In April, my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. He is doing so well but there is a lot to deal with every day. He has to continually monitor his blood glucose levels and inject insulin 4 times a day. While he is carrying on with all of his day to day activities (and we are so proud of him), diabetes is always there and has to be factored in to everything he does.

400,000 people are currently living with type 1 diabetes in the UK, I want to change that.

I’m taking part in JDRF's 400,000 Step Challenge to help raise money to fund life-changing research and make a difference to the lives of people affected by type 1! That’s 10,000 steps a day every day for 40 days to represent the 400,000 people currently living with type 1 diabetes.

With your support and your generous donations, we can fund JDRF UK’s important work. Here are just a few examples of what your money can do...

£20 could enable 20 parents to return to work, safe in the knowledge that their child's type 1 diabetes will be carefully managed at school, thanks to JDRF's e-learning modules.

£65 could help a vital research project progress by paying for one hour of research time.

£115 could pay for one person to be screened for type 1 diabetes. Sadly people in the UK still die from un-diagnosed type 1 diabetes complications - this screening could stop this.

Thank you for your support, whatever you donate is really appreciated. Together, we can help JDRF to eradicate type 1 diabetes!