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Volunteer Spotlight - September 2023 - Lee Morgan

Lee works as a Special Effects Makeup Artist. He first got involved with Diabetes UK in 2019 when he used his skills to create a series of images representing depression, exhaustion and isolation, hig...

Lucy's Story: Marathons in memory

Lucy runs marathons in memory of her brother James and has done so for several years in various events, always fundraising for Diabetes UK. She shares memories of James, who was diagnosed with type 1 ...

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TV garden presenter Lee Burkhill: Keeping active and managing type 1 diabetes

Lee Burkhill, garden designer and TV presenter, known as the Garden Ninja, shares his experience of living with type 1 diabetes.

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Charlotte’s story: “A Freestyle Libre in my second pregnancy relieved lots of anxiety.”

Charlotte, who has type 1 diabetes has two boys, aged 7 and 4. She had two very different experiences of pregnancy.

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Volunteer Spotlight - August 2023 - Phoebe Halfpenny

Starting out in volunteering Phoebe has volunteered with Diabetes UK for just under a year. The week she started university – which was also the week she started using an insulin pump – she saw one...

Mel & Gregor's Story: the pump would alleviate some of the burdens of daily injections

Initially, after my son Gregor's diagnosis, we had to navigate the complexities of the diabetes management regime. Learning about counting carbs, calculating insulin doses, and adjusting fast-acting a...

Volunteer spotlight – July 2023 – Siddharth Bhattacharyya

A career in diabetes Sid has worked as a Diabetes Dietitian for almost 4 years. He grew up in Australia, where he trained to be a dietitian, before he emigrated to the UK in 2017. Sid’s firs...

Sarah’s story: The importance of raising awareness of diabetes complications

Sarah was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes aged 21 and, now at 45, lives with her husband, Chris, and her house rabbit, Fluffy. 

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Jim's story: It's frustrating to know that the technology is available to others, but I have to wait for it

The journey of living with type one diabetes has been quite an experience for me. I was first diagnosed with type 1 in October 1992, and back then, the available technology for managing diabetes was q...

Katie's Story: Becoming a Young Leader to help other young people navigate type 1 diabetes

When Katie Smith met a former work colleague and discovered that they both live with type 1 diabetes she felt a weight fall off her shoulders.

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