H.E.L.P
Yesterday we had some very exciting visitors from Sunderland who came down to meet Sarah and Zoë from the Junction49 team to present to us a fantastic project that they've recently been working on. The group of young people from Pallion Action Group, a fantastic community organisation based in Sunderland, have been volunteering on the 24/24 programme funded by vinspired and came to show us the fabulous website that they've created, H.E.L.P (The Helping, Educating and Lifeline Project). H.E.L.P features personal stories from each member of the group talking about things that have affected them personally from depression, to suicide, to alcoholism. Each story comes with a page with links to organisations and services locally that people can get in touch with, if they've been affected by something similar.
They're looking to expand the website and have already had a lot of interest from other young people who would like to share their own personal stories. We'd definitely recommend you checking out the site, no matter whether you live in Sunderland or elsewhere in the UK. If you're inspired by what you see and would like to set up something similar in your local area then you should definitely get in touch. They're really keen to spread the work about H.E.L.P and to offer support to others who want to do the same. We're going to be supporting them through Junction49 to receive funding so they can take the project further and hopefully get some similar websites set up across the UK.
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