Bristol Diabetes Support Group
Welcome to our website.
The Bristol Diabetes Support Group has just been formed by people with diabetes to help support people in the Bristol and surrounding South Gloucestershire area.
With the help of Diabetes UK (South West) a meeting was arranged and several volunteers came forward to look at supporting people and carers of people with diabetes.
As the area is quite large, we have decided to set up support groups to cover the areas to the North, South, East and West. We have now formed a group to meet on the east side of the area at Kingswood to cover BS5, BS15, and BS16, and our future work is to arrange meetings for people living in the north and south.
Set up a group in your area?
If you would like to help set up a group in your area of Bristol, please contact us and we will arrange a meeting to help, advise and assist.
Donation
We would like to thank the members and committee of the Bristol Organ and Keyboard Society for their donation of a cheque for £290 raised by them at a charity dance, also a special thanks to Margaret and Nic Swift for the music and organisation.
Quartet Community Foundation Grant
Bristol Diabetes Group would like to acknowledge a grant award of £1,000 from the Quartet Community Foundation of Sports Relief Community Cash. This will give us the opportunity to make more people aware, of the support, understanding and friendship we can offer, for local people with diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes Blogger in Bristol
The large majority of diabetics have the more common Type 2 diabetes, this is a condition where insulin production slowly declines &/or insulin resistance slowly increases. In Type 1 diabetes insulin production declines to nothing very quickly indeed.
Twenty years after diagnosis, below is a blog from a family coping with Type 1 diabetes. The Bristol support group do give our thanks to Mike, Jane, Beth and Ellen for sharing this.
Living with diabetes - every day ups and downs. A collection of thoughts, observations, comments and questions from a family sharing there thoughts on living with type 1 Diabetes in the UK.
Diabetes Challenge
TV presenter Dominic Littlewood, who has Type 1 diabetes, is backing leading health charity Diabetes UK in 2010 by calling on others to make their New Year's resolution a Diabetes Challenge via the leading health charity's new website www.diabeteschallenge.org.uk.
Diabetes Challenge is a fun and interactive website that enables anybody to challenge themselves or someone else to raise funds for Diabetes UK by taking on a given challenge. Challenges can be anything from losing a turkey in weight, being silent at work for an hour to walking the Great Wall of China.
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The information presented on this website is for general use only. If you have questions or concerns about individual health matters or the management of your diabetes, please consult your diabetes care team. Products highlighted on this website are not necessarily endorsed by Diabetes UK.