About Life Skills Education Charity

We are Life Skills Education Charity. We help young people manage risk.

Originally brought to Mansfield in 1995, DARE programmes have been delivered to nearly 400,000 young people throughout the UK.  Life Skills Education Charity believe that all young people deserve the right to lead safe and healthy lives and achieve their potential.  We do this by providing evidence-based, professional resources to schools, local authorities and community groups.

Since 1995 there have been over 10 iterations / re-designs of the primary programme (now DARE 25) as well as the creation of 2 secondary programmes and the DARE Game.  Our development team have also worked on external resources such as On Track and Keep On Track in collaboration with local business as well as the Police and Local Authorities within Nottingham.

2018 saw the publication of the first independent, randomised control sampled evaluation of a UK based DARE programme, a combined effort by Nottingham and Nottingham Trent Universities involving 60 schools and over 1500 young people.  It showed that the work that we do has a statistically proven positive impact on our learning outcomes.