Cobb Lunch Club raises £16,000 for Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis 

A Brighton-based business networking club has raised £16,000 for a charity that supports people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Last month, nearly 200 Brighton businesses joined together at the Amex for the event which was organised and run by Cobb PR and sponsored by Skerritts, the independent financial advisers based in Hove.

The keynote speaker was Paul Barber, Chief Executive of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, and attendees also heard from Gary McMahon, CEO at Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (OMS). The charity’s trustees, Tony and Linda Bloom, also attended the lunch.

OMS is a charity that educates, supports and empowers people with MS in evidence-based lifestyle and medication choices that improve health outcomes. Professor George Jelinek, who was diagnosed with MS in 1999, developed the rigorously researched recovery programme more than 15 years ago.

“MS touches the lives of so many people and I encourage everybody to promote the work of OMS”

Tim Cobb, Managing Director of Cobb PR, also spoke of the great work of the charity and called on the business community to help spread the word of hope and encouragement to people struggling with the impact of the disease.

He said: “I am so grateful to everyone that supported our annual fundraising lunch. MS touches the lives of so many people and I encourage everybody to promote the work of OMS, which shows that there is light at the end of a sometimes very dark tunnel.”

Auction prizes were donated by a raft of Sussex businesses including a signed Brighton & Hove Albion football shirt, a vineyard tour and wine tasting at Ridgeview as well as a host of restaurant vouchers from some of Brighton’s top hotels and restaurants.