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Aidan’s story: running Omagh 5k for Diabetes UK NI

Aidan is a multi-award-winning photographer and screenwriter from Co. Tyrone who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in May 2023, at the age of 26. This year, Aidan was inspired to take on the Omagh 5K...

James' story: my time with Together Type 1

James is a Young Leader in Together Type 1, the community for young people living with type 1 diabetes run by Diabetes UK and funded by the Steve Morgan Foundation. Before Together Type 1, James ...

Volunteer Spotlight - March 2024 - Kirsty French

Starting out as a volunteerKirsty was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in October 1993, and in December that year she went to a Christmas party organised by the Diabetes UK Glasgow Family Group. She say...

The Path to Remission Programme has changed my life

Following a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, 48-year-old Tim from Somerset joined the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme. Here, he talks about how the programme helped him turn his life around....

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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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