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Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for March 2023, Parveen Khan Parveen started volunteering to give something back to her community.

Meet Grace, 21, from Ballykelly, Northern Ireland.

Meet our Volunteer Spotlight for February 2023, Jenny Clarke Jenny has had type 1 diabetes for 33 years and has been 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.

Prity’s son Avishay, aged 10 years, took part in the Diabetes UK and JDRF funded ELSA study t

Amanda’s eldest daughter Isabella was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2014.

Meet our November Volunteer Spotlight, Dr Carol Homden CBE

Meera was told she was at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2020, after her GP carried out some routine blood tests.

Diagnosed in her teens with type 2 diabetes, Shannon spent many years feeling overwhelmed by her condition but signing up