I’m fundraising for Breakthrough T1D to defeat T1D!
Our eldest son Roly was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of TWO. T1D affects over 145,000 people in Australia with 8 more diagnosed every day. Over 90% having no family history of the condition. It is a lifelong autoimmune disease that destroys the body’s ability to process sugar by attacking the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, if undiagnosed is fatal. Without insulin, sugar builds up in the blood stream in life threatening amounts. People with T1D cannot produce insulin naturally, they must either take it through multiple daily injections or through a pump. Roly had been injecting himself with insulin until 2022 when we upgraded to an insulin pump – an absolute life changer – the insulin pump is the closest thing to a working pancreas.
It got me to thinking, technology has come so far just in the years we have been living with T1D due to research, how awesome would it be if they could find a cure!!!
In 2022 Roly had been living with Type 1 Diabetes for 10 years so I decided to hold a fundraiser at our little local Maroon School of Arts Hall with funds raised going to JDRF – a organisation dedicated to creating a world without type 1 through fundraising research that focuses on improving lives and curing the condition. The evening was “Cocktails in the Bush” it was a massive success, and we were able to donate $21,500 to JDRF which absolutely exceeded all of my expectations!
It was a very well supported and popular event, so we decided to hold another event in 2023 being the “JDRF Ladies Long Lunch” held again at our little local Maroon School of Arts Hall and once again being a great success raising $35,000 for JDRF.
We are back in 2026 with our “Cocktails in the Country” to once again be held at our little local Maroon School of Arts Hall, it is shaping up to be a fabulous night of fun and fundraising, to help find a cure for those like Roly – living with the everyday burden of T1D - Lets together turn Type One into Type None.
