Raising Awareness Of Our Work Across The South-West

In 2015 we gave a presentation to the steering group and reference group of the South West Zero Suicide Collaborative (SWZSC), one of 3 pilot schemes for the Government’s zero suicide initiative. They described our work as “inspirational” and “extraordinary”.... Read More

National Lead On Suicide Prevention

In November the National Lead on Suicide Prevention for Public Health England (Helen Garnham) visited our Suicide Crisis Centre. As a result, she asked us to give a presentation at an event in London this month for Public Health Leads,... Read More

Shadow Minister for Mental Health Visits Our Suicide Crisis Centre

Thank you so much to the Gloucestershire Echo for their coverage of Luciana Berger’s visit to our Suicide Crisis Centre this month. The link to the article is below:- http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Shadow-mental-health-minister-Luciana-Berger/story-28489597-detail/story.html... Read More

Luciana Berger, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Speaks About Our Suicide Crisis Centre

Thank you very much to Luciana Berger, the Shadow Minister for Mental Health, who visited our Suicide Crisis Centre yesterday, the 7th January 2016. In the interview that she gave to BBC Radio Gloucestershire about our Crisis Centre, she said:-... Read More

Large Number Of Crises At Christmas

Special thanks for everyone who has been working at our Suicide Crisis Centre and our Trauma Centre over the Christmas period. We have had a large number of emergency situations in recent days where we have also needed to involve... Read More

World Mental Health Day

We are massively grateful to the Gloucester Citizen today for their two-page feature on the background to the setting up of the charity and reasons for it, including the founder’s own suicidal crisis in 2012. In the print version they... Read More

News Item

Thank you very much to the Gloucestershire Echo for this article, which highlights the huge increase in the number of clients accessing our services over the weekend, the number of high risk situations, and the fact that we are now... Read More

Meeting With Government Adviser

We had a very interesting meeting in London last week with Louis Appleby, who is the Government’s adviser on suicide. He was very prepared to go into some difficult areas of discussion with us, and responded very openly and honestly.... Read More

Suicide Crisis “inspirational”

We were invited to give a presentation to the reference group and steering committee of the South West Zero Suicide initiative in February. The South West is one of three regions where the Government’s Zero Suicide is being piloted.  We would... Read More

All Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide

Joy was invited to a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Suicide and Self Harm on Tuesday.  She spoke about our charity, the excellent feedback from clients, and the fact that no client has died by suicide whilst... Read More