Author name: Caz Heath

We’re delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded funding by the National Lottery Community Fund to provide drug awareness workshops to parents and carers.      These workshops can be delivered in person or live-streamed via webinar, with priority given to schools and colleges in England or Wales that are state-maintained. The funding covers

Evidence-based best practice in alcohol and drugs education: empowering young people to make healthy choices in the classroom and beyond. A day for professionals to hear from leading experts on the latest research on alcohol and drugs prevention, attend a choice of workshops on evidence-based programmes and receive planning and evaluation advice for effective PSHE.

It is with great pride that we can announce that the incredible Fiona Spargo-Mabbs has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List for her work with young people. It is wonderful recognition of the huge amount of work that Fiona – alongside Tim and Jacob – put into setting up the Foundation

We’re delighted that we’ve already reached our official Big Give target and have used all our match-funding pot. The donations we’ve received this week have been matched to become over £3,600. What great news!   To see if we can extend the target even higher, a generous supporter has offered an additional £1,000 as match-funding

These are Dan’s trainers. Fiona sometimes takes them into schools to show young people how precious they are to their families and friends.   In 2020, 38 15-19 year-olds died from drug-related causes. Dan’s old trainers illustrate the enormity of Dan’s family’s loss – and of the 38 families’ losses. It is avoidable.  The Foundation does

A very generous-hearted person nominated Fiona for an award and she’s been shortlisted, which is exciting. The award ‘celebrates an individual that approaches everything they do with kindness and compassion’, so it’s a lovely award to be put forward for. And most importantly it could bring £5,000 to the DSM Foundation. It’s all down to

In September we headed to Edinburgh to hold a drug education showcase event at Trinity Academy, funded by Police Scotland. Ever since two Police Scotland officers saw TiE It Up Theatre perform Mark Wheeller’s play about Dan at a school in Edinburgh when we were touring it up there in Spring, they’ve been working really

We’re really excited that from this September Mark Wheeller’s play that tells Dan’s story will start to be taught as one of seven set texts on the Eduqas GCSE drama syllabus, alongside Shakespeare, J.B. Priestly, Malorie Blackman and Benjamin Zephaniah. We really hope this will bring the play to many more drama studios and classrooms