Diabetes NZ Auckland Youth: Whānau Fun Day!

Diabetes NZ Auckland Youth are excited to invite you to a fun afternoon with your family! This event was a great success last year, so we're bringing it back with a few similar activities such as the egg and spoon race, and three-legged race, plus a few new activities and games! This event is open to all tamariki/children and rangatahi/youth of all ages, living with diabetes (T1 & T2), along with siblings, parents/carers and grandparents. It's a great chance to meet new people in the diabetes community, to catch up from previous events, and for youth and children to meet new friends and see others living with diabetes like themselves. For parents and whānau this is a chance to make connections and gain support no matter where you are at in the diabetes journey. We would love to have you along and support each other (adults have a great time participating in the activities too!) Bring a lunch so we can have a picnic together (children with diabetes can see others also have sugars checked, and insulin like them). Bring a picnic blanket, water bottle and diabetes gear including hypo treatments (please note, nothing can be stuck into the ground, so no large sun umbrellas or shelters). Wear blue (if you have any) to symbolise diabetes or previous camp t-shirts if children have them. Plus, a sunhat, jumper/light rain jacket and running/active shoes. Arrive at 12noon Saturday 28th November. Parking is in the surrounding streets of Ōrākei Domain and Tamaki Drive. Games and activities will start soon after. Wet weather back up date is the following Saturday 5th December. It will NOT be postponed for showers. If strong continuous rain is forecast, or heavy rain the day prior making grounds saturated, a decision will be made on the Friday, and an email will be sent out (last year we went ahead even with some rain, and it cleared up to be a nice afternoon). Cost is a koha/donation of 'pay what you can' rather than a set ticket cost for this event. As with all our other events, we do not want financial barriers to prevent attendance. Donations will directly fund this event, and any surplus, will go towards another of our local events or camps. We appreciate your support. Click on 'Whānau Ticket', choose your koha amount, click '+' to show 1, then click 'Add to order'. This single ticket will ask for specific numbers of attendees. Queries contact Shantelle - Youth and Type 1 Coordinator, Diabetes NZ Auckland Youth [email protected] / 027 2256569 November is Diabetes Action Month: The One Million Minutes campaign is about creating diabetes awareness, getting active and raising funds for services and events offered by Diabetes New Zealand and in local communities. Consider joining team 'Diabetes NZ Auckland Youth' and let's reach these goals together. If you prefer not to have your own page, add your active minutes and/or donation to another team participant or share their page. It all counts. Donations towards our team help support events for young people living with diabetes in Auckland. As The Whānau Fun Day is during Diabetes Action Month, we can use our group active minutes to contribute towards our team's collective goal! Diabetes NZ Auckland Youth • ONE MILLION MINUTES 2026