💙 🙏 Could you spare some time to help others? We’re looking for adult IA members who are 18-months post-surgery to register their interest for training with IA’s visiting service. 👉 Email [email protected] with your contact details and we’ll be in touch!

Are you between the age of 18-24 yrs?🌟We need your help🌟 We are here for all ages and #youngIA is a vital area of our community. Please share your #stomastories with us as a video or if you prefer, send as an email or DM. 🙏Thank you, your #stomastories make a difference.

Our documentary on the social issues facing #ostomates today is now live! It tackles issues such as dating, sex, mental wellbeing & day to day life. Filmed by #MyBagandI2019 in conjunction with IA, director @mikey_pne. View the whole documentary below 👇 iasupport.org/mybagandi

#Throwback from #WorldOstomyDay 2018... a very wet but fun day raising awareness last year. This year IA has released a documentary with @mikey_pne tackling social issues living with a stoma. #ibd #stoma #ibdawareness #ileostomy View>> iasupport.org/mybagandi

In conjunction with @mikey_pne, this documentary tackles some of the social issues facing #ostomates today. Ileostomate Chris shares his view on life with a stoma & what he thought of #MyStomaAndI2019 below. Watch the full documentary at iasupport.org/mybagandi

💬 IA's Pouch Information Day is coming September 28th! A full day of spreading information and awareness about internal pouches with separate sessions for Kock pouches & Ileoanal pouches. If you’d like to come along, bookings are now being taken: pouch.iasupport.org/informat…

💬 IA's Pouch Information Day is coming this September! A full day of spreading information and awareness about internal pouches including specific sessions for Kock pouches. If you’d like to come along, bookings are now being taken: pouch.iasupport.org/informat…

Supporting our young members...💛 Young IA aims to support our members aged under 40, and other young people, either pre-surgery or post -surgery, who undergo either an ileostomy or an internal pouch operations. Find out how you can get involved: [email protected]

We're delighted to be one of the partnership organisations working on the IBD standards helping to shape the standard of care for #Crohns & #Colitis. IBD UK are comparing patient experience to the standards. Share your voice & take part in the survey here: bit.ly/2XOTFy7

Living with a #stoma? Pick up a copy of the @Guardian today for supplement on #bladderandbowel and see the article by @iasupport #BeSelfieConfident

You cannot predict the future but you could help change one. Through your kindness a legacy or donation enables us to continue supporting others.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says 'I survived". Thanks so much for your #GladragsAndOstomyBags photos Annie-May 💜

#StomaWhatStoma! Thank you for taking part in our campaign to #BeSelfieConfident Pamela. 💪🏼 If you'd like to get involved please private message us your #GladragsAndOstomyBags photos along with your consent for us to share them 😄

Delighted to partially fund research undertaken by University of Highlands & Islands (primary funding by Bowel and Cancer Research). To highlight the importance of exercise and to show how it can be done safely, the research team produced a video: iasupport.org/about/research…

IA and @ColostomyUK are offering a joint bursary to a #stoma care nurse to fund attendance to @ASCNUK 2019 to present their abstract. IA was involved in the formation of this specialist role in the 70s and they play such an important role today. Apply >> ascnukconference.com/bursary