Sharing the Test Strips Petition

The Diabetes Community has launched a UK wide petition to campaign for all people with type 2 diabetes to have free access to test their blood sugar levels.

We’re aiming to together achieve a very challenging target of 100,000 signatures.

To help achieve the target, we need your help to get the message out to as many people as possible.

Please see below for the many ways in which you can make a big difference.

In what you do - be bold - you’re helping to support an issue that affects a huge number of people in the UK!

• The link for the petition is: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20537
• Alternatively, you can use this shortened version: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/petition

World Diabetes Day

The theme of World Diabetes Day is diabetes education and prevention.

Use World Diabetes Day as another reason to get the message out and share the petition with your friends, family, colleagues and anyone else!

Signature

Use the following text as an email or forum signature:

1 in 12 people have diabetes - Save the future health of the UK
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/petition

Petition appeal notice

Download and print the petition appeal letter and display the petition appeal letter in key places. See below for a wide variety of ideas.

Email

• Add the link as a signature in your email
• Send an email to your all your contacts asking them to sign and pass the message on
• Share this link to encourage your contacts to do likewise

Social Media

Share the petition on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

• Send a Facebook message to all your friends telling them about the petition:
  http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20537
• Ask for permission to post the petition link on the wall of popular Facebook pages

Forum users

• Add the petition link in your forum signature
• Ask the forum moderator/administrator if a thread can go up to promote the petition

Employers

Persuade employers to be active. Companies have the potential to reach many people through their employees and employees’ friends and families.

• Company intranets
• Notice boards
• Internal newsletters

Community centres, clubs and Places of Worship

• Print off the appeal letter and give it out at meetings/services
• Ask for the petition to be included in a newsletter
• Ask for an announcement to be made to support the petition