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Volunteer Spotlight – February 2026 – Muhammad Qureshi

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Rani's story: Living with type 2 diabetes and fasting during Ramadan

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Volunteer Spotlight – February 2026 – Muhammad Qureshi

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Rani's story: Living with type 2 diabetes and fasting during Ramadan

Rani shares her experience of living with type 2 diabetes and embracing Ramadan.
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Hamza's story: Living with type 1 diabetes and embracing the spirit of Ramadan

Hamza shares his experience of living with type 1 diabetes and how he still fully embraces the spirit of Ramadan with his family.  
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Christina’s story: Trying to keep my blood sugar levels below the prediabetic range

Losing weight helped Christina, 35, lower her blood sugar levels to a healthy level. But maintaining this has been difficult, not helped by a new health condition.
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Amy’s story: ELSA and teplizumab offered my daughter hope to delay her type 1 diabetes

Amy is a mental health practitioner from the West Midlands who lives with type 1 diabetes. Her 12-year-old daughter Imogen took part in the ELSA study, which picked up she was in the early stages of t...
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Dino's story: I reversed my prediabetes on a type 2 prevention course

Constandinos (Dino), who lives in Northern Ireland, reversed his prediabetes after weight loss and other health changes with support from an online type 2 prevention course in 2025. He is married, has...
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Julie’s story: making a difference with Swim22

Julie, from Cardiff, tells us about her family’s experience with diabetes and how she took on our Swim22 challenge in support of her son and husband who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2023 and...
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Jessica's story: I lost weight with the help of a type 2 prevention course

Jessica shares her experience of preventing type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes and the benefits of attending an online prevention course.
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Lisa’s story: Navigating an early-stage type 1 diabetes diagnosis

Lisa is a diabetes specialist nurse from Oxford, and lives with type 1 diabetes. Her son, Jack, was found to be in the early stages of developing type 1.In this story, Lisa shares Jack’s experience of...
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Volunteer Spotlight - November 2025 - The Southport and Ormskirk Diabetes Support Group

When Peter noticed a lack of local support for people living with diabetes across Southport and Ormskirk, he decided to act. “There was nothing available offering peer support for people living with d...
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