Thank you!

Dan, Joe and Michelle all ran the Royal Parks Half in 2024 – for each of them it was their first ever half marathon, and they did so well!! Collectively, they raised £2,633 and these funds will be put towards the London tour of I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die. Thank you all so much for choosing to run for the DSM Foundation. (October 2024)

What a night! Thanks to everyone who came to our quiz night, and particularly to Phil the Quiz who did a sterling job as quizmaster, including a special “ten” round to commemorate our 10th anniversary. We raised £1,067 in total – thanks so much to everyone who came and to Team Dan for coordinating it all. (June 2024)

Huge congratulations to Gavin Mann for running the 2024 TCS London Marathon for the DSM Foundation! He raised £922, with all funds going towards our drug education programme – thank you Gavin.  (April 2024)

A massive THANK YOU to the family and friends of Jack Crossley, and Sutton United Football Club, and everyone who took any part in his memorial football match this year and raised an incredible £2,166 for our work with young people! (April 2023)

Thanks to pupils at John Fisher Catholic School (Purley) who raised £159 through an information stand as part of their First Give Scheme.

Thank you so much to Cliff Hughes for exceeding his fundraising target, raising £615 for us! Cliff set out to walk the West Highlands Way in memory of his friend Andrew. His plans were cut short, but we’re incredibly grateful to Cliff for his stellar effort. (August 2023)

Thank you so much to the 8th Bramshill Scouts for their generous donation of £192.85 to the DSMF. In January 2024, we delivered a talk to the scouts and their parents about drug education.

Year 9 pupils at Archbishop Temple Church of England High School raised a fantastic £380.34 during Lent 2023 – thank you so much!

Thank you so much to the Badminton Club at South Croydon Sports Club for carrying out different fundraising events for us, including a music quiz and a clothing and cupcake sale.

A big thank you to Sutton Valence School for raising £257.62 for us! They held a collection at their Christmas carol concert and donated all the proceeds to DSM. (December 2023)

Thank you so much to pupils at Oxted School for holding a Christmas Jumper Day, raising a total of £367.59! (December 2022)

The High School of Dundee hosted a ‘We Will Rock You Musical’ family festival, raising funds for the DSMF. Thank you to everyone involved!

Thank you so much to the fabulous folk of Goldington Academy who raised £200 for the DSM Foundation through their ‘Goldington’s Got Talent’ event!  (May 2023)

A big Team Dan THANK YOU to everybody who donated as part of our Big Give Christmas Challenge this year – the campaign was a huge success. We exceeded our target of £8,800 thanks to individual donations, pledge funding and Champion funding. (December 2023)

We want to say a big thank you to Darrell Jones from Drugs Expert Witness for making an incredibly generous donation of £1,500 to DSMF – he is a real advocate of the work we do, thank you Darrell. (January 2023)

Our Amy made the difficult decision a while back to wrap up Our Amy Foundation as a registered charity. They entrusted their remaining funds to us, to continue the good work they started as part of the work we do – these funds will be used for something special.

Well done quizzers! 93 wonderful people joined us for our annual fundraising quiz, hosted by the fabulous Phil Sanders. We raised almost £1,500 which, thanks to match funding from Phil’s employer Talbot Underwriting, was doubled to approx £3,000. What an amazing total from a very fun evening. (March 2023)

Huge thanks to Purley BID (our office neighbours!) for letting us run the bouncy castle at Purley Community Festival in September. We made over £200, while making lots of children (and parents and caregivers) very happy… (September 2023)

Huge congratulations to Hannah King for completing her first half marathon at The Royal Parks Half – she also succeeded in raising over £500 for the DSMF – well done Hannah! (Ocotber 2023)

We are incredibly grateful to all of the hardworking people at Billy and Beyond who tirelessly fundraise for us, allowing us to deliver vital drug education in the Worthing area – thank you so much.

Emma set herself the ambitious goal of running the equivalent length of the UK during the year 2023, from Land’s End to John O’Groats, a total of 1744.20km and… she did it! Massive congratulations to Emma – what a hero, and all the raise funds for the DSM Foundation – thank you Emma.