The Daniel Morcombe Foundation celebrated its 15th Birthday yesterday.

The Foundation was launched on May 5 2005, the Friday before Mother’s Day, because Denise Morcombe wanted to create a lasting legacy and memory of Daniel and also wanted to help keep other children safe. In these early days the Foundation had three main objectives: to continue the search for Daniel, to educate children about their personal safety and to assist young victims of crime.

“I wanted Daniel’s legacy to shine over Australian Children in an effort to ensure all children were safe,” said Denise.

Bruce and Denise made it their mission to find their son and to help ensure a similar tragedy could not happen to any other child or family.

They were relentless in their search for Daniel. But as time went by, they turned this drive and motivation into keeping all kids safe by producing and distributing numerous child safety educational resources. They also continued their pledge to assist young victims of crime and families of missing persons.

Denise said “Our commitment was and still is that every educational resource we produce will be available FREE of charge and made accessible to every Australian.”

Now, after 15 years the Daniel Morcombe Foundation is a nationally recognised as one of Australia’s largest child safety organisations and a go-to authority for media comment and social media influence

In 2020  Daniel House has a team of 10 dedicated and talented employees, a counselling service and a victims of crime funding program.

Bruce said “Now equipped with our own head office and employing key specialists with national reputations, there’s no stopping what the Daniel Morcombe Foundation will achieve next”.