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Leamington Mayor's Charity Walk
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The annual Leamington Mayor's Charity Walk around the Royal Showground at Stoneleigh took place in May.
An intrepid group of walkers raised over £700 for group funds.
Congratulations on a great effort!
People with diabetes cannot eat grapes or bananas... or can they?
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A snapshot survey by dietitians found that people with diabetes are confused about what foods they can and cannot eat.
The survey of dietitians working in diabetes was carried out by the Diabetes Management and Education Group of the British Dietetic Association (BDA) to coincide with Diabetes Awareness Week (8-14th June 2008).
Click here to download the press release (PDF file, 55k).
The BDA has a range of fact sheets available to download from their website, including one called "Food Choices & Diabetes"
For more news and information from the BDA, please click here to visit their website.
Leamington Christmas Market
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The photo shows our team manning the Tombola Stall at Leamington's Christmas Market.
Thanks to everyone who helped or contributed.
Diabetes UK Collection
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The Group held a collection for Diabetes UK at Sainsbury's supermarket, Leamington Spa on 30th November and 1st December 2007.
Over the two days our team collected £1,020.05 which was magnificent and much higher than we dreamed.
Thanks to all who helped or contributed.
Brenda Gutteridge receives Lawrence Medal
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One of our most ardent supporters, Brenda Gutteridge, has completed 60 years living with diabetes and to mark this achievement she was presented with the Lawrence Medal by Professor Harry Keen, Honorary Vice President of Diabetes UK and Professor Emeritus at King’s College Hospital, London.
Brenda has personally raised around £2,500 for our funds in recent years, organising, with the help of husband Paul, a Coffee Morning, a Hot Dog lunch, a Fashion Show, a Race Night and various raffles.
Congratulations Brenda! Forwards and onwards to the 70th milestone!
Under Diabetes UK’s “Adopt a Project” scheme, our group support the work of the Islet Transplant Laboratory in Worcester. Donations made so far exceed £33,000.
A similar sum has also been donated to diabetes research.
Locally, and as a result of an appeal by the group, a retinal camera (for photographing the back of the eye to detect diabetes eye problems) has been installed at Warwick Hospital at a cost of £64,000.
Other donations include Foot Dopplers for Podiatry Services (£4,500), Blood Glucose probes for children’s diabetes care (£2,000), educational ‘hardware’ for diabetes education courses for patients (£5,000) and two educational literature packs for each of the 253 schools in Warwickshire (£2,300).
