About Get Serious

Get Serious is a national campaign underlining the seriousness of diabetes, led by Diabetes UK. Diabetes UK is the leading charity for the three million people in the UK with diabetes.

Get Serious aims to bring together everyone who has a connection with Diabetes UK as well as supporters and members of the public new to the cause - all working towards a shared goal: to Get Serious about diabetes.

Get Serious will get people involved in helping us achieve our mission; that is – to improve the lives of people with diabetes and work towards a future without diabetes.

Sign up to Get Serious

We need to show strength in numbers – only a huge team effort can show how serious we are about putting diabetes at the top of the agenda. So we need your help - to sign up yourself, make a pledge if you can, and to get as many others as you can to sign up to the campaign.

How to sign up

To sign up, visit the Get Serious homepage: www.diabetes.org.uk/GetSerious, text SERIOUS to 84383 or fill out one of our Get Serious postcards and return it in the post.

Why you need to sign up

We need everyone to show their commitment to getting serious about diabetes. By signing up, you are joining a community that is fighting one of the UK’s biggest health challenges:

• One person is diagnosed with diabetes every three minutes, and three people die from diabetes-related complications every hour in the UK.
• There are currently 2.6 million people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK and up to half a million people with Type 2 diabetes who have the condition and don’t know it.
• Diabetes is a serious condition that can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation.

Please encourage others to sign up too

Getting as many people as possible to sign up to Get Serious is vital. Not only does it help us raise awareness of the seriousness of the condition, it brings together a community of people affected by diabetes. It’s this collective voice that will help us put diabetes at the top of the agenda.

Each person that signs up to Get Serious brings us one step closer to making diabetes a priority for everyone.

Make your pledge

As well as signing up to Get Serious, we're inviting all supporters to pledge to do something for diabetes. To help you, we have some suggestions for Get Serious pledges – but you don’t have to follow these, you can do anything you like – no matter how big or small – to show your commitment to getting serious about diabetes.