A group of 20 workers from Cumbria County Council are currently leading the IASP Cycle Around the Globe challenge, which aims to raise awareness of community-based suicide prevention activities by collectively cycling 24,900 miles.
Read MoreInspiring SBS Cumbria member raises money for local causes with a sponsored bike ride.
Read MoreTaking a look back over SBS Cumbria’s first year.
Read MoreBook review of Reflections on Lives Lost: A Journey through Suicide, a part of our books collection. Part of our user-submitted book review process.
Read MoreBook review of Rocky Roads by Michelle Lin-Gust, part of our books collection, submitted by suicide bereavement support group facilitator Emily.
Read MoreAt the tender age of six, Marie-Elsa Bragg tragically lost her mother to suicide. Many years later in 2019, the priest and therapist published a collection of poetry, prose and fragments of unsent letters to both her mother (Lisa Roche) and father (broadcaster Melvyn Bragg) in an attempt to reconcile her loss. Half French, half Cumbrian, Marie-Elsa has worked for over 20 years as a Spiritual Director to people of all faiths and is a strong advocate for international interfaith relations. Our announcement of Marie-Elsa as patron for Cumbrian charity, Suicide Bereavement Support (SBS), marks the charity’s first anniversary.
Read MoreJohn Brown explains the services that SBS are offering during lockdown.
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a challenge....meet it
a gift....accept it
an adventure....dare it…
Reluctantly, the steering group of Suicide Bereavement Support has decided that, under the circumstances, we cannot continue to offer monthly face to face meetings. We are profoundly sorry about this and will restore the meetings as soon as it is safe to. Online meetings will take place weekly every Thursday from 6.45 to 7.45pm.
Read MoreOn 7 March 2020 at 11am as part of an event called ‘Words by the Water’ being held at The Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, a writer called Marie-Elsa Bragg who tragically lost her mother to suicide when she was six- years-old is speaking about her book called ‘Sleeping Letters’.
Read MoreTHE WIFE of a suicide victim has held out a heart-rending hand to help the family of people who have taken their own life. Patricia Armstrong, 62, from Carlisle, lost her husband Neil ,43, four and a half years ago after being married for only eight weeks. Now she's fundraising for the Cumbrian charity Suicide Bereavement Support.
Read MoreA group of nine entrepreneurial students in Workington have raised more than £700 for a local suicide bereavement charity by upcycling tin cans as part of Gen2’s National Apprenticeship Week Entrepreneurial Challenge.
Read MoreOpening up about how you're feeling is so important and we shouldn't shy away from it... Angela Samata
and Bryan Kirkwood discuss this and more in the #DontFilterFeelings podcast.
A group of nine entrepreneurial students at Gen2 in Workington are rising to the challenge of up-cycling old tin cans into saleable items made for everyday use. When the group of Business Administration apprentices had the idea of turning an old tin of baked beans into desk tidies, their creative juices started flowing and a business case was generated.
Read MoreA group of ten entrepreneurial students at Gen2 in Workington are rising to the challenge of up-cycling old tin cans into saleable items made for everyday use. When the group of Business Administration apprentices had the idea of turning an old tin of baked beans into desk tidies, their creative juices started flowing and a business case was generated.
Read MoreOn Wednesday 22 January 2020, we will be hosting a meeting for anyone based in the Barrow-in-Furness area who has been affected by suicide. The meeting will take place between 7pm and 9pm and details of the location will be provided upon request.
Read MoreSuicide Bereavement Support is hosting an introductory session to establish whether there is a need for a self-help support group in the area. Such groups already exist in Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven. This group is open to anyone over the age of 18 who has been bereaved by suicide, as well as agencies such as GPs, police and health service workers.
Read MoreTHE Herald’s #notalone campaign aims to make talking about our mental health commonplace and give people the courage to say when they are suffering, without fear of judgement. Here, John Brown, whose father killed himself 26 years ago, talks about how those who are left behind are often at risk of suicide themselves.
Read MoreIn an ambition to extend and strengthen the support available to local people who have been bereaved by suicide, the steering group of Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS) Cumbria has created a new and independent organisation for our area. Suicide Bereavement Support (SBS) aims to support local people by using local resources, whilst continuing to work in partnership with national colleagues and local agencies.
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