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Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for February 2023, Jenny Clarke Jenny has had type 1 diabetes for 33 years and has been a General Volunteer and Lead Volunteer at our Type 1 Events. She’s volunteered a...

Mala was diagnosed with prediabetes just as lockdown was easing in April 2021. And a few months before her wedding.

Diagnosed at 26 with type 2 diabetes and misdiagnosed almost a year later with type 1, it took another two years for Hannah’s type 2 diagnosis to be confirmed. Now 29, Hannah wants to make others awar...

Prity’s son Avishay, aged 10 years, took part in the Diabetes UK and JDRF funded ELSA study to find out his future risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Prity told us their story.

Amanda’s eldest daughter Isabella was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2014. Amanda decided to take part in the Diabetes UK and JDRF funded ELSA study to have her younger children – Kieran, Liam and ...

Meet our November Volunteer Spotlight, Dr Carol Homden CBE To mark Trustees’ Week, we sat down with Dr Carol Homden, Chair of our Board of Trustees, to ask her some questions about her experience. ...

Meera was told she was at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2020, after her GP carried out some routine blood tests. She decided to join the Diabetes Prevention Programme to not only lower her ris...

Diagnosed in her teens with type 2 diabetes, Shannon spent many years feeling overwhelmed by her condition but signing up to one of our fundraising events, Month of Miles, gave her a new perspect...

Sophie's diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, after falling seriously ill with DKA, at age 13 came as a total shock to her mum, Clare. Now, Clare talks about the importance of recognising the symptoms of DKA...

David Childs, ReTUNE participant and now in remission of type 2 diabetes, shares his journey.