Champion

PAPYRUS is working towards building suicide-safer communities across the UK. You can get involved as a volunteer to help us achieve this goal.

You can:

• Deliver presentations to people in your community, such as schools, workplaces, and faith groups. These are 30-minute sessions called SP-ARK: Suicide Prevention – Awareness, Resource, Knowledge
• Attend events and run stalls such as Pride, county fairs, wellbeing days, University freshers’ fairs, and fundraising events.
• Write blogs posts and get involved on social media about your lived experiences of suicide and mental health.
• Help us to reach your communities by connecting us with groups and organisations you care about.
• Share new ideas: we’re always open to new opportunities to make our communities suicide-safer.

This opportunity is remote. Volunteers can do tasks from their home as well as getting involved in events at a number of locations within the local area and further afield across the North East (if the volunteer is willing/able to travel).

You can register volunteer interest here: https://vhub.at/PAPYRUS-EN 

Skills

We don't expect volunteers to have any experience or qualifications but this role requires talking to members of the public about PAPYRUS and suicide prevention. This role requires empathy and understanding of people's difficult experiences and a level of comfort in talking about suicide prevention, as well as a willingness to help reduce the number of people who die by suicide. Training is provided.