Louise up early on Sunday morning.

#ShineALightOnCoeliac

This week is the Coeliac UK #ShineALightOnCoeliac challenge, to raise awareness of the difficulties children and young people face when managing their coeliac disease.

At Delicious By Design, we’ve set up a team to tackle the challenge, and raise funds for Coeliac UK and the excellent work that the organisation does. As a team, we’re running and walking hundreds of kilometres to raise money this week. If you like to support us, you can do so here.

We’ll be updating our social media channels as we go, so please look out for us, and if you see us out in our orange Coeliac UK T-shirts, give us a wave!

I want to thank everybody who has been involved in supporting this challenge so far, from my wonderful team of lovely ladies and a few good men, to everyone who has given so generously of their time, effort, and money to help us succeed.

Finally, events like this don’t happen without a fabulous organising team, and great sponsorship, so thank you also to Coeliac UK and Warburtons.

~ Louise

About The Challenge

For many, sunnier days and the chance to see family and friends again makes summer 2021 look brighter. But for children and young people with coeliac disease, it isn?t that simple. Trusting other people to provide gluten free food can cause feelings of worry and exclusion. And the last thing any young person needs now is more isolation.

£30 can give 10 children or young adults access to empowering resources to give them confidence when managing their coeliac disease

£50 covers the cost of our expert Food Policy team for an hour, allowing them to provide guidance to parents, schools, hospitals and more, about how to prepare and provide safe gluten free food

£100 could allow a school access to our gluten free catering training

£150 contributes to the development of new support resources for children and young people so they can feel safer outside the home and more confident managing their coeliac disease

For 50 years Coeliac UK has been helping people with coeliac disease and other gluten related conditions live happier, healthier lives. Coeliac UK does this by striving for better gluten free food in more places, providing independent, trustworthy advice and support and funding crucial research to manage the impacts of gluten and find answers to coeliac disease. And everybody does it all so that one day, no one’s life will be limited by gluten.