2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Small, innovative and effective organisations that are combatting suicide in their local community and beyond.
The Rose Paterson Trust Grant Recipients are working to prevent suicide in their local community and beyond.
Each of these charities are passionate about their work. Their innovative approaches to suicide prevention are effective and demonstrate real results. They save lives and spread hope.
Small charities are often overlooked by funding organisations, despite having a huge impact on their service users, community, and region. The grants provided by The Rose Paterson Trust are therefore crucial – enabling the continuation of vital programmes, recruitment of staff, and the growth of life-saving organisations.
Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team
The team of trained chaplains tirelessly patrol the 4.5 mile long cliffs every day of the year at Beachy Head, one of the National Trust’s main tourist locations but also a suicide hotspot. Skilled negotiators tread the paths night and day no matter the weather to intervene when people need it most. The team also respond to call-outs and work in partnership with local response services.
Bearded Fishermen
Founded by two men while fishing, the Bearded Fishermen is a grassroots initiative to plug the gap where statutory services fall short. The team respond to need by utilising an army of volunteers, running their own call line and hosting an inperson drop-in centre with individual and group activities. They also act as crisis responders, rapidly deploying to people in need day and night, and running street watch patrols to reach people in their moment of need.
Every Life Matters
Training, campaigning and awareness. The team at ELM create quality content to boost people’s understanding of suicide and their skills to combat suicide in themselves, their families and their friends. Literature is created and distributed across the UK, coupled with active training programmes in Cumbria and across the North West. The charity is active in schools, having tailored specific material for young people and are rolling out programmes in the educational settings to look after the next generation.
If U Care Share Foundation
The If U Care Share Foundation’s prevention work begins with young people from the age of 4+, with the understanding that early years mental health education is vital to improving resilience in adulthood. They reach the most vulnerable people of the community and provide long term emotional and practical support.
Kintsugi Hope
A growing network of quality group mental health provision, providing a safe space for people to come together and build their emotional wellbeing. Using the Church and Christian networks provision is rolled out at scale, supported by high quality training, materials and infrastructure. The safe spaces focus on open conversations, with the central programme providing an easily replicable structure and format to ensure support can be widely available across the country.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse works at the heart of the community, working to prevent suicide in Belfast. The team provide crisis support, de-escalation of suicidal risk, youth services, counselling services, art therapy and complementary services. Central to their services is a quick and effective response to a mental health emergency, aiming to stabilise the person in crisis and create a safe environment for the individual and people around them.
Mentell
Mentell is committed to reducing male suicide across the UK by scaling access to high-quality peer-to-peer support. Strategic priorities focus on expanding reach, deepening community engagement, and integrating our services within the NHS. The vision is to ensure every man aged 18 and over has access to a safe, non-judgemental space to talk – no matter how big or small the issue. The charity runs free to access in-person and online peer to peer support circles across the UK, unique in their application of data and technology both as interface and tool to boost engagement.
Mikeysline
Mikeysline aims to tackle head on the staggering rate of suicide in the Highlands, Islands and Moray. Providing accessible, non-judgemental and confidential peer support, available to anyone who is struggling. Their accessible mental health services are accessible through multiple face to face Hives, including our main Inverness Hive open every evening 6pm – 10pm, and mobile Hives travelling to remote areas. The team also provide extensive support online, telephone, textline and directly through local schools.
Pillar Kincardine
Pillar Kincardine is a community mental health organisation for people aged 16+ experiencing mental illness or distress across Aberdeenshire. Services provide the tools people need to direct their own recovery journey and include 1:1 support sessions; a structured programme of group activities facilitating skills development and improved capacity to self-manage conditions; and counselling services providing professional assistance in resolving personal or psychological problems.
R;pple Suicide Prevention
R;pple was formed by Alice in response to the tragic passing of her brother Josh, and the discovery of the vast availability of harmful online content. The charity has developed a software which can be downloaded onto devices and Wi-Fi networks which intercepts online searches, instead providing a message of home and redirection to immediate crisis and long-term mental health support. This means people can be reached when alone and when most vulnerable. Services are free for schools, colleges, charities and families, and available as a subscription for businesses. Corporate partners now include Network Rail, Heathrow Airport and Premier League Football.
Salute Her
Salute Her UK is a charity that provides specialist support for women in the armed forces and veterans across the UK. They deliver therapeutic and trauma recovery, specialist oneto- one and group therapy for military sexual trauma, PTSD, and complex trauma. The team also offer safe, inclusive spaces for women to process experiences and rebuild identity, dedicated support for women who’ve served in maritime roles, and specialist suicide prevention programmes.
Scarborough Survivors
Scarborough Survivors operate a Resource Centre with a drop-in facility which is open seven days per week, alongside a Crisis Café which is open seven nights per week. The team deliver a safe space and mental health support for people who are struggling with severe mental health and suicidal ideation.
Shropshire Mental Health Support
Round the clock support from a call centre, drop-in sessions and home visits. From The Rose Paterson Trust funding, Shropshire Mental Health Support also run a mobile wellbeing vehicle which travels to rural locations and many other areas to ensure that people who are struggling have access to the support they need.
Stable Lives
Stable Lives provide respite days and courses for children and adults to improve mental health and well-being and educational support for children and young people in crisis, or experiencing long term trauma. The focus is on preventing suicide and self-harm and supporting people on their recovery journey towards a positive future free from the limitations of the past. The charity combines equine activities and looking after horses as a therapeutic intervention, with structured classes and interventions running concurrently to create a reflective, positive and productive environment.
Suicide Crisis
Suicide Crisis are a small, grassroots charity providing a Suicide Crisis Centre and a Trauma Centre in Gloucestershire. The charity was set up to respond to growing need in an area with scant provision and often overlooked. The team provide relationship centric, face to face, intensive crisis support, working directly with people who are actively seeking to end their life. Their service emphasises meeting with people in positive environments, such as their own home or neutral spaces to ensure people always feel comfortable to engage.
Suicide Prevention UK
Suicide Prevention UK helps anyone struggling with thoughts of suicide and those navigating grief having lost someone to suicide. They operate an extensive call centre, fielding thousands of calls from across the UK with lines open every single day late into the night. Alongside their call centre, the team also deliver outreach on the streets of Bristol, combining crisis response call outs with street patrols in known suicide hotspots. The charities have a vast array of volunteers supporting their services, who are able to draw on their own experiences to build rapport with people and ultimately save lives.
The Martin Gallier Project
The Martin Gallier Project is a family founded suicide intervention, prevention and postvention charity with a range of services focused on free, immediate and non-clinical support. The team are dedicated to ensuring there are no barriers to receiving support, underpinning their “on the high street” approach for people to see them and walk into their safe spaces. This physical presence is a hallmark of the charity, enabling people to walk in and find the right help at the point of need. Once accessed, the team work with service users through a series of one-to-one engagements to help them through their recovery journey.
Zest NI
Zest NI run professional counselling services and receive referrals from statutory services following a suicide attempt. The people they work with are consequently extremely vulnerable. Their focus is on ensuring they can be proactive and responsive by operating with zero waiting lines. The Self-Harm Intervention Programme is contracted to the Western Health and Social Care Trust, but their mission is to reach the many other people who are missed by health care services.