Falkirk Football Club is delighted to welcome Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF, as our Charity Partner of the Match for this weekend’s fixture against Airdrieonians.
The charity will be based in and around the stadium carrying out a bucket collection for donations.
Breakthrough T1D is the type 1 diabetes charity, improving lives until we find the cure.
They fund research to cure, treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes. They provide information for children, adults, and parents living with the condition, at all stages from diagnosis and beyond. Breakthrough T1D is a global organisation working towards the cure. Internationally, they are one of the world’s leading charitable funders of type 1 diabetes research. They work with academia, industry, and governments to make sure that the research they fund has the greatest possible impact on the lives of people with type 1 now and in the future.
What is type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes affects 400,000 in the UK, and more than 29,000 of them are children. Type 1 affects 33,000 people across Scotland, including 3,800 under the age of 20. It is a life-threatening and lifelong autoimmune condition. It is caused by a problem with the immune system. It is not caused by lifestyle and cannot currently be prevented. In people with type 1 diabetes, the body mistakenly attacks the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, meaning that little or no insulin is produced.
As a result, the body cannot convert glucose from food into the energy the body needs to survive. Just to stay alive, people with type 1 diabetes rely on multiple daily insulin injections (or pump infusions) and finger prick blood tests. But insulin is not the cure and does not prevent the devastating impact of the condition on children, adults, and families living with it.
Visit www.breakthroughT1D.org.uk for more information.
