Grassroots Suicide Prevention, a local charity that challenges stigma and discrimination relating to suicide and mental ill-health, has organised a range of key events to mark World Suicide Prevention Day in Brighton & Hove this September.
On Saturday, September 7 & Sunday, September 8 from 10 am–5 pm, the charity will be holding an event with information stands taking pledge signatures, selling books and giving out suicide prevention resources to the public on Brighton seafront. There will be the chance to tie a ribbon of hope or remembrance to the famous Kissing Sculpture, and there will be a Zumbathon to raise money and celebrate life.
Grassroots have room for two or three other local organisations to have a stand. If you would like to join them, email: chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk
From Monday, September 9–Friday, September 13, Grassroots will be hosting a free, outdoor photographic exhibition featuring beautiful portraits with a clear stigma reduction message in Jubilee Square, outside Brighton Library.
World Suicide Prevention Day itself takes place on Tuesday, September 10, and will be marked by Grassroots Suicide Prevention from 7–9.30pm at BHASVIC Sixth Form College, Hove.
The evening’s events will include: a performance from Right Here, a local project led by young people; a personal story from local artist Yvonne J Foster of how a suicide prevention intervention touched her life; a minute’s silence to remember those we have loved and lost to suicide; a screening of the charity’s new film ‘Something in the Silence’; a speech from James Moncrieff, Deputy Principle of BHASVIC Sixth Form College; Brighton & Hove’s Deputy Mayor; and an update from Grassroots on the first year of our Suicide Safer Brighton & Hove Project
If you would like to attend email: chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk by August 30.
Event: World Suicide Prevention Day
Where: BHASVIC Sixth Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, BN3 6EG
When: Tuesday, September 10 from 7pm.
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