We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025, which is a seven-day online match funded campaign, meaning one donation, twice the impact. We have £12,500 of matched funding available thanks to generous pledges and champion funding from Reed Educational Trust Limited, and money raised through this campaign will enable us to fund […]
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Drug education charity the DSM Foundation has refined its social media presence following a decision to step away from the platforms X and Bluesky. Founder and director Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE stated: “Our concerns about retaining a presence on X have been ever growing, alongside our ever deepening unease at changes progressively made since it
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The online event, which took place on Tuesday October 15th 2025, saw the release of the charity’s Year In The Life booklet, which describes the reach and impact of its wide range of drug education activities. There were also several speakers who described how they came across the DSM Foundation, worked with the charity in
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The DSM Foundation, a charity dedicated to drug education, has welcomed new data released by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) showing stability in vaping rates among young people aged 11–17 in Great Britain. However, the charity echoes ASH’s concern over a significant increase in those identifying as “ever smokers,” rising from 14% in 2023
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The DSM Foundation is delighted to be working with Moray Council/the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund to deliver our evidence-based, multi-component drug education programme in all eight of the local authority’s secondary schools and its service for students with special educational and behavioural needs. The report for the 2024-25 academic year can be found at Moray
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We are taking part in Big Give Small Charity Week 2025, which is a seven-day online match funded campaign, championing small charities with big impact (like us!). We have £10,000 of matched funding available thanks to Global’s Make Some Noise, and money raised through this campaign will enable us to fund life-saving drug education workshops
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Ten days on from the UK-wide ban on disposable vapes that was introduced on June 1, drug education charity the DSM Foundation is commenting on how they see this impacting young people in particular – who have, in the past, been cited as the biggest users of single use vapes. Although it is likely to
What needs to be done to prevent harm from drugs? A Whole-System Response to Drug Prevention in the UK (ACMD, 2025) When it comes to addressing drug-related harms, and reducing the risks from drugs to young people, prevention has long been overshadowed by the urgency of rising numbers of drug-related deaths, and the damage to society
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As a charity founded in response to the loss of a young life to drugs, the work of the DSM Foundation has always been driven by a strong sense of values – a belief that harm to young people can and must be prevented, and that our work can and must do that, and do
In response to findings that one in six confiscated vapes from UK schools contained the illegal and dangerous drug Spice, drugs education charity the DSM Foundation has collaborated with the University of Bath which undertook the original research to produce an innovative training resource aimed at helping school and college staff identify and address the
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