ChangeMakers Archives - Grassroots Suicide Prevention

Georgie’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:02:50 +0000

Georgie attended one of Grassroots Suicide Prevention's courses and was "blown away". She blogs about her experience of our training and what she learnt.

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Recent Fundraising for Suicide Prevention

Gus — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:58:36 +0000

We are always super grateful to all of our fundraisers because they enable us to do the work we do and are a great way of spreading awareness for suicide prevention.

Guest blog: Suicide and essential ways of preventing it

Gus — Mon, 20 May 2019 08:31:21 +0000

Suicide, a subject which many are too afraid to discuss but is sadly becoming more and more common.

Jane’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Thu, 09 May 2019 09:30:18 +0000

June 21st 2015 Father’s Day. A beautiful sunny day full of promise. Old friends arrive for lunch. We eat good food and drink wine.

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Grassroots Facilitates Real Talk at the Sea View Project

Gus — Thu, 02 May 2019 08:57:28 +0000

Last month we delivered a Real Talk suicide prevention workshop at the Sea View Centre in Hastings. We ran the session for 15 community members, enabling them to have open and honest conversations about suicide.

Kate’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:13:42 +0000

For me, a turning point was when I realised that the secret that I had held so buried and precious for so long, had slowly reached the place where I now both wanted and needed to acknowledge and talk about it.

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Chris’ ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:41:57 +0000

Suicide wasn’t something I’d been directly exposed to until a close friend of mine told me he’d tried to take his own life.

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Raquel’s ChangeMaker story

Gus — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:40:48 +0000

I got in touch with Grassroots about a year and a half after the loss of my sister. The idea of fundraising and helping a suicide prevention and awareness charity had been brewing in my mind

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Ben’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:27:51 +0000

My background around my own experiences of suicide left me with a keen interest in the topic and desire to be able to help people who were in a similar position to me.

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