What does your child want from Thriveabetes?

At last years Thriveabetes, it was mentioned on more than one occasion that we should explore providing activities for children and we have made that our highest priority for Thriveabetes 2016. However, we are only accepting Children from the age of 5 years upwards and our 16+ year olds will have the option to attend the adult sessions.

This begs several questions that would help us develop a programme for them.

• What does your child with type 1 diabetes want out of Thriveabetes?
• What do you want for your child with type 1 diabetes?
• What age is your child with type 1 diabetes?

We are very interested to hear your thoughts and your child's thoughts on these questions.

Rebecca Flanagan is heading up a team of SuperMums to develop a programme for three different age groups and this would be fantastic information for them to have. Remember we are all volunteers and professional amateurs ;-)

You can email them to me at Grainne@thriveabetes.ie, or you can post them in the comments section below.

Sugar Surfing Winners!

Last week we announced that we had 4 copies of the book "Sugar Surfing - How to manage Type 1 Diabetes in a Modern World" to giveaway. Kevin McMahon, co-author of “Sugar Surfing” very kindly donated the 4 copies of the book to us. Kevin was one of our speakers at Thriveabetes 2015 in Maynooth. He is a diabetes dad, his daughter, Darby, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2001. The Thriveabetes team would like to extend their thanks to Kevin for this generous gift.

I would like to thank everyone who completed the survey to enter. The results were very interesting and we will publish them in the coming weeks. 

And the winners are:

• Teri Byrne
• Ramona Lasch
• Evelyn O'Leary
• Cliodhna Hyland

Congratulations to all 4 and I will be in touch in the next couple of days to get your mailing addresses and get your copies of Sugar Surfing out to you.

I would also like to mention that in the coming weeks we will be running a Thriveabetes Fundraiser Raffle with free Thriveabetes Tickets on offer to volunteer ticket sellers. If you are interested in this opportunity please email me at Grainne@thriveabetes.ie

Or if you would like to donate a prize to add to the two fab prizes we already have?

Strength in Numbers @ NUIG

Do you have Type 1 Diabetes? Are you aged between 18 and 25 years?

The National University Hospital in Galway are organising a conference for you, called Strength in Numbers on the 23^rd of June 2016.

This conference aims to bring together service providers, policy makers, researchers and young adults with type 1 diabetes to share and develop new approaches to diabetes management.

Registration will open in March 2016”.

I don't have any more details for you at this time but in the meantime you can join the conversation on twitter using #T1DSINs2016.