Stepping Out For IDDT Appeal

Over the past two years we have had a dedicated team of runners and supporters who have been working hard to raise awareness of IDDT. This has helped thousands of people receive the support and information they need to make living with diabetes a little easier.

This year we are stepping up our appeal. We are asking everyone to take a step to help someone with diabetes.

The information IDDT provides has been described as ‘invaluable, easy to understand and life saving. We want as many people as possible to receive this information.

Every Step You Take
Everyone can do their bit to help and at the same time, take some exercise!. With our free T-shirt every step you take could help someone with diabetes. If you are going for a run or simply walking to the shops or to school you can wear our T-shirts or an IDDT sticker to show people how to get in touch with IDDT.

To help you on your way we will also give you a free IDDT Pedometer which will show exactly how many steps you have taken. Each month you can e-mail IDDT at martin@iddtinternational.org and let us know how many steps you have taken to help people with diabetes. Each month the steps will be added to and posted on IDDT’s Home Page so we can all see how well we are doing.

Step Meter
This will display the total steps taken For IDDT, so remember to e-mail us your personal monthly totals!

Send your e-mail to:
martin@iddtinternational.org

We have had a fantastic response to the first month of our Stepping Out For IDDT Appeal. Collectively we have all done 102,000 steps to help raise awareness for people with diabetes. This month’s winning steppers are the Ross family who have taken 62,000 steps on the way to school and managed to raise £100 in the process. A huge thanks to the Ross family and your Stress Pigs are on their way to you.

Bill and Stella Sass and Wilbert have returned from their holiday in Crete and they managed to clock up 369,136 steps – 87.20 miles! Well done and a huge thank you for helping to raise awareness of diabetes and the adults and children with it.

Do you know what the guidelines say for how many steps per day you should take? Well, here they are:

[According to the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, January 2008]

For Your Free Wilbert T. Shirt and pedometer please contact Bev on bev@iddtinternational.org or call her on 01604 622 837