In March 2023 5asideCHESS were invited by Lemuel Laroche, Tedx speaker of ‘The Power of a Single Hour’ (watch it if you haven’t already) and founder of Chess & Community to attend the 10th annual conference in Athens, Georgia. We have been following the journey of Chess & Community for some time and were keen …
Sunshine today which is welcome as it has been in short supply over the last few days.We parked the Battling Suicide Bus up on the seafront in Paignton and enjoyed the gorgeous view. Simon and his wife Bridget made a special trip down to see us and she had a go at playing chess for …
Today the Battling Suicide Bus was in Plymouth. We had debated whether it was appropriate to go so soon after the recent shootings and subsequent suicide and yet people seemed genuinely appreciative that we had done so. We had so many encounters that it’s hard to know where to begin. The day started with Graham …
Today we spent much of the day in Bideford’s Morrison’s car park courtesy of community champion Claire. We have found after visiting universities, police headquarters, work places etc. that the best place to get real engagement is in a supermarket car park. Linzi and Marie who we met on Saturday came down to see us …
Today we met Jenny in Lidl car park. Jenny very bravely shared with us a photo of her daughter, Tamsin Rose, who took her own life a couple of years ago. You can’t look at the photo and not think that Tamsin Rose had everything to live for – she was beautiful, she had a …
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Day 1 of the Battling Suicide Bus South West tour started with some powerful encounters with the people of Watchet in Somerset. Thank you for being brave enough and curious enough to come over to talk and share your stories. From homelessness to lack of purpose and activities for youngsters, miss-spent public money, demonisation of …
On November 19th and 20th I spent time on the 5asideCHESS Battling Suicide Bus at a food and drink expo in ExCel. Here’s my story: The bus functions as a moving memorial to loved ones struggling with poor mental health or lost to suicide but some of the messages were fading so my first job …
Sponsored by kitchen cleaning company, Bright Hygiene, the 5asideCHESS Battling Suicide Bus made its first visit to the hospitality industry at the Restaurant & Takeaway Innovation Expo at Excel London on November 19th and 20th. It is very clear that the hospitality industry need to take action on their employee’s mental health and well-being. Research …
The first school on our 5asideCHESS tour was Kamwala Primary. It has a large chess club with over 50 students but when I asked the teacher in charge how many boards they had she surprised me by answering none. They had being using pieces and boards from different games and making their own chess sets! …
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5asideCHESS at Independence Day by Alex Waldron Zambia got it’s independence from Britain only 55 years ago, so as a British person at their celebrations I felt like a bit of an unwanted outsider. However undeterred, I got out one of the 5asideCHESS sets and suddenly some of the children started to watch me set …
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