Julie Edwards & Ron Thompson Out Of The Darkness Cometh Light Raglan St 

Anglo Saxon Pillar AD 996 St Peter’s Church Garden 

Jelly Ear Fungus 2024 Smestow Valley Nature Reserve Wolverhampton

('Meccano') Warren Truss Bridge no.60A. 1914 Smestow Valley Nature Reserve Wolverhampton

Hugh Tessier Ionic Order 1991 Wednesfield Rd. Wolverhampton

Brick Work Sculpture 1970 University School of Art 

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY events September 2024
Digital Disability
in Association with 
Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum Charitable Trust

Activities that took place at Urban Rooms 01902 – Queen Square, Wolverhampton

Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th September 2024

Photo Exhibition Open   Tuesday 10th September 11.00 – 16.00 – 

Welcome and Launch lunch Exhibition:      

11.00 am – Welcome and Launch Exhibition:                

12.00 – 16pm  Refreshments – Talk on Exhibition

Organisations In Attendance 

The Recovery College – Kooth Moves - P3 - Talking Therapies -  Samaritans

Wednesday 11th September 11.00 – 16.00 – All Welcome

Photo Exhibition                    

Event-Walk – Art in the city  : 01902 to University – 

 Painting a Picture - Fragments

Macmillan Cancer Support Bus 

Thursday 12th September 

Photo Exhibition

Event  Unspoken Word Poetry Event 

Light Lunch 

Open Friday 13th September 

All WelcomeExhibition         

Event- AI  Image Creation Workshop

Event: Walk – Art in the city Walk: Urban Rooms/01902 to Chapel Ash roundabout 

Open Saturday 14th September 

Photo Exhibition  

Special thaks to our volunteers and everyone who came along to support these events.

What Makes You Happy Event
Mander Center Community Hub
6th January- 6th February 2024

Out event included an art exhibition by local artists work, different organisations occupying the community hub each day to promote their support services and activities. There was a constant theme throughout that explored What Makes You Happy in relation to the use of safety planning in suicide prevention: 
Sometimes we all struggle with dark thoughts, when we are feeling low we can follow our prepared plan to get us through. By focusing on thoughts and activities that lift our spirit, the plan can help get us throught to better times. 

Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum Charitable Trust
 

 

Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum Charitable Trust works to prevent suicide in Wolverhampton through its activity and actions. It can also provide funding for others to prevent suicide in Wolverhampton.

What the charity does:

• Education/training

• The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

• Arts/culture/heritage/science

• Other Charitable Purposes

Who the charity helps:

• Children/young People

• Elderly/old People

• People With Disabilities

• People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

• Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

• Other Defined Groups

• The General Public/mankind

How the charity helps:

• Makes Grants To Organisations

• Provides Advocacy/advice/information

• Sponsors Or Undertakes Research

Where the charity operates:

• Wolverhampton

Walk of Hope.

A walk to raise awareness of suicide, and the help and support available to people in the city.

The Hopewalk, being held as part of Papyrus' national Hopewalk campaign, will also lift the lid on suicide to get people talking about it in order to #smashthestigma.

The Hopewalk takes place on Tuesday (22 October) from 12.30pm to 1.50pm, beginning from St Peter's Square outside the Civic Centre and following a circular 2 and a half mile route around the city centre. People can walk the whole way, or join part way along. 

Walkers will be carrying leaflets about the help and support available in Wolverhampton to give out to members of the public, and visiting the premises of some of the Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum members to raise awareness of the help and support they provide. They will also deliver resources to pass on to local people who use their services. 

Some walkers will be carrying collecting tins to give members of the public the opportunity to make a donation to the Mayor of Wolverhampton's Charitable Fund, as Mayor Councillor Claire Darke has nominated suicide prevention work as one of the Mayoral Charities this year. 

For more information and to sign up, please visit Hopewalk.

Mayor Councillor Darke, who will be hosting a reception at the end of the walk, said: "The Hopewalk will showcase the good work being done by organisations and individuals across Wolverhampton to support people at their greatest time of need.”

Councillor Jasbir Jaspal, Cabinet Member for Public Health and Wellbeing, added: "The council and its partners are committed to tackling stigma around mental health and suicide, and to highlight the help and support which is available to people who are going through a troubling period in their lives.

“The message is clear; if you or someone you know is in a dark place, don’t suffer in silence – help and support is out there.”

People who experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide are encouraged to contact:

• The Papyrus Hopeline, phone 0800 068 4141, text 0788 620 9697 or email pat@papyrus-uk.org. 
• Samaritans Wolverhampton, call 116 123 free from any phone, 24 hours per day 365 days of the year, or visit its office at 54 Newhampton Road West, log on to Samaritans or email jo@samaritans.org. 

Both provide a confidential listening service and will help with any overwhelming thoughts or feelings, or ones that make life feel like it’s not worth living.

Thursday 17th October, 2019
 

Support Life Art Exhibition November 2019

Introduction
This social value report represents the Support Life Art Exhibition, and explores the significance of delivering a project relating to the importance of maintaining good mental health. A project that promotes the mental health and wellbeing of all people that make up our community, explores the tragedy and impact of suicide through the mediums of Art, Music, Film, Poetry and Performance and acknowledges the social value of delivering a suicide prevention ‘freely available to all’ public service.

Throughout November 2019 from Tuesday 5th until Saturday 30th Real Arts Workshops¹ (RAW) successfully delivered the Support Life Exhibition from the Light House Media Centre² in Wolverhampton. Real Arts Workshops (RAW) create high- quality and innovative Art, Craft and Music workshops to meet with the educational, welfare and recreational needs of people

that live in the Black Country. As such, RAW deliver public value projects, which support in developing resilient and confident communities that are a good place to live.

The Support Life Exhibition was commissioned by Dr Paul Darke, chief executive of Outside Centre³. The said charitable organization works with the social model of disability. Its primary objective is to recognize and respect the nature of disability through the Arts, Media and Culture while promoting the importance of education, good health and well beingness.

Paul Darke created the highly successful ‘Wolves in Wolves’ sculpture trail which ran from July to September 2017 as supported by Wolverhampton City Council and Wolverhampton’s Business Improvement District (BID) and ‘celebrate’ a Big Lottery funding initiative.

The purpose of the sculpture trail was to promote public engagement with Art and Culture while providing educational, economic and public health benefits.

Further to the event the Wolf sculptures generated £35,000+ at auction. The said finance was distributed among the Mayor’s selected charities. The ‘Support Life Wolf’ created by Alex Vann (one of RAW’s directors) was included in the ‘Wolves in Wolves’ sculpture trail, and continues to be present in the grounds of Wolverhampton University Millennium building. The said sculpture provided inspiration when naming the Support Life Exhibition, which is the subject of this social value report, and is dedicated to Alex’s close friend, the late musician and social activist Rich McMahon.

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City marks World Suicide Prevention Day

10/09/2019 

World Suicide Prevention Day

The efforts of individuals and organisations in Wolverhampton to aim to prevent suicide were highlighted on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Wolverhampton's Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum held a special event on 10 September 2019 to showcase the good work taking place to raise awareness of suicide prevention and the importance of good mental health and wellbeing, and to open up a dialogue around this complex issue.

The University of Wolverhampton offers suicide and self harm prevention training to staff and students through its Three Minutes to Save a Life programme, developed in collaboration with Connecting with People.

There were 6,507 suicides registered in the UK last year, with three quarters of these men. The most common age group for suicides was between 45 and 49 among both men and women.

Mayor of Wolverhampton Councillor Claire Darke, who has made the Wolverhampton Suicide Prevention Stakeholder Forum one of her chosen charities for her year in office, will be hosting Tuesday's event, attended by dozens of local organisations who are playing an important role in the city's suicide prevention strategy.

Councillor Darke said: "As we mark World Suicide Prevention Day, this event will be an important opportunity to showcase the good work being done by organisations and individuals across Wolverhampton to support people at their greatest time of need."

https://www.wlv.ac.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/2019/september-2019/city-marks-world-suicide-prevention-day.php