CH A RITY S PO NS O R
2023 in the world of Dad La Soul Dad La Soul charts another year full of activity, adventure and awards.
From launching new
Charity
events with an array of different partners
in a host of different locations to being
recognised in the corridors of power,
it’s been an eventful 12 months on our
mission to battle social isolation in dads. Our Worthing playdates for dads and their kids have continued to grow, as have the dads-only night time events. We’ve also
added another dads-only meet-up in Hove with Freedom Works, and in Brighton in
association with Propellernet and the Early Birth Association. In addition, this autumn
saw us complete our first year of Brighton playdates at Plus X, which have proved a huge success.
During the summer, Dad La Soul
partnered with the Baton of Hope, the
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UK’s biggest ever suicide prevention
gender equality and engaged fatherhood.
school playdate and even opened the
Interest also came from Sussex University,
initiative. For that, we hosted an afterdoors to mums for the first time!
In June, we received a letter from
Number 10 Downing Street to tell us that the Prime Minister had chosen
Dad La Soul to receive a Point of Light
award. Rishi Sunak wrote: “Through Dad La Soul, you have built a community of dads with global social impact. Congratulations, and thank you.”
But it wasn’t only the PM’s office
that we infiltrated in Westminster. In
November, our founder Dan Flanagan attended the House of Lords for a review of the State of the World’s
Fathers report. It was a proud moment
to have Dad La Soul take its place as a
credible part of global conversations on
with whom we worked on a research project case study that used us as a
model of a successful social enterprise. Online, we launched a new podcast,
Dad La Soul Extra Time, which provides listeners with chat topics to take to the pub or drop into the WhatsApp chat. And our Dad La Soul Sessions live
stream included a powerful and funny
interview with journalist Sam Delaney as well as chats with a self-defence expert, a comedian who jokes about his mental health, a man who takes on extreme challenges to raise money to save
babies’ lives and many many more. All in all, 2023 has been a riot. Here’s to more of the same in 2024.