TYPE1UNCUT – VIDEOS FOR AND BY
YOUNG ADULTS WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES
How did the #Type1uncut project come about?
Diabetes UK was funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation to provide a series of online resources to help young adults aged 16-30 with Type 1 diabetes to manage their condition. (Although that’s not to say that some of the resources won’t be just as relevant for anyone older or younger!)
Free factsheets
The first phase funded the creation of a series of factsheets for young people to give to others to let them know about Type 1 diabetes (available to download for free on this page).
#Type1uncut
For the second phase of the project Diabetes UK has worked with 26 young adults with Type 1 diabetes, from all four nations of the UK, to co-create a YouTube channel of videos about subjects that matter to them.
The group have worked with Diabetes UK both face to face and through social media to help bring #Type1uncut to life. We also plan to hold regular Google+ Hangouts with a wider audience, using some of the videos as starting points for discussion.
We hope that people will find the content useful, and share it on social media using the hashtag #type1uncut – and that more young people with Type 1 diabetes will be keen to create videos for the channel.
#Type1uncut YouTube channel
We launched #Type1uncut with the first seven videos during Diabetes Week, 8-14 June 2014, with more new videos over the following months.
The group has grown and over the summer we've been working on our next films - watch out for videos about hypos during Hypo Awareness Week, 29 September 2014 to 5 October 2014, followed by subjects including sport, sex and research later in the year.
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