Let’s use Social Media to help not hinder each other. The Battling Suicide Tour has come to an end after 40 towns and cities, and more than 65 days on the road! Let’s keep the conversation going. Please Join our Closed Facebook Group today, so we can talk openly about Mental Health, Suicide […]
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! We met Matt Panesh at the Edinburgh Fringe. “Come to Morecombe on your way down.” So we did. The Morecambe Fringe is Matt’s baby. He’s coddled it up into his Alt Space shop on Yorkshire road. “We are just planting the acorns,” he
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Glasgow is extra strong Ribena. We only spent one day there but met a concentration of people from all walks of life. Divya and her little dog harris spent a good amount of the day with us. She turned into a 5asidechess team member pretty quickly, inviting people to chat, connect and have a cup
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Words By: Hope Virgo Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Hope Virgo is the Author of Stand Tall Little Girl and a leading advocate for people with eating disorders. Described by Richard Mitchell, CEO of Sherwood Forest Hospital as “sharing a very powerful story with a huge impact”. Hope helps employers including
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! Time chides when you’re living in a slum, and Hannah’s upbringing has been a slow one. She is telling me her story in a city in the middle of England. It’s been hot for weeks. The grass on the side of the roads
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The 5asideCHESS team set out on the Battling Suicide Tour on July 19th, raising awareness of suicide prevention and promoting good mental health. All through building connections and chatting. And after two weeks are happy to confirm a residency at the: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the GrassMarket from August 6th to the 31st Close to
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On Saturday we cracked on with the first ever 5asideCHESS ‘takeover’ of the Urban Food Fest in Shoreditch, London. The idea of ‘Connection’ is already pretty strong at this brilliant event, and next time we want even more people to come along and help us fight loneliness and social isolation. We are also, like, really
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There’s a man dressed in lilac, dolled up in violet, under a plastic purple tree, shuffling along the grey concrete of Moscow. He is a shaded tulip among the dead stone apartments that crawl, grey-legged, into the Russian sky. Even the rotting metal balconies can’t take my eyes off him as he grimaces, dragging a
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Social Isolation and loneliness are pretty much unbounded. That is to say they have no bounds. That is to say people everywhere are affected by it. That is to say there is no fixed abode to the work we do at 5asideCHESS. So last week we went on a little tour of the North, playing
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What is 5asideCHESS? Do you need 5 players? No, wait, you need 10 players, right? Hold on, is this something to do with football? Thankyou generic person in generic cafe, they are all great questions, but sadly you are generically wrong on all generic accounts. The questions are valid, though, so let me explain what
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