A message from our CEO

This isn’t business as usual, and it’s a time of great stress and uncertainty. It’s also a moment in time when the work we’re doing is its most critical.

My time and thinking is now wholly focused on COVID-19 and on how DMSF can restart, recover and best play its role to ensure the mental health needs of our young people, staff and supporters is met. My team and I want you to know DMSF will continue to do its part, and we won’t stop looking for new opportunities to ensure the most vulnerable in society are supported.

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Taking the chance out of success for our young people, and making it a choice

We need YOUR help

Our response to COVID19 will define a generation. Please donate and help us to support the most vulnerable children and young people in our care so that they can cope with today and prepare for tomorrow.

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Every penny that you give will go straight to initiatives that support those families most in need in the community.

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“It’s like family really, it’s like home”
Hasan Uddin DMSF Young Person & Sports Leader

Our Young People

For the next few months DMSF will focus its support around giving to those in the most critical need and supporting our young people is of the utmost priority. To this end we’re working hard with our partners and the local community to coordinate support for our young people; this includes access to remote training sessions, exercise videos, live streaming initiatives, top tips to cope during lockdown; 1:1 counselling over the phone and online, and an online mentoring service. Visit our Young People section on the website for more information!

Donate through Ziffit

You can donate to favourite charity directly through Ziffit, a free online service that values unwanted Books, CDs, DVDs & Games. Use this lockdown time to clear out your drawers and wardrobes, and show your support for DMSF by trading in your unwanted belongings for money that will be donated straight to the Foundation?

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The 2.6 Challenge

Help our very own Bex change the world and Save the UK’s Charities! We need your support to keep our young people safe, fed and happy. DMSF Programme Manager Bex Wilson will be taking on the 2.6 challenge to help raise vital funds for DMSF. You can help her hit her target of £1,026 by donating TODAY.

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Coronavirus FAQs

Answers to frequently asked questions to offer guidance in responding to the coronavirus disease, COVID-19

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Our Partners

For the next few months, DMSF will focus its support around giving to those in the most critical need and supporting our young people is of the utmost priority. To this end we’re working hard with our partners and the local community to coordinate support for our young people, but we need YOUR HELP to do more. Click here to read how we’re coordinating our efforts with KIND and Whitworths.

DMSF secures £10,000 Awards for All grant

DMSF has successfully secured a £10,000 grant through the National Lottery ‘Awards for All’ funding programme, to continue its popular ‘Powerhouse Group’ project supporting vulnerable young people in Greater Manchester. The ‘Powerhouse Group’ project, which has been...

Rewriting the rules

Charities are facing a complex new reality as a result of Covid-19. To ensure its programmes are fit for purpose, DMSF has further developed its governance framework thanks to an innovative partnership project with the Young Guns Leadership Programme at Laing...

Back to school

It’s back to school for DMSF Programme Manager, Bex as she embarks on a Post Graduate Certificate in International Sports Management at the University of London. Bex secured a place on this prestigious course as a result of winning The World Academy of Sport (WAoS)...

The results are in!

Bryggen Sports Invitational meeting on Saturday 13 February at the Manchester Regional Arena, provided the stage for fast times and PBs galore in Manchester, as athletes seized the chance to compete and reach European standards. Competing in the women’s 3000m DMSF...

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The Diane Modahl Sports Foundation (DMSF) is a registered charity which works with young people from disadvantaged areas across the North West, enabling them to make the most of themselves in sport, school and life.

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