Raising Awareness

Rachael actively raises awareness of IBD and stomas. In this month’s blog she tells us how a trip to Wales just before her stoma surgery, resulted in her applying for a beauty pageant and ultimately winning the regional title of Miss Divine Buckinghamshire 2018.

Shane Green is the founder of Stoma Heroes – a support group for ostomates. Learn how his stoma surgery and recovery period in hospital led to the formation of Stoma Heroes

Billie has been reflecting on the things that matter most in her life and where she’d like 2019 to take her. Read on to discover how her mindset changed after stoma surgery.

2019 sees the release of the highly anticipated ostomate documentary, My Bag and I. It’s gained a lot of interest on social media recently, so we invited James Rush, the film’s producer, to tell us a bit more about it

World Ostomy Day took place on Saturday 6 October 2018. In a bid to help raise awareness and to better understand the effect our products have, we decided to wear stoma pouches for the day – read on to see how it went!

The urostomy is often referred to as the ‘forgotten stoma’. Here Lynne tells us how she’s been affected by the lack of awareness and what she does to bring about change.