Press releases
AET Impact Report 2022
It’s with immense pleasure that we enclose our Impact Report detailing the work of The Alcohol Education Trust across England and Scotland during 2022. We are immensely humbled by what our small team manages to achieve across the UK and their passion in delivering...
Student designed and informed campaign to #endspiking and promote safer nights out for freshers
Student designed and informed campaign to #endspiking and promote safer nights out for freshers to be featured at over 80 universities this September The Alcohol Education Trust (AET) is a youth charity with 13 years of experience supporting young people age 11- 25 to...
Home Affairs Committee publish report and recommendations to address drink spiking
The Alcohol Education Trust are extremely pleased with the recommendations from The Home Affairs Committee on Drink Spiking. Helena Conibear our CEO submitted both written and verbal evidence to the Committee and is thrilled that nearly all of the proposals that the...
Life Stuff: New well-being website for 16-25 year olds
Our amazing work with The Longleigh Foundation has enabled us to double our remit and extend our work to support young people up to the age of 25. As a result of this, we are very excited to launch our brand new website for 16-25 year olds - www.life-stuff.org . The...
AET gives evidence to The House of Commons in Drink Spiking Evidence Review
AET CEO Helena Conibear today presented evidence to The House of Commons Drink Spiking Evidence Review. Helena provided valuable data and detail about the topic of drink spiking including information from The Alcohol Education Trust's survey of 750 16 – 25 year olds...
AET releases Impact Report for 2021
The Alcohol Education Trust has published its Impact Report for 2021. It has been a transitional year for the trust, opening Pavilion in the Park (PiP) as our office and training/community space in April in the heart of lockdown, doubling our remit to support young...
His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall formally opens Pavilion in The Park (PiP)
On the 6th December His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall formally opened Pavilion in The Park (PiP), built and run by us. Before raising the funds to build PiP, we ran our operations from a garden garage in Frampton, so the move to a purpose-built...
Drug and Alcohol Education Conference June 2021
On the 28th June, The Alcohol Education Trust and DSM Foundation held a day or workshops and speakers on Alcohol and Drug Education at the beautiful City of London Guildhall. We were kindly hosted by David Mackintosh from The Drug and Alcohol Policy Forum. The...
What have we achieved over the last year? AET Impact Report
We are very proud to release our Impact Report for 2020. We have extended our reach into new geographical areas as well as supporting more vulnerable young people in 2020 than ever before. We have also begun to extend our remit to support young adults up to the age of...
Pavilion in the Park (PIP) – cafe and meeting hub build hand over to charity on The Great Field Poundbury
The building was handed over by builder C G Fry, who have built at cost on Friday 15thJanuary ready for fit out, with PiP café and community hub planning to open in early April. The Pavilion is very eco friendly with solar power, air source heating, reclaimed tiles,...
AET launches case study films on ‘Alcohol and the Law’
We were thrilled to launch two new films of case studies for older students during Alcohol Awareness Week. In the films, two young criminal litigation lawyers from Kinglsey Napley LLP consider important case studies around alcohol. In the first film, they talk through...
Publication of RSHE Implementation Guidance from the DfE
New guidance has been released by The DfE for Relationship, Sex and Health Education and can be read here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health The guidance mirrors the Alcohol Education Trust Charity ethos, whereby, DfE states that...
Changing the legal status of The Alcohol Education Trust
As part of the planning for our new office, community space and café at the Great Field, Poundbury and a review of our internal governance the Alcohol Education Trust will change its legal form from a Trust to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with effect...
Drug and Alcohol Education Conference reschedule for 28th June 2021
We are delighted to be co-hosting the Drug and Alcohol Education Conference 2021 in partnership with the Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation and The City of London Corporation on 28th June please 2021. Youth professionals and teachers will hear from leading experts on the...
Drug and Alcohol Education Conference 2020 – Why it matters and how to do it well
We are delighted to be co-hosting the third National Drug and Alcohol Education Conference 2020 in partnership with the DSM Foundation and The City of London Corporation on June 19th. Youth professionals and teachers will hear from leading experts on the latest...
2019 Impact Report
Our latest Impact Report is now ready and you can take a look via https://alcoholeducationtrust.org/2019-progress-report-v1-0/ The report highlights the work we have done during 2019, our 10th Anniversary year, with updates from our regional staff, our impact and...
AET’s 10th anniversary celebration
2019 is the AET’s 10th anniversary year and the final celebration took place on the 7th November at the House of Lords. We had a very hurried change of venue due to the dissolution of parliament and we are so grateful to The Lord Speaker, Baroness Stedman –Scott and...
AET’s new premises!
We are delighted that, thanks to the support of so many, we have now raised enough money to build the Pavilion in the Park (PiPs) - our new café, community space and office. PiPs will be located on the Great Field in Poundbury, Dorset – you can read all about it here:...
Pavilion in the Park – an update on our project to create a cafe, office and community space on the Great Field at Poundbury
Thanks to the wonderful pledges received through crowd funding, we received over £22,000 from both on and offline donations including £10,000 of match funding from Dorset County Council Youth Fund. Our 10th Anniversary Ball raised over £30,000 and we have received...
The National Lottery Community Fund awards grant for youth charity community space and café project on Poundbury
Embargoed until midnight 10th June The Alcohol Education Trust is delighted to have received £10,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund during this, our 10th Anniversary year. This grant is to support the building of the Pavilion in the Park (PiP's) in...
The Alcohol Education Trust to support schools across Scotland
We’re thrilled to announce that The Alcohol Education Trust (AET) has established a Scottish office, located in Glasgow City Centre and kindly hosted by The Wise Group and so is now able to support schools across Scotland with its highly evidenced and award winning...
Café Office and community space for youth charity on The Great Field, Poundbury
We’re thrilled to announce that The Alcohol Education Trust (AET) will be building a community space, café and office on the Great Field at Poundbury in 2019. For the last ten years, the AET have operated out of a garden garage in Frampton. This has been excellent in...
National Alcohol and Drugs Conference 2018 – Presentations now available
The National Alcohol and Drugs Conference 2018 was held on 21st June 2018 at Liverpool John Moores University The welcome address was delivered by The Public Health Institute Director Mr Jim McVeigh. Keynote addresses by Rt Hon Nick Gibbs, Minister of State at DfE...
New information leaflet summarising AET background, impact and future goals
We have recently produced a leaflet to give background information on the Alcohol Education and the work we carry out. The leaflet gives information on who we are, what we do and why we are needed as well as illustrating our approach to reducing alcohol-related harm,...
Evidence-based best practice in alcohol and drugs education: empowering young people to make healthy choices in the classroom and beyond
A day for professionals to hear from leading experts on the latest research on alcohol and drugs prevention, attend a choice of workshops on evidence-based programmes and receive planning and evaluation advice for effective PSHE. On 21st June 2018 two charities, The...
AET selected for potential funding from the Aviva Community Fund – do please vote for us!
We are delighted to have been selected by the Aviva Community Fund for potential funding. The Aviva Community Fund aims to make a positive difference in local communities and members of the public are invited to vote for projects that will make a difference in their...
National Alcohol & Drugs Education Conference 2018 – Save the Date
Empowering youth through prevention and education Save the date: 21st June 2018 More details coming soon – watch this space About the conference Alcohol and drugs are taught at a basic level through the science curriculum in schools, but the life and resilience skills...
Why do parents and teenagers consistently overestimate the percentage of young people who drink alcohol and the prevalence of drunkenness?
Press release: Embargoed until 4 September Why do parents and teenagers consistently overestimate the percentage of young people who drink alcohol and the prevalence of drunkenness? Parents and carers think they are justified in supplying alcohol to teens because...
AET shortlisted for two awards
We are delighted to hear that the Alcohol Education Trust has recently been shortlisted for two awards for our work to minimise alcohol related harm among young people and delay the age of first consumption. Having been the Highly Commended finalist in the best...
AET runners up in the national Education Resource Awards 2017
The Alcohol Education Trust are very pleased to be national runners up in the national Education Resource Awards 2017 best secondary school resource (non ICT) and we were also finalists in the best secondary school resource including ICT. AET was pitched against much...
The AET and Mentor host The first National Alcohol and Drugs conference on evidence based school programmes
On the 19th October The AET and Mentor jointly hosted The first National Alcohol and Drugs conference on evidence based school programmes. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office Sarah Newton MP made her first speech on the Government alcohol and...
National Alcohol & Drugs Education Conference
National Alcohol and Drugs Conference Evidence-based best practice in alcohol and drugs education - Empowering young people to make healthy choices Date: Wednesday 19 October, 2016 Venue: Middlesex University London A day for professionals to hear from...
AET shortlisted for the Kings fund GSK IMPACT Awards
We’re thrilled to announce that the Alcohol Education Trust was one of twenty charities shortlisted out of the 400 entrants for The Kings Fund GSK IMPACT Awards, for charities assessed to have had the most impact on health in 2016. We receive a runners up £3,000...
‘Talk About Alcohol’ listed as a Promising practice on the European Platform for Investing in Children
'Talk About Alcohol' has been listed as a Promising practice on the European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC)! The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) is an evidence-based online platform which was launched in 2013. Operated by the European...
Report on the parental engagement through schools in Halton
The AET have trialled a new approach with a group called Social Sense who run a programme called RU Different? in schools to make young people aware that most young people don’t smoke, get drunk or try drugs - we engaged with 9 schools across Halton to involve parents...
Can six lessons over 2 years in school on alcohol really affect the age that teenagers start drinking?
**Strictly under embargo until 00:01 (BST) Wednesday 2nd September 2015** Can six lessons over two years in school on alcohol really affect the age that teenagers start drinking? Over 40% of all the 4,400 children surveyed at outset had already had a whole drink,...
The AET calls for Alcohol Education to be taught in schools as part of PSHE
The Alcohol Education Trust (AET) welcomes the report of the Education Select Committee on PSHE and SRE Life Lessons: PSHE and SRE in Schools to make personal, social, and health education (PSHE) statutory in schools in a bid to encourage safe, sensible and...
AET’s 4TH BIRTHDAY – Read about what we have achieved in our first four years
AET’s 4TH BIRTHDAY - Read about what we have achieved in our first four years Read more
How has the AET spent £250,000 over the last three years? (Feb 2014)
How has the AET spent £250,000 over the last three years? (Feb 2014) Press release
AET evaluation findings presented at House of Commons today (Oct 2013)
AET evaluation findings presented at House of Commons today (Oct 2013) Press release