Meeting day: 2nd Thursday of the Month
St Helens Supporters of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBs) Group
St Helens is a town in Merseyside, though really Lancashire, and is most famous for Glass, Mining, Rugby League & Beecham’s Pills.
The group was formed around 2010, presently, Anne, Kim & Derek are the group facilitators. We meet in a town centre venue 7:00pm – 9:00pm on the 2nd Thursday of the month. We have a wide geographical coverage and members from Warrington, Halton, Leigh, Wigan & beyond attend. Everyone is welcome. Members can also keep in touch via the Group Facebook Page (Restricted to Members Access Only)
The group receives wonderful support from the local Council, NHS Healthy Living Team and have tie ins with other local support organisations, often being present at local Health & Wellbeing events.. Along with Amparo, St Helen’s Council & the Healthy Living Team, we host a very successful ‘Suicide Memorial Service’ annually.
Contact the Group
Telephone: 07580 358 312
Email: sthelens@uksobs.org
Since losing our son Jonathan to suicide in May 2011, we have done quite a lot of fundraising. We have held boot sales, stalls at fetes, skydives and many, many raffles.
In 2005 we tragically lost Fee – beloved wife and mother, when she took her own life. The shock and loss was enormous and it wasn’t until 2009 when we discovered Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide. This charity has helped all three of us, in different ways, in coming to terms with such a painful loss. It is a loss that you never get over, but their involvement in our lives has helped us to move on but not forget.