29th February 2024

In 2024 we hosted our first ever Sector Summit, for an exciting day of knowledge sharing and networking at Church House, Westminster at Suicide&Co's first Sector Summit, a must-attend event for professionals working with individuals bereaved by suicide.

A day of knowledge sharing and networking for professionals working with people bereaved by suicide.


Throughout the day we heard from a variety of speakers, providing expertise within their areas across our four main themes, which you can see below.

Our 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.

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.

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.  

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.

Check Out the Highlights from our 2024 Sector Summit

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