February 20th, 2024, saw a very special occasion for the DSM Foundation: an event marking the charity’s 10 year anniversary. Held at Dan’s secondary school, Archbishop Tenison’s C of E High School in Croydon, the event brought together individuals who have been with the organisation since its inception in 2014, through to those who […]
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The DSM Foundation is often approached for comment on news stories, but also for interview requests with Fiona. So when an opportunity presented itself for Fiona to tell her and Dan’s story to Chat, she agreed as long as she could include some advice for parents and caregivers on how to approach conversations about drugs
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Launching today (February 20th, 2024) is the Drug Education Forum (DEF), bringing together drug education providers, educators and practitioners from across the UK to uphold evidence-based standards, share best practice and provide a voice for the sector. A vital aspect of this is ensuring that all young people to have access to high quality, evidence-based
As part of our 10th anniversary year, we are launching £10 for our 10th Year. As a small but ever-growing charity, regular donations help us to make concrete plans and commitments, with confidence that these will be funded, and this planned growth is crucial to enabling us to meet the demands for us to reach
Donate now to be an ILYM Theatre Angel! We’re really excited about the London schools tour of I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die taking place between February-March 2024: for the 64 performances which are already booked, bringing Dan’s story with its important messages and the post-performance workshop to over 15,000
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We are delighted to have been awarded a large three-year grant from John Lyon’s Charity which will fund delivery of drug education workshops, play performances and teacher training in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, City of London & Westminster. This offers a brilliant opportunity for
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Parties and gatherings were named as the most common place for 15-18 year olds to obtain drugs by over three quarters of more than 2,100 young people surveyed. The data, collected by drugs education charity the DSM Foundation, highlights the risks there can be to young people from a lack of understanding that drug transactions
In 2020, concerned that there didn’t appear to be much data on young people’s exposure to drugs through social media, the DSM Foundation ran a survey on this very subject. Nearly 1,000 responses later, the scale of the issue started to emerge: over 20 per cent of respondents said they’d seen illegal drugs (including prescription
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DSM Foundation founder and director Fiona Spargo-Mabbs featured on BBC Radio London’s breakfast show on November 20, 2023, kicking off a week’s focus on the borough of Croydon. Listen here to the interview,
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We’re delighted to have got through the first application stage for Phase Two of the government’s NIHR Innovation Fund, to continue working with Middlesex University to evaluate our drug education programme in schools across England. As part of this application process we’ve been reviewing Phase One, and wanted to share some of the valuable
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