If you are affected by diabetes you’ll know the very serious risks it can bring – the possibility of severe complications and the delicate balance you must achieve to avoid them.

Each year, the experts on our Research Committee sit down and review applications for funding into a wide range of diabetes research projects across the UK. We rigorously review each proposal and only approve the most promising projects – those that could genuinely improve the lives of people with diabetes, help prevent it or lead to a cure.

Of course, research breakthroughs won’t happen overnight. But with carefully planned investment in the right places, they do come. A donation you send now will pay for the vital equipment and experiments to help get us there.

You can help us say ‘yes’ to every excellent research application by giving £10 to our Breakthrough Research Appeal.