page making it easy for you to help us raise $150,000! This will give 10 people their own wheelchair and put their lives back in motion. 100% of all money donated will go into funding the purchase of 10 wheelchairs. One by one we can give the gift of wheels.
Come and join us as we cycle Australia Ride, with the option to sponsor or be sponsored for MS Australia.
To donate to the Riding For Wheels Project, click on the link below:
To create your own fundraising page, click on MS Fundraising below:
"MS Australia strives for a world without multiple sclerosis through quality research and for service excellence to people with multiple sclerosis and their carers."
MS Australia has been supporting and helping people with multiple sclerosis (MS) since 1956.
Through an extensive network of centres, branches, support groups and health services, MS Australia provides specialist programs to people with MS, their families, carers, friends and health care professionals.
MS Australia informs people with multiple sclerosis how best to achieve as full and healthy a lifestyle as possible while managing the symptoms of MS, raises funds for the provision of services, programs and research, educates the community, and liaises with government and other bodies on MS-related issues.
FreeCall: 1800 CURE MS (1800 2873 67) MS Fundraising
