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anyone do this? £3 a month is it a good idea?
 
Yes, I’ve been a member for many years @gail2 Apart from Balance, I like the idea of supporting Diabetes U.K. in the work they do. So, if you can afford it, I personally think it’s worth it 🙂
 
I agree with @Inka - the magazine is great but it's more about supporting the charity for me - I've just bought one of the hoodies from the shop too (for World Diabetes Awareness Day, tomorrow) and it is very good quality. highly recommended
 
thanks will do i can afford it so its ago
 
have done
 
I am another member in order to support the charity.
I could give of take Balance but it is a nice added extra.
 
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anyone do this? £3 a month is it a good idea?
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I hadn't even known about becoming a Member, so thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure that I want a magazine (this forum gives me loads of useful information anyway) but I'd like to support the Charity.
 
TBH, I thought it was more than £3 a month I shall have to re-subscribe
having moved (several times and changed banks previously
however I know I do still subscribe to DiabetesUK lottery having previously been a member
 
Yes, I’m a member and have been since the start of my “journey”. £3 is nothing these days, it’s more to buy a takeaway coffee I think. I don’t drink coffee so not entirely sure. I quite like the magazine, It can be informative, not enough about Type 3c, but we are a tiny minority, I like the quotes from this forum that they print, as it’s always someone I “know”. But I mainly subscribe to help fund vital research, the magazine is a bonus.
 
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anyone do this? £3 a month is it a good idea?
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Morning same here normally I don’t like charity subscriptions as I am very lazy about managing my bank account and much prefer just donating as and when.
However it is only a small amount and obviously it directly affects me and I only support this,Royal British Legion and a local hospice on a monthly basis.
Lots of great causes but they all seem to want subscriptions rather than one off donations which I understand but just don’t like the habit nature of these ongoing commitments.
 
I pay annually,but nearly stopped a number of years ago from the marketing to try and get me to pay more.
 
How these charities approach fundraising can be very aggressive. We gave a donation to cancer research when other half's father passed away, with not of prostate cancer, but blow me several months later an envelope blazoned with the words 'your subscription is now overdue' was delivered. I'm afraid that really incensed me.
 
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How these charities approach fundraising can be very aggressive. We gave a donation to cancer research when other half's father passed away, with not of prostate cancer, but blow me several months later an envelope blazoned with the words 'your subscription is now overdue' was delivered. I'm afraid that really incensed me.
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This was how I felt at the time of the phone call, and I had just retired and I felt it was pressurising me.
 
We get begging letters from all over the place wanting us to leave all sorts of charities money in our Will. Mostly go straight into the bin, ditto all the other c**p eg Pete had a communique from someone or another apparently 'Working with the NHS' telling him he's entitled to a free eye health check blah blah and they can come to him if he can't get to one himself. We've both been having annual free eye tests for years thanks, both had same a couple of months ago and both pay for our glasses without (now in both cases) the NHS having direct involvement other than the optometrist having to quote his GMC number on documents, so if we need referral elsewhere for anything outside their remit eg catarcts or whatever, so if not their normal day to day paperwork they have to submit for everyone &/or need for their own records, he has to fish his card out of his wallet in the inside top pocket of his jacket for his number in order to sign the referral.

Like so many other things about life in general just (yet) another bit of rubbish we all have to rise above.
 
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Thanks for supporting Diabetes UK @gail2 🙂

Yes I have been a supporting member for a few years now. I like the research updates in balance, though I confess I can’t always find the time to read it cover to cover.

When I was first diagnosed (before the internet was much of a thing), it was one of the main sources of updates and information!
 
Glad I saw this post have now re-subscribed and even ordered some merchandise
 
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