Our most popular alcohol resources
Contact us to book these resources for your event or training session. Images reproduced with the permission of HealthEdco and Gasp.
Models & interactive displays
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What is a unit?
Audience: Young people and adults Details: The five 3-D models in this display are designed to help people understand how many units are in popular alcoholic drinks |
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How alcohol calories add up
Audience: Young people and adults Details: The six glasses in the display are labelled to show how many calories are in popular alcohol drinks and how many of those calories come from fat, carbohydrates, and alcohol |
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Weigh Your Options Alcohol Drinks Display
Details: Weighted bags with images of popular drinks let participants feel the effects of extra calories. Weights ranging from 1 to 5 lbs reflect weight gained as a result of daily consumption of each beverage for a month. |
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Can you pour a unit?
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Participants learn to gauge the alcohol units in their glasses and examine whether they are exceeding their recommended alcohol limits |
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Alcohol unit measure guide
Audience: Young people and adults Details: A plastic cup designed to help measure alcohol units in spirits, wine and beer. |
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Abuse, Booze and Lose Display
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Set of 9 lightweight, plastic alcohol bottles are a clever way to teach about the consequences of alcohol abuse and binge drinking. Bottle labels parody well known brands of alcohol with names such as Be Wiser, Captain Moron, and Southern Discomfort. Topics on the labels range from straightforward statistics to costly consequences |
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What you should know about binge drinking [Folding display]
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Send viewers on a "thinking binge". Loaded with compelling facts about the consequences of excessive drinking, this folding display forces young people to take a sobering look at their attitudes toward alcohol use. Discusses alcohol poisoning, explains how sexual behaviours are influenced by alcohol, and gives information on getting help for a drinking problem. 147 cm x 57 cm opened. |
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Substance abuse chart set
Each of these nine charts details the harmful effects caused by the abuse of a particular drug. Organ damage appears in realistic detail. Each chart is laminated and measures 24" x 36" |
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Pickled Liver Model
Audience: Young people and adults Details: This plastic specimen jar contains a BIOLIKE 2™ model of a cirrhotic liver floating beside a pickle. |
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Drug and alcohol inflatable catch clever ball
Audience: Young people and adults Details: This ball has 31 questions that will give students a thorough introduction to this topic. Can be used in schools and counselling sessions or at home. Comes with pump. |
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Beer Goggles
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Wearers of the goggles experience the visual distortion, loss of perception, and lack of control that make drunk drivers so dangerous. Can be used with other resources (remote control cars; cones; lines on the ground) to illustrate to non-drivers how alcohol affects movement and judgement. Can also be used as a sex education resource showing the impact of alcohol use when applying contraception. |
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Night-time Beer Goggles
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Specifically designed to simulate the night-time conditions that drunk drivers may face, the goggles are perfect for demonstrating how alcohol affects depth perception, reaction time, and coordination. |
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What mummy does baby does
Details: Cigarette butts, pills, and beer bottle caps suspended in plastic. The model graphically illustrates how alcohol, tobacco, and other substances cross the placenta and damage a foetus. |
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Mum's lifeline to baby
Audience: Young people and adults Details: This simple model showing baby, umbilicus and placenta, is designed to explain the effect of mum’s smoking on the levels of oxygen that pass through to baby in the blood (but could also be used in alcohol education). A ‘clip’ is used to represent how blood oxygen levels are restricted by mum’s smoking, denying baby some of the oxygen essential for healthy growth. Comes with explanatory notes and other information. |
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Foetal alcohol syndrome poster and leaflet pack
Details: Set of posters and leaflets designed to raise awareness of foetal alcohol syndrome and issues surrounding alcohol consumption during pregnancy. To be used for display purposes. |
DVDs
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Binge drinking DVD
Audience: 14+ Details: 22 minute programme for use with young people aged 14 plus. Covers binge drinking, physical effects of alcohol, reasons for bingeing and addiction, risks and consequences and responsible behaviour. |
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Get Your Head Round It – Drugs & Alcohol
Format: DVD Audience: 13+ Details: DVD and CD-ROM providing a catalogue of 10 short films and themed lesson plans. Includes a wide range of accessible resources to support teachers and youth workers to deliver effective drug and alcohol education. Covers all aspects of UK drug culture, treatment and vox pops. Watch a clip |
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Kick it – binge drinking
Format: DVD Audience: 13-16 Details: 10 minutes. Delivers powerful anti-binge drinking message. Covers binge drinking effects, alcohol information and health issues, peer pressure and personal safety. |
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Call it a Night
Format: DVD Details: DVD and learning resource designed to be used for alcohol education programmes in schools and other settings. Aims to raise awareness and issues around alcohol use, peer pressure, risk taking, sexual health and responsibilities of parents. Set in Rotherham. Watch a clip |
Teaching packs, games & activites
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Alcoshots: young people in alcohol related situations
Audience: Ages 14-19 Details: Trigger photographs. Aims to raise young people’s awareness and to promote sensible appropriate drinking behaviour. |
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ZONES: Board game
Audience: 11-15 years, although can be played by 16+. Ideally suited for 3 groups of 4-6 people. Details: Zones is aimed at encouraging young people to think and talk about issues including: smoking, alcohol, drugs, sex and relationships. Includes: Counters and dice, 4 sets of cards and instructions |
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Alcohol dilemmas card game
Audience: Young people Details: A competitive card game for young people which focuses on information about alcohol and explores the options in a wide range of alcohol-related situations |
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Drunk in charge of a body
Audience: Young people Details: This teaching resource provides flexible learning packages that can be modified to suit different groups of young people at different stages of development. It enables professionals to demonstrate the link between sexual health and the effects of alcohol. For use in schools and youth groups, it prompts active discussion and participatory learning about alcohol and its effect on personal and sexual relationships, and increases awareness of the positive and negative influences of alcohol. Cultural values and attitudes, risk-taking behaviour, conflict resolution, the development of skills in decision-making, and communication assertiveness are all explored. |
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The world of alcohol: skills for the primary school child
Audience: 5-11 Details: Resource to increase young children’s knowledge about alcohol and its effects. Contains: 7 key lessons; photocopiable classroom materials; 11 workshops for teachers |
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Drink Deal: Its Your Round card game
Audience: 11+ Details: An active, enjoyable card game for young people age 11 upwards and adults. Its aims to challenge and extend existing knowledge about alcohol, and to learn something new. 4 sets of 24 cards. |
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A little book of alcohol 2nd edition 2012
Audience: 11-19 Details: For young people, alcohol can be easy to access, but how do they know how much is safe to drink? What if they don't want to drink but all their friends do? Do they know what the effects of drinking alcohol are? This hands-on resource will help young people understand all the facts about alcohol, encourage them to think about and discuss the issues, and help them make positive choices. It is packed with engaging and imaginative activities that explore issues such as safe drinking, peer pressure, risks, the effects of alcohol, and alcohol and the media. Activities range from fun group games and challenging quizzes to role-plays and thought-provoking discussions. |
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Hammered: young people and alcohol
Audience: 10-25 Details: Extensive examples of exercises and numerous photocopiable resources will help you address issues such as gender, drinking patterns, role models, cultural differences and the law...in ways that are relevant to the whole of the UK. They cover breaking the ice, passing on information, challenging attitudes, and problem-solving skills. Plus there is advice on devising and delivering programmes in different settings (for example, in clubs and detached settings) and details of services that can provide further support, consultancy and resources. Among the resources provided are two quizzes (for 10-11 year-olds, and 11-15 year-olds) and (tucked inside the back flap of the manual) a 2 sided poster, folded so that it can also be used as an information leaflet telling 'a tale of drink, sex and violence' in cartoon form. |
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The Healthy Mission CD-ROM
Audience: 5-11 Details: This resource provides teachers with the knowledge and tools to deliver accurate, consistent and credible, healthy lifestyle messages to young people aged between six and eleven years (Key stages 1 & 2). Topics covered include healthy diet, exercise, risk taking and the dangers of alcohol and smoking. The resource contains a Teacher Pack with guidance on using the CD-ROM and sign posting information. |