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Welcome to the Grassroots Suicide Prevention blog.
Here, you'll find reflections from our CEO, campaign information, How To guides, interviews and much more.
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Ben Raemers' passion for life and skating was contagious, matched only by his skill. At 13, he petitioned his local council to build a skatepark. At 18, he was competing professionally and grabbing attention from the biggest skate brands in the world. At 25, he won ‘King of the Road’, one of the toughest skatebording comps in America.
Phoebe is a final year student studying to be a Mental Health Nurse. She is also a keen runner and has signed up to support Grassroots in the London Half Marathon and the Brighton Half Marathon as a member of the Grassroots Runners.
Raquel is a Grassroots Suicide Prevention supporter and fundraiser who has appeared in our blog before. She is always keen to support us and to spread the message of suicide prevention far and wide. She set herself the challenge of fundraising for us through an amazing 40 events in a year!
In September, our friend and supporter Natty will be cycling solo from Brighton 2000 miles around the UK. Find out about his challenge and what it means to him.
To give some more context to the Ask Now Save Lives campaign we took some time to speak to the artist behind the design. Ladies and gentlemen we give you Anthony Burrill
We spoke to Wendy Robinson, Service Manager at Rethink's local Survivors of Suicide service, to ask her about SOS and our ‘Ask Now Save Lives’ campaign.
Danny is a registered nurse, happiness coach and mindfulness teacher who is trying to help people around the planet make sense of meditation.
This current week has been National Carers Week. We took this chance to get in touch with Brighton organisation Sibling Link – find out more about what they do here.
This week is National Volunteering Week. All of us, at some time in our lives, will hopefully get the chance to volunteer in some way for a cause we feel is important.