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Trust Gains Award From Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust

Wolves Community Trust has been honoured for their outstanding partnership work at the Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust Annual Celebration event.

Nordic Walking

Tackle Diabetes have joined forces with Beacon Outdoor Fitness to offer people with diabetes the opportunity to try Nordic Walking for free

Steven's story

Diabetes has run in my family but I didn’t expect or think about getting it myself. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in November 2011 and initiallyI found this quite difficult to deal with. However, once I got over the initial shock, I thought ‘ok so I’ve got diabetes, get on with it and do something about it’.

Christine and Tony's story

We found out about the Tackle Diabetes and the X-PERT programme at the Action 4 Diabetes support group we attend each month and decided this was something we definitely wanted to attend.

Brian's Story

I was extremely worried when I was diagnosed with diabetes sixteen months ago, at that point I didn’t know what to do or what was going to happen.

World Diabetes Day

This years World Diabetes Day is on the 14th November. World Diabetes Day aims to promote global awareness of diabetes, and was set up by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to combat the global rise of the condition.

Healthy Lifestyle Drop In

Do you want some advice on how to loose weight?

Would you like to be more active but don’t know where to start?

Would you like to stop smoking but don’t know where to turn for help?

If your answer is yes to any of the above or if you have any other issues regarding healthy eating and physical activity why not pop along to our new drop in service.

Newsletter July 2011

The newsletter will provide readers with an update on what has been happening within the Tackle Diabetes project over the last few months as well as providing an insight on what to expect over the coming months. For more information or to reserve a place on any of the upcoming activities please contact 01902 687039

Tackle Diabetes features on Match of the Day

Tuesday the 12th April, 2011 saw the first annual celebration of Wolves Community Trust’s Tackle Diabetes project.

Filmed by BBC’s Match of the Day, the event was held at Molineux and welcomed sixty people interested in finding out more about diabetes itself, the Tackle Diabetes project as well as the support available in Wolverhampton.

Jean's story

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in July 2010. After the initial shock and confusion I accepted I had the condition and set about trying to find out what information and support was available to me - my GP and nurse were really helpful but I felt I needed more.

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