The Charity - JDRF

About 350,000 people in the UK alone are affected by type 1 diabetes and 20,000 of them are children. It is a leading cause of kidney failure, adult blindness, stroke, heart attacks and nerve damage leading to amputation.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation exists to find the cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications, and is the world's largest charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research.  It was founded by a small group of parents of children with type 1 diabetes who recognised that insulin injections are not the cure for this life threatening and lifelong condition.

Last year JDRF funded around 700 research projects globally as part of its ultimate goal to find the cure for type 1 diabetes.

JDRF raises money to drive world-class research, no matter where it is taking place across the globe. Over the last 30 years we have funded more than £600 million of research and have been fundamentally involved in the delivery of advances in this field. We seek out, assess and monitor the best science to drive the breakthroughs that improve management of type 1 diabetes and will ultimately cure the condition.