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We are delighted that support material to Fiona’s book is now available to download from the John Murray Press website.  These materials are designed to accompany I Wish I’d Known, and provide additional information, insights and advice specific, both for parents and professionals. There are three supplementary books: Faith, drugs and decisions – for Christian […]

We’re really excited to announce that Fiona’s book for parents, ‘I Wish I’d Known: Young People, Drugs and Decisions’ has received a Gold Medal in the Nautilus Book Awards 2022, in the category Parenting and Family.   The Nautilus Awards’ tagline is ‘Better Books for a Better World’ and over the past 21 years, this

Dan’s story is at the heart of all we do and each year on his birthday we like to celebrate by holding an annual Odd Socks Day!  Why Odd Socks?  Well, he frequently wore odd socks ‘just because’ so it seems appropriate!   This year’s Odd Socks Day is on Friday 27th May – we’d love your school or workplace to join us.  It’s

We are very grateful to our corporate partners for supporting our work in different ways. We’re delighted that Talbot Underwriters have generously match funded the amount raised at our recent quiz night AND made a Christmas donation of £3k. And a big ongoing thank you to the Big Yellow for continuing to provide free-of-charge storage

Throughout December we will be sharing information, on our website and our Facebook page, about the 2022 Theatre in Education tours we are planning of the play.  We’ll share a couple of posts each week giving different perspectives of the play, with quotes, statistics and news – and invite you and others to donate specifically

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

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!

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