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World Suicide Prevention Day 2012

Sinead O’Connor

Held at The Latest Music Bar in Brighton, 125 people gathered on 10 September 2012 to mark this day. The event included:

  • A live skype interview with activist and performance artist Kate Bornstein about mental health and suicide prevention.
  • Sinead O’Connor
  • A live skype interview with singer/songwriter Sinead O’Connor about mental health and suicide prevention.
  • A live skype interview with Roy Henry Vickers, a First Nations artist and spiritual leader.
  • A speech by Kevin Betts about his personal experience of his father’s suicide.
  • A message from the President of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP).
  • The launch of our Suicide Safer Brighton & Hove project.
  • A minute’s silence to remember those we have loved and lost to suicide.

There has been a 32% increase* in women's suicides

Globally, 250,000 women take their own lives every year. 

This World Suicide Prevention Day, you can help support women at risk by donating or training with us.

*between 2012-2022, ONS data