Purley-headquartered charity, the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation (DSMF) will be featured on the BBC Radio 4 Appeal from Sunday 3rd November until Saturday 9th November.
The broadcast sees charity founder, Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE describe how her 16 year-old son Dan died in 2014 after taking an accidental overdose of ecstasy and how her response was to set up a drug education charity to try and prevent the same thing happening to other young people.
The charity takes an evidence-based and non-judgemental approach in providing workshops, resources and information to young people (and their adults in their lives) to enable and empower them to make decisions when in situations involving alcohol and/or drugs. The aim is simple: so they and their friends all get home safely.
Dan lived and went to school in Croydon. The DSMF has gone national and last year, it directly reached around 70,000 young people, but remains embedded in the Purley, and wider Croydon community. We're proud to have them based locally and doing such great work in local schools.
Kenley ward councillors, Gayle Gander and Ola Kolade (also Cabinet Member for Community Safety) and Purley and Woodcote councillor, Samir Dwesar have met with the charity and have previously blogged about them.
The BBC Radio 4 Appeal is an excellent opportunity for the DSMF to rise awareness both of its life-saving work and funds to support it.
We’d encourage local residents to listen to the broadcasts that will take place during the week, donate if they are able to and share information with others. and we'd encourage local residents to listen to the broadcasts that will take place during the week commencing November 3, donate if they are able to do so, and share the information with others.
Information can be found on the Radio 4 website at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024ll6 and on the charity's website at www.dsmfoundation.org.uk.
