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Volunteer Spotlight – May 2025 – Vicky Greenbank

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Volunteer Spotlight - February 2024 - Aashna Bali

Starting out in volunteering  Aashna was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was nine. Growing up, she’d been to social events run by her diabetes clinic for young people with type 1 diabe...

Freya's Story: Passing on her experience of living with diabetes at school

Freya Haydon resists looking at photographs of herself when she was nine. That was when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and, as she says: “I had no idea what was going on at the time. Looking b...

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Mohammed's story: Educating myself about diet helped put my type 2 diabetes into remission

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Peter’s story: Taking part in an NHS pilot put my type 2 diabetes into remission

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Volunteer Spotlight - December 2023 - Lea Carson

The perfect opportunity  Lea was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 12. From her diagnosis, she was passionate about advocating for people living with diabetes and raising awareness, ...

Volunteer Spotlight - November 2023 - Professor Wasim Hanif

Tell us about yourself and your background. I’m a Professor of Diabetes at University Hospitals Birmingham and a consultant physician. I also have other academic appointments. I’m an Honorary Profe...

Connor’s One Million Step Success

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March 2020, just one week after the schools closed due to Covid, Connor has since been on a mission to raise money for different diabetes charities. A big thank you t...

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