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Dan’s story, retold in Mark Wheeller’s moving verbatim play ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’, has taken to the road again this term in the talented hands of StopWatch Theatre Company. Over 14,000 young people have experienced this powerful production this term. Performances were followed by interactive workshops to pick up […]

It’s been vital to us from the start that all we do is as effective as it possibly can be. As well as internal evaluations with feedback from students, teachers and parents, we’ve been working with the University of Middlesex Drug and Alcohol Research Centre on an initial assessment of our parents’ workshops, Theatre in

The story of Dan has been at the heart of all we’ve done from the very earliest days, told almost everywhere by his mum Fiona. It resonates so powerfully with audiences of all ages and gives a relevance and context to all the information, advice and guidance we provide through our drug education programme.  There’s

25 August 2018 “I genuinely thought I was watching Daniel’s friends and family tell this emotive and important story themselves. Take your children. Take your parents. And take care of yourselves.” Edinburgh49 5* review This August, the talented young people and team of Yorkshire-based youth theatre company Lloyd Theatre Arts took a production of Mark

11 August 2018 Many readers will be aware of the work of non-profit organisation The Loop, who have been offering their drug testing and counselling service at a small but growing number of music festivals since summer 2016. This August our founder Fiona was invited to join them at Bestival. It was a great opportunity

29 May 2018 Our founder, director and Dan’s mum Fiona was invited to speak on ITV’s This Morning  on 29 May, in response to the terrible news of the loss of two more young lives to ecstasy at Mutiny Festival in Portsmouth that weekend. Georgia Jones, 18, and Tommy Cowan, a young dad of just

6 May 2018 StopWatch Theatre Company’s second professional tour of Mark Wheeller’s play about Dan, I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die, reaches its end as schools close for Easter, and for a second year it has had a huge impact on its audiences right across the length and breadth of London.

19 December 2017 The long-awaited charity album, ‘We All Stand Together’ by Choirs With Purpose, is finally on the shelves of HMV and Asda as well as available online to order or download. And it could still be Christmas no.1 with your help! Choirs With Purpose is a great big group of around 1,400 singers

On Thursday 15 September Fiona delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street, along with two other bereaved mums, Lorin LaFave and Sacha Langton-Gilks. The letter asked Theresa May to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) a statutory part of every school curriculum. Sacha is the lead champion for the Brain Tumour Charity’s Head

13 September 2016 The play we commissioned Mark Wheeller to write about Dan, I Love you Mum, I Promise I Won’t Die, is now available to pre-order on Amazon, with Bloomsbury’s striking book cover design on display. Due to be released on 6 April 2017!