Crisis Help; Emotional & Social Support in Lincolnshire

As of today, we are proudly offering a digital cafe called CHESS, which stands for Crisis Help; Emotional & Social Support and aims to prevent male suicide in Lincolnshire. The Digital Café will provide a space for men to meet virtually for support.   The sessions will provide opportunities for sharing experiences, learning mental wellbeing techniques, and […]

FREE Suicide Bereavement training for Notts

Sometimes its not easy to know what to say or what to do following a loss through suicide, but we should not let that prevent us to providing support to someone who may need it the most. This evidence-based, CPD-accredited course is suitable for anyone who would like to know more about suicide bereavement, especially […]

The Older Population and Self harm

Often when we consider self harm the public will focus on the younger population. However, self harm doesn’t discriminate and neither do we.   The BBC News released an article on Thursday (3rd June 2021) focusing on self harm in the older population and the impact of the pandemic. Colin Menz, Self harm Service Manager, […]

A garden transformation to celebrate Volunteers’ Week

Yesterday, volunteer; Darren, clinical support worker; Anne and myself, transformed the outside space at the Beech Avenue office from an underused yard to an urban garden. The project has been a long time in the planning. Last autumn at our staff day we discussed the Five Ways to Wellbeing (connect, be active, take notice, learn […]

Why our e-learning is so important

For our services, training and education are absolutely vital. Why? Because we can enhance knowledge, understanding and confidence for absolutely anybody interested in being better equipped to respond to issues around mental health, self harm and suicide. Why else? Because we can generate income to sustain and grow our life-saving clinical support services. For our […]

Thanks for beleafing in us!

A massive thank you to Brooklea Nursery in Leicestershire, who yesterday kindly donated plants, planters and compost for our garden project. CEO Caroline and COO Darren, had the pleasure of getting away from their laptops and heading out in the sunshine to choose some items to add some colour to the space outside our Nottingham […]

We are a proud bunch!

We can not describe how excited and humbled we are to announce that the Let’s Talk Training team at Harmless have recently received an award from Education and Training Awards 2021, as the Most Compassionate Suicide Prevention Support Service. In the short four months so far of 2021, the training team has already delivered 118 training […]