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ianf0ster said:
I'm not a member and won't be unless they change their stance on appropriate diets and sponsorship by the companies that give us T2D in the first place.
This Forum however is a much better place for a Type 2 to get advice.
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The more of us join the more power DUK has to turn away sponsorship from corporates. However I fully appreciate your point.
 
Mark C said:
I was around here a couple of weeks after diagnosis in August and then became a member.

My way of thanking the site for the advice and support I've had from everyone here.
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I’d made donations but I’d not actually joined until recently and the work situation was more stable.
 
Ditto said:
Thank you. Peoples are very obliging on this forum. 🙂

Good grief, it won't let me do it, says error on the form.
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Just go to the DUK homepage and click on membership. If it doesn’t work for off an email to them and let them know what device and browser you’re using so that they can sort out what’s wrong.
 
ianf0ster said:
I'm not a member and won't be unless they change their stance on appropriate diets and sponsorship by the companies that give us T2D in the first place.
This Forum however is a much better place for a Type 2 to get advice.
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Hi. I share the same view and resigned membership a few years back for three reasons. The dietary advice is not good and comes from PHE. DUK had a very rigid view on T2 versus T1 and didn't recognise LADA. Plus too close to bodies in the food industry (same as PHE) plus some others. Sorry folks but changes were needed when I left and I have no idea whether there have been any changes?
 
My Mum joined for me in 1978 when it was the BDA and my only source of diabetes information back then pre internet. She still has it delivered to her address with my name on. I joined for myself in about 1990 and find it interesting to read what's going on. If my few £'s a month can help in any way then I'm happy with that.
 
mikeyB said:
I did it t’other way about. I’d been a member and contributor to DUK in all its iterations long before I joined the forum. I expect quite a few of us did it that way round.
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Yep - some of us did ! I had a break in my membership, solely caused by lack of £££££.
 
ColinUK said:
I work in charity fundraising and hopefully nobody pressurised you. Obviously there’s a need to ask for support and it makes sense to ask those already supporting whether they can do more. But you can always opt out of fundraising calls, emails, post etc.
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I was already paying a yearly membership, the call was trying to get me to increase my payment, I can't remember by how much by now! What annoyed was the pressurised way it was approached. I did not increase but I had not long retired when I got the call. I have continued the membership.
 
DaveB said:
Hi. I share the same view and resigned membership a few years back for three reasons. The dietary advice is not good and comes from PHE. DUK had a very rigid view on T2 versus T1 and didn't recognise LADA. Plus too close to bodies in the food industry (same as PHE) plus some others. Sorry folks but changes were needed when I left and I have no idea whether there have been any changes?
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There was a number recently who had seen an ad in Balance Magazine, for a meal replacement product, they assumed by being advertised in the magazine they took as an endorsement. They were not happy when they were informed otherwise, so it is a fine line.
 
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I am a member and have been since my diagnosis.
I kind of agree with the comments about the rubbish that comes with the Balance magazine although I tend to see the advertising as a way for the charity to raise valuable funds.
My main reasons for being a member is to support the research into diabetes and lobbying on behalf of those of us with diabetes. Without them, I have no idea if or when the NHS would offer Libre, I hate to think about the support/discrimination children would get without them and a night time hypo would restrict our driving license.
Thankfully, I have not had to use their advocacy service but it is something else I am more than happy to support.
Thank you Diabetes UK.
 
Lapsed member must get round to renewing membership.

Charity does sterling work raising awareness around diabetes matters, also campaigns for better treatment & tech which grateful for.
 
Yes, I’m a member and have been for years. Well worth the money IMO. 🙂
 
I hadn’t even realised you could be a member... shall go and investigate now!
 
My father bought me life membership when I was diagnosed 53 years ago. Never regretted it though have to admit some of those Balance magazines were a tad boring for a 12 year old.
 
I am also a member and make a donation every month too.

Keep up the good work DUK and thankyou.
 
When I joined the British Diabetic Association it wasn't a magazine, it was a newspaper. Seriously!
 
I remember being quite terrified by some of the contraptions advertised in the back of Balance when I joined the BDA in my early 20s 😳
 
..... just wondering what the hell contraptions these were, to instigate terror????

I had a Palmer injection gun - as the tip of the needle hit me, the whole syringe used to bounce off me and launch itself across my living room without piercing my skin! It was a free sample. I binned it.
 
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trophywench said:
..... just wondering what the hell contraptions these were, to instigate terror????

I had a Palmer injection gun - as the tip of the needle hit me, the whole syringe used to bounce off me and launch itself across my living room without piercing my skin! It was a free sample. I binned it.
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I’m quite curious to know too.
 
trophywench said:
just wondering what the hell contraptions these were, to instigate terror????
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Well suffice to say it was a part of the anatomy that a 21 year old didn’t much want to consider being adversely affected by the incurable condition he had just been diagnosed with. 😱
 
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