Your Stories

Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for December 2021, the Friday Lunch Peer Support Group.

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.

The great thing about being a trustee is that you can see you’re making a difference and you can contribute to that difference.

Liz, 47, from Berkshire, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 2009.

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

Kaajal was made to feel different as a child for managing her type 1 diabetes.

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

Jayne and Mike’s daughter Libby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in December 2019.

For months after her diagnosis, Maureen struggled to find a way to manage her diabetes.