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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Guest Blog: Real Talk – be part of the change by The Honest Dad
For some reason, people think you can’t talk about suicide unless you’ve felt suicidal. Similarly, there is huge misconception (quite often) that if anyone speaks about suicide, they themselves are suicidal…
Chris’ ChangeMaker Story
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.
Raquel’s ChangeMaker story
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
Ben’s ChangeMaker Story
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.
Episode 1: Grassroots Gig Round-Up
Music, singing, laughter and magic – not words you would usually associate with ‘suicide prevention’ but this is exactly what we had for the first episode of our Grassroots bi-monthly Gig, which took place in Brighton on March 6th 2019.
Starting the year with Grassroots Suicide Prevention
Hello lovely people and welcome to 2019 from Grassroots! We know that people approach the holiday period with all sorts of worries and that getting through this period can be tough.
Grassroots win Suicide Prevention Award at National Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards 2018
Thanks to everyone who has supported us and of course our heartfelt thanks to our Real Talk community for starting conversations that really do save lives. This one is for YOU.
Alright Mate
This campaign focuses on encouraging male friends to look out for each other. The aim is to foster open and direct conversations about any concerns, including thoughts of suicide and mental health issues.
Stay Alive urban art project
This was a project engaging young people creatively to promote suicide prevention in their communities, whilst creating on-street adverts for our mobile phone app Stay Alive.
Suicide Safer Brighton & Hove
On World Suicide Prevention Day 2012 Grassroots Suicide Prevention publicly launched our intention to work with city partners towards Brighton & Hove becoming a ‘Suicide Safer Community’.