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Volunteer Spotlight - March 2025 - Sophia Alvi and Syed Kerbalai

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Sean’s story: Walking regularly is helping me lower my blood sugar levels

Sean is building up to our Liverpool Wellness walk to improve his health and raise funds for diabetes research.

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Volunteer Spotlight - April 2024 - Misbah

Starting out as a volunteer Misbah moved to the UK when she was very young. Whenever she went home to visit her family, she noticed her mum often rushed to eat, but didn’t know why. She now realise...

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’s story: my time with Our Lives Our Voices

James is a Young Leader involved in the Northern Ireland Youth Programme Our Lives Our Voices. A five-year project supported by the National Lottery Community Fund; Our Lives Our Voices will soon join...

Volunteer Spotlight - March 2024 - Kirsty French

Starting out as a volunteer Kirsty 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...

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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