29th February 2024

Our 2024 Sector Summit was our first ever! The exciting day of knowledge sharing and networking brought together professionals working with individuals bereaved by suicide. We hosted the event at Church House, Westminster, and it was a must-attend for anyone in the field.

Take a look at this year and previous years’ sector Summits.

2026

2025

Check out the highlights from the 2024 Sector Summit

Our first Sector Summit

The 2024 Sector Summit united over 200 professionals from the suicide prevention and mental health landscape for a day of collaborative learning. Attendees from various sectors, ranging from first responders to corporate leaders, engaged in discussions centred on personalised service delivery, data-driven decision-making, and innovation. The summit provided a platform for leaders to share their insights and successes in managing suicidal risk, emphasising that prevention is a collective effort that requires us to work together across different sectors.

2024 Agenda

Within the first theme of personalisation within service delivery we heard from speakers who are accessing and supporting communities, tailoring their approach to personal characteristics or circumstances.

Sarah Coghlan at Movember talked about Influencing Culture to Improve Access.
Our first panel discussion of the day was hosted by Michelle Stebbings from the Support After Suicide Partnership with Rachel Tegg from Child Bereavement UK, Darlington Zvionere from Black Minds Matter and Colette Scarbrough-Jelfs from Widowed and Young, talking about how they are using personalisation within their different services.
Lastly within this theme we heard from Gavin Thorpe and Ben Akers at Talk Club, who focused on Men Accessing Therapy.

Personalisation Within Service Delivery

Michelle Stebbings, SASP

Sarah Coghlan, Movember

Colette Scarbrough -Jelfs , Widowed and Young

Darlington Zvionere, Black Minds Matter

Rachel Tegg, Child Bereavement UK

Data-Driven Decision Making

Our second theme of the day was data-driven decision making, where we heard from speakers who are using data and technology to improve the efficacy and efficiency of services.

Leading UCL researcher Alexandra Pitman provided Research Updates on the Impact of Suicide Bereavement.
Following this, Jane Woodward from At a Loss talked about the importance of Appropriate Signposting.
Jake Mills, Founder of Chasing The Stigma, hosted our panel on this topic, with Alice Hendy MBE from R;pple, Oliver Harrison from Koa Health, and Peter Frost from the Met Police, who are all using data or technology in different ways to improve support.

Gavin Thorpe & Ben Akers, Talk Club

Alexander Pitman, UCL

Jane Woodward, At a Loss

Alice Hendy MBE, R;pple

Freya Liiv, SOBS

Amber Jeffrey, The Grief Gang

Francesca Bortoli, The Ben Raemers Foundation

Lourdes Colclough, Rethink Mental Illness

Mo Mansfield, Inquest

Harry Corin, Corin & Co

Oliver Harrison, K O A Health

Jake Mills, Chasing the Stigma

Peter Frost, Met Police

Innovation

In the afternoon we explored the theme of innovation, hearing from speakers who are tackling the sector issues we face in new and creative ways.

Lourdes Colclough at Rethink Mental Illness presented on Partnerships and Collaboration.
Our first Fireside Chat was between Amelia Wrighton our CEO, and Louisa Rose from Beyond, exploring the topic of Lived Experience vs Co-Creation.
Our Co-Founder and Trustee Emma Morrisroe hosted a panel on the topic of social media as a service with Amber from the Grief Gang Podcast, Francesca Bortoli from The Ben Raemers Foundation, and Freya Liiv from Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide.
Amanda Nutt from Corin & Co interviewed Danny Gray from JAAQ about the power of content in another Fireside Chat.

Louisa Rose, Beyond

Amanda Nutt, Corin & Co

Managing Suicidal Risk was the last key theme to explore on the day. We heard from speakers who will share about their experience of managing risk from early intervention to prevention and postvention.

A panel was hosted by Lily Magill from our Gold Sponsor SilverBell Global, to encourage discussions on this topic between Harry Corin from Corin & Co, Charlotte Dewar from the Independent Press Standards Organisation, Laura Maxwell-Smith from our Platinum Sponsor Salt, and Mary Hall from Samaritans Step-by-Step.
Following this we heard from Inquest's Mo Mansfield on the subject of Accountability in the Service of Prevention.
Finally, we ended with another Fireside Chat between Our CEO Amelia Wrighton and Ellen O'Donoghue from James' Place who are leading the way in this topic.