Ana Margaret is part of Future Voices programme in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers. Future Voices is a unique leadership programme which works with migrant domestic workers to become spokespeople and speak out against the issues that their community face.
Ellie Hatto is the founder and voice of Beside Yourself CIC, a lived experience-led social enterprise focused on talking openly about life after suicide. This thought piece aims to amplify the voices of those who have lost a loved one to suicide, shining a light and raising awareness of their subpar experiences within the flawed coroner’s inquest system. Ellie urges individuals and organisations involved in shaping the system to reflect on how their actions or inaction adversely affect those bereaved.
Chloe Juliette a care-experienced social researcher and facilitator. Here, she shares her insights into the complex relationship between lived experience and policy development.
Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. For Children’s Grief Awareness Week 2023, Anna reflects on how very different a child’s experience of grief can be after the loss of a parent or primary caregiver, depending on how that person’s life ended. Anna is in our Spokesperson Network.
Siobhan Down is the Founder and CEO of Yellow Brick Road Projects. Having experienced poor education, homelessness, debt, exploitation, exclusion, Siobhan now supports young people who face similar experiences to find their seam of GOLD to amplify their voices so that everyone can hear what is going on. Here Siobhan reflects on the weight of those experiences of young people.
Members of our Future Voices network, our partnership programme with The Voice of Domestic Workers feature in a new BBC World Service documentary about their experiences of being mothers and migrant domestic workers. Here, Carol shares what it was like to take part in the project and share her story.
Next week [Monday 16th October 1-2pm] Sounddelivery Media will be hosting a lunchtime panel to showcase pioneering lived experience experts leading the debate around suicide prevention and the impact of bereavement. A subject which matters to all of us. The government recently published a new national strategy on suicide prevention and has pledged to reduceContinue reading “A Conversation on Suicide – from the perspectives of leaders with direct experience”
Maggie Gordon-Walker, is the founder of Mothers Uncovered, a Sussex peer-led organisation that supports women in matrescence (the transition to motherhood) with creative groups led by past participants. In this blog, she explains the mental health difficulties facing mothers.
Anna Wardley is the Founder and CEO of Luna Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the support for children after suicide. Anna’s dad, Ralph, took his own life when she was nine and that loss had a profound impact on both her own life and the lives of those around her. In her Mumsnet’s guest post, she explains her campaign, Time to Count. This campaign urges the government to count the number of children who are impacted by the suicide of a parent or primary caregiver in the UK.
Sam Southern is a Lead Suicide Prevention and Bereavement Coordinator at Empowerment Charity in Blackpool. As a dedicated mother of five, Sam has faced adversity, including the tragic loss of her husband to suicide in June 2020. This experience has driven her passion and commitment to raise awareness and offer hope to those who may be struggling. In this guest blog she talks about approaches to suicide prevention, sharing her experience.
