Community Engagement Programme

At STORM® we believe that no one should profit from another person’s distress.

Surplus income generated from our training packages is reinvested into the community through our Community Engagement Programme.

This includes: free conferences and seminars; small grants to support grassroots suicide prevention and related work; and subsidised and pro-bono training.

About our Community Engagement Programme

At STORM®, we believe that no one should profit from another person’s distress. We are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that reinvests our surplus income into expanding our social impact. 

We do this through our Community Engagement Programme where we collaborate with, contribute to, and create opportunities for communities to improve awareness, attitudes and knowledge to prevent suicide.

Our Community Engagement Mission

To raise awareness of suicide and promote emotional, mental and physical health.

Our Community Engagement activities

Our community Engagement activities include:

Free conferences and seminars

Through our Community Engagement programme we offer a number of free-to-attend events for frontline staff. The events focus on particular themes and current issues related to suicide and self-harm.
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Subsidised and pro-bono opportunities

We want to make sure that the benefits of STORM® are accessible to as many organisations and groups as possible. We can offer eligible not-for-profit groups, social enterprises and charities subsidised or pro bono training sessions or workshops.
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Reaching out... Programme

Our Reaching out… Programme aims to help grassroots charities and groups to reach out to those who are at risk of suicide, self-harm and/or mental illness to raise awareness and/or provide help and support.
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#HeyAreYouOK? social change campaign

Our #HeyAreYouOK? social change campaign aims to change attitudes and culture towards emotional and mental health.
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Feedback from our Community Engagement activities:

Our recent Community Engagement activities

Some of our recent Community Engagement activities include:

Reaching Out...

Reaching Out… NSPA Conference Tickets

As part of STORM®’s Community Engagement Programme – Reaching Out… activities, we made a donation to the NSPA to allow some delegates with lived experience or limited funds to attend their suicide prevention conference – ‘Suicide prevention: from community to clinician’.​

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Conferences & Seminars

Suicide by children and young people conference

On the 8th October, STORM® held a free community engagement event in collaboration with the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH).

The event was aimed at practitioners working with children and young people, those in management and policy positions, and commissioning services.

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World Suicide Prevention Day

World Suicide Prevention Day 2019

On World Suicide Prevention Day 2019, the STORM® Team held events that brought the members of the Manchester community together to raise awareness about Suicide Prevention. We partnered with old friends Waterside Gym and new friends St James & Emmanuel Church and volunteers from the Lizzie Lowe Legacy.

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Storm News

Greater Manchester Suicide Bereavement Conference

Suicide remains the lead cause of death in Greater Manchester for people aged 15-29 the impact of losing some one to suicide can be felt by many people across a community. For this reason, STORM®Skills Training CIC in collaboration with Six Degrees CIC, members of the GM Bereavement Network, including Wendy Cordwell of Bereavement Care Services, co-ordinated a Greater Manchester Suicide Bereavement conference.

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Subsidised and pro bono opportunities

We want to make sure that the benefits of STORM® are accessible to as many organisations and groups as possible. As such, we can offer eligible not-for-profit groups, social enterprises and charities either subsidised or pro bono training sessions, or educational workshops.

Please get in touch if you would like to know more.

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