Dry January 2021
Organised by Alcohol Change UKFundraise while taking on the official Dry January for better sleep, more money in your pocket, healthier insides, more energy, brighter skin, and so much more!
Story
Thank you for fundraising for your Dry January.
If you reading this, you're probably already thinking about your drinking. Lots of us feel like we're drinking a bit too much, or would like to take a break. A month off at the start of the year - and after the boozy Christmas season! - is the perfect way to reset your relationship with alcohol.
Perhaps you just feel like taking a break from drinking or want to take on a fundraising challenge. Whatever your reason: thank you! Not only are you doing a great thing for yourself, you're helping other people too.
Don't forget to download Try Dry, your free Dry January app! You can use it to keep track of all the money you've saved and the calories you've avoided. You can even set yourself goals and targets, earning badges along the way.
Your Dry January will do amazing things for your body but it can do amazing things for others too. Every day 20 people in the UK die as a result of alcohol. Help us change that and save lives.
Mali, now 18, lost her mum when she was far too young. She agreed to share her story to help show why change is so important.
I lost my mum twice, her real self and her physical self.
"Alcohol changes a person and it did just that to my mum, Kitty. She was clever, brave, inappropriately funny, generous and one of the most loving people there was.
"Ask anyone who knew her before she started drinking a lot and they wouldn't be able to agree more.
I would do anything to get my mum back. Anything. I don't want anyone else to ever go through what I'm going through, or to have this massive hole that's going to be within my heart for the rest of my life.
"That's why I'm fundraising, because my mum deserves to be remembered for everything that she was. Don't get me wrong, she wasn't perfect, but who really is? I'm not saying she didn't hurt me because she did, but that was her alcohol side I want to prevent alcohol harm and all the awful effects of it. Our drinking culture does I believe encourage and normalise this.
"Did you know that 20 people in the UK die as a result of alcohol harm every day? That's not just statistics. That's a person. A person with aspirations, dreams, fears, faults, talents and their own unique personality. That's 20 communities broken.
"So why aren't we doing more about it? I don't know, you tell me. But we can all start by doing a little thing. Whether that's being a listening ear, going alcohol free for the week, sticking to a sensible number of units or. Maybe even sponsoring someone
"I love you mum , more than you'll ever know. Let's love and be kind guys."