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Three Dads Walking want to save suicide prevention helpline

Since 2021, Owen, Andy Airey from Cumbria, and Mike Palmer from Greater Manchester, have taken on four epic walks for HopeLine 24/7, which helped it extend to a round-the-clock service.

They said its closure should be a wake-up call to the government that suicide prevention was not an “optional extra – it is a public health responsibility”.

“We were only last week talking about what our next challenge was before we had the terrible news on Monday night,” Owen told BBC Look East.

“In the near future, we’re definitely channelling our energy into asking ‘if we’ve lost HopeLine 24/7 and there’s no support, no dedicated suicide prevention support for our young people across the UK, who’s going to provide that’?

“That service could be taken and picked up by another service – it wouldn’t take that much.

“As a society, we’ve let that support service disappear, and it was a unique service for young people.”

The loss of Papyrus, he added, highlighted the fragility of the charity sector.


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