#JoinTheDots Tour
Over the coming weeks, we will continually update this page as we confirm all that is happening along the tour route and when.
It’s time for a Breakthrough in Suicide Prevention: Our Zero Suicide Society Transformation Programme: In 2023, we published what’s been described as a “ground-breaking” report ‘Moving Towards a Zero Suicide Society’, mapping out what such a society looks like and the practical actions that will get us there.
Now we’re rolling out this strategy!
The #JoinTheDots Tour is from 12th to 23rd June, starting on June 12th with the Launch Conference in Scunthorpe (at the magnificent Baths Hall).
Here are the tour events confirmed so far, with much more to be announced soon:
June 13th – York:
The #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots Tour from the Humber to the Mersey, 12-23 June, comes to York, to the City Screen, on Thursday 13 June, with an exceptional panel discussion event and the stunning film, WHY, made by Inspired Youth for York Ending Stigma.
Schedule
12 to 2pm: Panel Discussion Event “Inclusion and Missing Pieces in the Suicide Prevention Puzzle”
3pm to 4.30pm: First screening of the film WHY
7pm to 8.30pm: Second screening of the film WHY
Meet those featured in the film (and the film-maker), who will be joining us afterwards for a Q&A.
Venue: City Screen, Coney Street, York
How to book your place to attend and further details via this Eventbrite page: Click here.
This screening of the stunning York Ending Stigma film ‘WHY’, provides unparalleled insights into the lives of 6 people who have struggled with life, or continue to struggle with life, a film made by the multi-award-winning social enterprise, Inspired Youth.
There will also be a lunchtime event on “Inclusion – Missing Pieces of the Suicide Prevention Puzzle” highlighting those groups of people with higher-than-average suicide rates who are often hidden from view, excluded in a number of ways, including often not featuring in suicide prevention strategies.
This event will cover suicide & suicide prevention issues for older people, (hidden) carers, and York’s biggest ‘ethnic minority group’ – Gypsy & Traveller communities. It will shine a light on York’s suicide prevention community, the City’s current efforts to tackle poverty, and the multi-agency digital inclusion partnership ‘Digital Friendly York’.
We will be joined on the York leg of the Tour by Alison Dunn, CEO of Citizens’ Advice Gateshead, who will be participating in a number of the activities lined up (including being one of our panel members at the Conference). Alison brings all her experience of ‘Inclusion & Missing Pieces’ issues from her role at Citizens’ Advice and also her personal lived experience of recently witnessing a suicide.
June 14th – Leeds/Wakefield
“Cycle for Life” is your opportunity to join Steve on a 34+ mile cycle, taking in locations where Jordan lived and worked. 34 miles has been specifically chosen as the distance, as this was the age Jordan was when he took his own life. This is an event for cyclists of all abilities and is not going to be a competitive ride.
Registration and further details coming soon.
June 15th – Leeds
Working closely with our partners Rugby League Cares Foundation, plans are starting to come together and we hope to share details of more inspiring joining of the dots activities very soon.
June 16th – Halifax/Huddersfield
Paul and The Jordan legacy have are working in collaborative partnership with the Rugby League Cares Foundation and we expect to announce some exciting and inspiring events happening locally, themed around it being Father’s Day…so watch this space!
June 17th Rochdale/Oldham
Details coming soon.
June 18th – Bury
In a wonderful gesture, the Council has donated the Theatre for the day. We will also be visiting the craft workshop at The Big Fandango community arts centre & craft workshop. The Big Fandango was set up by Rebecca Jackson after she lost her 16-year old daughter, Elspeth, to suicide in 2014. Rebecca provides suicide prevention training, and craft-based peer support & therapy.
Rebecca pulled together the UK’s very first ‘Speak Their Name Quilt’ where people bereaved by suicide make a piece to remember their loved one, and the pieces are joined together into an aesthetically & symbolically beautiful quilt.
This first Quilt was commissioned by the Greater Manchester Suicide Prevention & Bereavement Support Programme, which is co-ordinated by Adele Owen, and it’s inspired many more ‘Speak Their Name Quilts’ across the UK.
June 19th – Wigan
There’s been incredible enthusiasm in Wigan and there’ll be another full day of events and activities, co-ordinated by Ellie Palma-Cass from EPiC-HOPE CIC :
We have 10 collaborative partner organisations in Wigan, including The Grand Arcade in Wigan Town Centre.
We’ll be at the former huge Debenhams store which is now run by Rebuild with Hope, for indoor activities & gym as well as us having outdoor activities, including the cycle club, rugby, football, men’s groups, a storytelling circle, a ‘campervan counsellor’, and the Wigan Community Choir.
Public Health Wigan are organising & funding a Business Lunch for 60 businesspeople & key influencers to educate them around suicide & suicide prevention, and hopefully inspire them into action, as well as this being a fundraising opportunity as well.
Our local organiser Ellie has promised us some ‘surprise guests’ on the day, so there’ll be some ‘faces’ well known in Wigan and across the Region, possibly even nationally-known figures!
More details coming soon.
June 20th – Warrington
We’re working in collaborative partnership with Warrington Wolves & the Rugby League Cares Foundation to have a ‘community day’ at the Stadium. Current discussions are exploring a breakfast time immersive mental health and suicide prevention experience, which will also showcase what is being achieved as a collective in the Warrington area.
Other events during the day are also being explored which could appeal to parents and to the local business community – this is suicide prevention education in action.
June 21st – Merseyside
– We have events planned in St Helens in the morning, then on the Wirral in the afternoon with an ‘open house’ at one of the UK’s great pioneers in suicide prevention, and one of suicide prevention’s greatest success stories, the Martin Gallier Project.
June 21st – Liverpool
Then we’re being hosted in the evening at the location of another extraordinary success story, Sean’s Place.
Debbie Rogers lost her brother Sean to suicide in July 2019 and set up Sean’s Place to be “the kind of place that might have kept Sean alive, that might be able to help other men like Sean”.
It began with Debbie and half-a-dozen men in a room in a community centre and in 2023, Sean’s Place supported 3,000 men!
June 22nd – Liverpool
In the morning a Mass Choir event is being organised in Liverpool (more details soon).
June 23rd – Liverpool
In the morning, there will be a wonderful ‘Hope Gathering in Hope Street.’
June 22nd/23rd – Bootle
The big finish! A 2-day ‘Merseyside Festival with Lived Experience Voices‘ at the glorious Lock and Quay.