With Christmas approaching you can support the DSMF when buying cards from https://makingadifference.cards/…/daniel-spargo-mabbs-found… – there is a great selection of printed cards & ecards, including these two new gorgeous designs from one of our very wonderful supporters! Why not download a design to email to your Christmas card list, and make a donation for the amount you’ve saved […]
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We are really happy to welcome Nikki Adamson to join Team Dan as our new administrator. Nikki will be working alongside Amanda, organising our drug education bookings, which just keep on growing – hence needing to grow our team a bit more to keep up!
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Our annual fundraising quiz will be on Saturday 27th November at 7pm in the Emmanuel Centre, South Croydon, and we’d love you to come if you’re local! You can either sign up as a pre-organised team of up to 8 people, or as an individual (and we’ll join you up with some other team members).
For the second time in its still short life, the powerful play we commissioned Mark Wheeller to write, ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’, is on at the Edinburgh Fringe. Back in 2018 the talented young cast of Lloyd Theatre Arts, a Yorkshire-based youth theatre company, gained five star reviews for
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On Monday 28th June we were delighted to be able to welcome delegates from across the UK – in person! – to the third National Drug and Alcohol Education Conference, held at the beautiful Guildhall in the City of London, co-organised by the DSM Foundation and the Alcohol Education Trust, and hosted by the London
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Yesterday was a special day for Dan’s Foundation, his mum and our founder Fiona, and the book she wrote for parents, ‘I Wish I’d Known’. In the morning she was interviewed by presenter Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4s Woman’s Hour, and in the evening on Channel 5 News, talking about Dan, all she wishes
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Today is Dan’s 24th birthday, and today the book his mum Fiona wrote for parents was published. ‘I Wish I’d Known’ interweaves the story of one family’s terrible loss with calm, measured and practical advice for parents and carers about young people, drugs and decisions. The official launch event took place last night, with a
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Peer pressure gets a bad press when it comes to young people, and not without good cause. Research has demonstrated, and on many occasions, that the most careful and cautious, safe and sensible teenager will take more risks when their friends are around than they will left to their own devices. All sorts of neurological
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