The Jordan Legacy CIC was established in memory of Jordan Phillip 

Significantly reducing the number of suicides is one of the biggest transformational change challenges facing the UK. It will take collaboration – by all those who have a vested interest in preventing deaths by suicide – on a scale we have not experienced before.

Our mission is to help us move toward a ‘zero suicide society’ which, in our eyes, is a society that is willing and able to do all it can to prevent all preventable suicides by facilitating that collaboration amongst those who want to see the suicide numbers move on a downward trend, towards zero.

Most suicides are preventable, so our goal must surely be to prevent most suicides!

Our Challenge

Across the UK, more than 6,000 people die by suicide each year, and this has been the case for the past 15 years with no downward movement in the annual death toll.

In each and every case of losing a loved one to suicide, the impact is devastating, as it was with losing Jordan. And the pain of suicide loss endures.

Not everyone is affected by suicide but anyone can be affected by suicide.

There is also a huge ripple effect. An average of 135 people are impacted by each suicide death (family, friends, work colleagues, neighbours, etc) which means more than 800,000 people in the UK are affected by a suicide death every year.

For each suicide death, around 20 people make suicide attempts. Research suggests that most people who attempt to take their own lives do not want to die, they simply want to escape the intense mental or physical pain they are suffering. People in crisis often feel hopelessly trapped and need support through their crisis.

The reasons people choose to end their lives are often complex and varied. There is often no single contributing factor which causes someone to take this most drastic of actions. What we do know is that many who make suicide attempts do so without letting anyone close to them know they’re considering taking their own life.

How can more people be aware of the signs, in ourselves and others, and better understand how to take action to save lives – through early identification, early intervention, suicide prevention initiatives, ‘postvention’ support for those experiencing loss, and positive promotion of optimal mental health?

How can we work together – those with lived experience of suicide, those already working in suicide prevention, governments, communities, workplaces, etc – to help individuals and groups create hope through action and get the annual suicide death toll on a downward trend, ultimately towards zero?

A Suicide Prevention Act – our 2023 petition to parliament

On 20 July 2023, we launched a petition to parliament for a Suicide Prevention Act, comprising a package of 15 measures that our Action Research Project told us would help get the suicide numbers on a downward trend, towards zero.

This petition closed on January 19th 2024 by which time we had received more than 10,400 signatures from those who supported this petition. As of this update, we are now awaiting a formal response from parliament, which is activated once 10,000 signatures have been received.

The Jordan Legacy is a not-for-profit business with purpose. We are a registered (Registered No. 12784768) Community Interest Company (CIC). All income received goes toward our mission of seeking ways of better supporting those who are feeling a sense of entrapment and hopelessness and, specifically, to reduce the number of lives being lost to suicide.