The new “Saving Lives” blog website features articles written by Joy, the founder and CEO of Suicide Crisis. It includes new articles, as well as some of her articles featured in national newspapers including “Men and suicide: what they are... Read More

Joy, our Founder and CEO, was named in the Independent newspaper’s “Happy List” 2019. The list is “an antidote to awards that celebrate wealth or celebrity”. The Happy List celebrates people in the UK who “give rather than take”. Everyone... Read More

In June we were contacted by a senior project manager from the Ministry of Health in New Zealand. She is leading on their new national suicide prevention strategy. She explained that she had read Joy’s book about our work, had... Read More

We are delighted to announce that Hilary Rawles, one of our most experienced team members, has been named “most inspiring woman in the charitable sector” in the south west for 2019 by regional newspapers. She won the award for her... Read More

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