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The Alcohol Education Trust is a youth charity that works across the UK supporting young people in schools, youth organisations with to help keep 11-25 year olds safe around alcohol and other substances. We provide free award-winning resources and training as well as...
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...