Joy, our founder and CEO, was a guest on BBC TV’s Victoria Derbyshire show on 22nd January, commenting on the newly published cross-government suicide prevention workplan. Details of the interview will be in our newsletter next month.... Read More

The founder of Suicide Crisis, Joy Hibbins, was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2019, for services to vulnerable people. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3177786 Prior to this, in November, she was awarded the Janey Antoniou Award “for... Read More

Our thanks to Sky News for interviewing Joy about the new book “Suicide Prevention Techniques: How A Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives” on 24th December. The live interview on their breakfast programme focused on the book at a time when... Read More

The book “Suicide Prevention Techniques; How A Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives” was written by our founder and CEO Joy Hibbins to explain in more detail than ever before the reasons why all clients under our care have survived. She... Read More

This month we were invited to attend a consultative group meeting at the Ministry of Justice focusing on legal aid reform. This was in relation to evidence which we provided from our research into deaths by suicide in Gloucestershire. We... Read More

This article written by our CEO in The Independent continues to be shared. She explains, from her own experience of having been sectioned, why women are at particular risk of suicide while detained in psychiatric hospital. “A high proportion of... Read More

Joy, our CEO, and Katharine, CEO of Agenda, were guests on the BBC Radio 4 programme “Woman’s Hour” on 22nd August, talking about the new CQC figures which show that more women than men are dying by suicide while detained... Read More

This article, published in The Independent this weekend, explains how we respond to emergencies during a 24 hour period at our Suicide Crisis Centre, at a time when a heatwave brings increased numbers of clients, and staff shortages within mental... Read More

We will be speaking alongside Madeleine Moon MP, the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on suicide and self-harm, at a Public Policy Exchange symposium in London on the 22nd May. The focus of the event is “strengthening the... Read More

Joy, the founder and CEO of Suicide Crisis, has been named as one of the “fifty greatest Gloucestershire women of all time” by our local newspapers in the county. Dame Janet Trotter, the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, worked with our... Read More