Funding

The Alcohol Education Trust is a charity which depends on grants and donations in order to keep its alcohol education programmes free for the schools, pupils referral units and special schools, youth clubs and parenting groups across the UK that we support each year. Please do consider raising funds on our behalf – from a cake stall to running a marathon – you can donate by visiting our Get involved and fundraising page .

Since its establishment as a charity in 2010, The Alcohol Education Trust (AET) has developed, piloted trialled and rolled out a highly evaluated alcohol education programme, Talk About Alcohol, across England and Scotland. It has been made available to every secondary school free of charge, meaning over 4,100 schools and organisations have been supported cumulatively and these settings continue to be supported ongoing.

Each year now, the AET regionally based specialist staff train an average of 1,200 health educators, school nurses, tutors and professionals ensuring non specialists learn how to implement the TAA programme or continue their professional development.

The AET supports an average of 80,000 parents and carers each year via its newsletters, face to face supportive talks and online advice. We help parents understand their importance as role models, knowing where their children are and in setting firm boundaries ensuring we push up the age of first whole drink to our goal of at least the CMO guidance of age 15.

The AET have invested in engaging interactive games, quizzes and activities that are not only fun and enjoyable, but are now proven to significantly raise the age that the children who use them choose to take up drinking. In addition, we have focused on picture and story led activities too, to ensure an average of 6,500 children with moderate learning difficulties (SEN), who are more prone to alcohol abuse, enjoy access to our resources each year.

We also manage an on line learning zone used by up to 1,000 young people a day all about alcohol via www.talkaboutalcohol.com

You can learn more about our work by reading our latest impact report here:

Registered charity numbers: Eng. and Wales 1186202, Scotland SCO50360

Alcohol Education Trust charity information guide 2021

Funding

We are very grateful to our current and past funders and business supporters as well as those who provide support in kind, a range of whom include: