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Volunteer Spotlight – May 2025 – Vicky Greenbank

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Volunteer Spotlight - Friday Peer Support Group - December 2021

Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for December 2021, the Friday Lunch Peer Support Group. The Friday Lunch Peer Support Group was set up online last June as a response to our local support groups b...

Andie's story: How Learning Zone is helping me

Andie has lost two and a half stone in the nine months since she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by changing her eating habits.

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Volunteer Spotlight - November 2021

The great thing about being a trustee is that you can see you’re making a difference and you can contribute to that difference. You have to put the work in, and you don’t get paid of course, but in ...

Liz's story - from personal tragedy to competitive powerlifter

Liz, 47, from Berkshire, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2009. She went on to develop type 2 diabetes. Following a tragic bereavement, she became depressed and began binge eating, making he...

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Jon's story: Joining the diabetes football community helped my mental health

Jon is a PE teacher. He talks about his diagnosis and life with diabetes and being part of the Diabetes Football Community. 

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Type 1 diabetes doesn’t hold me back from my dream career: Kaajal’s story

Kaajal was made to feel different as a child for managing her type 1 diabetes. But diabetes has never kept her from her dream of becoming a designer, helping others with type 1 or enjoying life to the...

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Getting back to nursing after a type 2 diagnosis: Gina’s story

Mother of three, Gina developed sight loss after she was diagnosed with type 2 and worried about how she would continue working as a community nurse or enjoying being at the stables with her horses. B...

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Adapting to a different way of life - young children and diabetes: Libby's story

Jayne and Mike’s daughter Libby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in December 2019. Her mum gave birth to her little sister Lottie six weeks later. Jayne and Mike tell their story.  

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Maureen's story: gaining the confidence to get moving

For months after her diagnosis, Maureen struggled to find a way to manage her diabetes. In her story, she shares how picking up the phone and speaking to our trained advisors helped her kickstart a ne...

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