Our Team
Steve Phillip – Founder and Director
For more than 11 years, Steve ran a successful consultancy practice, providing coaching, training and as a keynote speaker in the world of social media and sales & marketing. However, on December 4th 2019, he received a call which would change his life forever – his son Jordan had taken his own life.[...]
Paul Vittles FMRS FAMI FRSA – facilitating transformational change to move towards a zero suicide society
Paul is a Research Fellow, change consultant, coach and counsellor. He has been a core member of The Jordan Legacy team almost from the outset, helping Steve develop and deliver The Jordan Legacy’s strategies and activities to support optimal mental health and suicide prevention.[...]
Danielle Phillip – Operational Support
Danielle is Jordan’s sister and for the past 17 years, she worked at a Lancashire primary school, helping young people as they began to navigate their journey in life. Arguably Danielle’s work and raising her 2 son’s has helped keep her busy, with little time to really dwell on the tragedy of losing her brother to suicide.[...]
Andy McMenemy – Peak Personal Performance / Suicide Prevention – our partner
Andy is an award winning speaker, facilitator, leadership development mentor, personal development coach and behavioural change specialist. At one point in his career he collapsed through stress and decided to leave a highly successful corporate position to rebalance his life.[...]
Tara Powell – Mental Health First Aid England Trainer – our partner
Tara is an established mental health instructor, offering Mental Health First Aid England certified, face to face and online courses. Tara’s courses include half day Mental Health Aware (Adult & Youth), one day Mental Health Champion (Adult & Youth), two day First Aider (Adult & Youth) and First Aider Refresher (Adult) courses as [...]
Steve Carr – Suicide Prevention Training – our partner
After experiencing a breakdown at work, Steve decided to raise awareness of the issues surrounding mental health and homelessness by completing a challenge to walk from one end of Great Britain to the other. He undertook this challenge whilst he was still in recovery and also homeless himself.[...]
DSC Chartered Accountants – our partner
DSC Chartered Accountants has been supporting Yorkshire businesses for over 50 years, with offices in Harrogate, Leeds and Skipton.[...]
Just ‘B’ (North Yorkshire) – our partner
As of 2023, The Jordan Legacy is thrilled to be partnering with another North Yorkshire-based support organisation. Just ‘B’ is one of a range of services offered by registered charity North Yorkshire Hospice Care, which also includes Herriot Hospice Homecare and Saint Michael’s Hospice Harrogate.[...]
Big Ian Donaghy – our Master of Ceremonies
Big Ian. The name fits him like a supersize glove. Ian Donaghy, all 6ft 2ins of him, has big ideas, huge energy and a massive Geordie heart.[...]
Alice Hendy
Josh had been researching techniques to take his own life via harmful internet searches. Horrified by how easily such information could be accessed, Alice decided to use her experience in designing and implementing successful cyber awareness and education programmes, to ensure more help and support is given to individuals searching for harmful cont[...]
Danny Wilsher
You may also have seen Danny feature on the 2023 Channel 4 Series The Piano, with Claudia Wilkenman, and pianist, educator and philanthropist Lang Lang and singer-songwriter and entertainer Mika. The audience who packed London’s Royal Festival Hall were moved to tears as Danny played and sang his own composition, ‘Learn to Live’[...]
Richard McCann
Brought up on the ‘At Risk’ register until his mother died tragically when he was aged five, Richard then went on a downward spiral. Foster homes, children’s home and then a violent upbringing by his estranged father took away any self esteem that he had. He left school with no qualifications and was kicked out of the army for psychologic[...]
Melody Reed
For this year’s event, Melody will be performing a song written in collaboration with BBC Radio York’s Poet Laurette, Olivia Mulligan. The song is an extremely moving version of Olivia’s poem called ‘Stay’ which was written in 2021 specifically for The Jordan Legacy.[...]
Andy McMenemy
When someone loses their ability to thrive in life, the consequences can be devastating, no more so than following the death of a loved one, however they pass.[...]
George Evans
George’s mission is to show society that trans people can and do lead regular lives too. He also supports others in the LGBTQIA+ community and strives to be the voice for those that are too afraid to speak out.[...]
Jenny Thrasher
Jenny is the author of “Growing Through Grief” a guide to healthy healing after losing a loved one to suicide. She is also the founder of Growing Out Of Darkness and a recognized advocate for suicide prevention.[...]
N-Act Theatre in Schools CIC
N-Act Theatre in Schools CIC ‘s play ‘Invisible’ is about mental health which touches on suicide and self-harm – leaving the audience with the key message that we need to talk – and listen! It is a true story, from someone who told us they want their story to be shared with young people. If they had been able to talk when they w[...]