HOPE Newsletter

HOPE Monthly Newsletter

In today's newsletter:

HOPE Noticeboard
HOPE Feedback Questionnaire
HOPE Group Meetings
Support
Easyfundraising
West Norfolk Wins

HOPE NOTICEBOARD

To our newly bereaved survivors, we warmly welcome you to HOPE.

We understand that this newsletter may feel like an information overload at this stage of your journey, so you may wish to scroll down to the Group Meetings and Support sections for now. If you have any questions or need some support at the moment, you are always welcome to reach out to us.

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NEW: Monthly Support Group in Norwich

Our new group in Norwich started earlier this month, and it is lovely to see the beginning of a new HOPE community forming there. Many thanks to the survivors who joined, and to our wonderful group facilitators.

If you're local to the Norwich area, please feel free to come along to our next session, which will take place on the 18th November from 6.30-8pm, in the Jarrold Room at YMCA Norfolk (NR3 2HF).

HOPE Feedback Questionnaire

We recently had our HOPE Strategy Day for 2025 with the staff and trustees at HOPE. One of the outcomes of this meeting was around giving more opportunities for feedback to our survivors, to continue making sure our services are shaped and led by survivors themselves as much as possible.

As such, we have created a simple online form to give space to you to share your feedback with us, things that have been helpful and useful from our services, as well as space for anything you think we could be doing differently.

We will be sharing this feedback form at points throughout the year moving forwards, and one of those points is now! Your answers will come through to us anonymously, and they will be used to consider ways in which we can improve our services. We may also use some of the information from your answers to illustrate the impact of our services, such as on marketing materials or when writing applications for grant funding. Please bear this in mind when you complete the form - we won't include any personal information if shared, so may adapt your answer to remove personal information if shared.

Here is the link to the form. Many thanks in advance for taking the time to provide your feedback - it is greatly appreciated and we consider this information to be very valuable in shaping HOPE.

HOPE GROUP MEETING DATES

Don't forget you can see the dates of all our monthly meetings in 2025 on our website: hopeaftersuicideloss.org.uk/group-meetings/

Do come along if you can - as ever, you'll be assured of a warm welcome. You are welcome to join or re-join our groups whenever you want to.

We know it can feel a bit nerve-wracking joining a new group for the first time, so if you'd like to be connected to your local group facilitator beforehand, let Ruby know. Ruby will also give you the addresses of all the groups for your reference: office@hopeaftersuicideloss.org.uk

The next meetings to take place are:

Lowestoft: 4th November
Bury St Edmunds: 12th November
Ipswich: 19th November
Harleston: 10th November
King's Lynn: 5th November
Norwich: 18th November

SUPPORT

If you, or anyone you know, is in need of support from HOPE, please get in touch or feel free to share our contact details. We offer peer-to-peer monthly group meetings, one-to-one bereavement support (phone or video call), and a limited amount of counselling support from trained professionals.

Ruby Farrell - HOPE Charity Coordinator

Mobile: 07548 315080

Email: office@hopeaftersuicideloss.org.uk

A Big Thank You

We are so grateful for the support we receive from survivors, fundraisers, grants and friends of HOPE.

We have been very kindly supported in recent months from the following people and organisations:

The Alms Committee at Norwich Cathedral
A generous donation dedicated to the memory of Peter James Haylock, arranged by his sister Mrs Gillian Davidson
Virgin Wines

Supported by Suffolk Community Foundation through:

East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund
Ellison’s Grantmaking Programme
Miller Trust Grantmaking Award
Suffolk Giving Grantmaking Programme
Beckett Health & Wellbeing Grantmaking Programme

Supported by Norfolk Community Foundation through:

East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund
The Paul Bassham Community First Revenue Fund

We are also thankful to be supported by: Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Small Grants Team, The Geoffrey Watling Charity, The Rope Trust; Jephcott Charitable Trust; West Suffolk Community Chest; Belstead Ganzoni Charitable Settlement, Greater Gabbard Community Fund provided by SSE Renewables.

EASYFUNDRAISING

Thank you to everyone raising donations for Hope After Suicide Loss with #easyfundraising!

Not joined yet? Sign up to easyfundraising and when you shop online with your favourite brands, they’ll donate to us. It's free and your shopping won't cost you any extra - the brands you shop with will donate, not you!

How does it work?

Simply create an account with Easyfundraising, and choose Hope After Suicide Loss as the cause you want to support. After this, if you are on your browser using your laptop or PC, you click the button which says 'Donation Reminder' - this adds an extension to whatever browser you are using, which will remind you to use Easyfundraising whenever you are making an eligible purchase online. It is safe, secure, and won't slow your browser down. There is also an Easyfundraising app you can download onto your smart device (phone, iPad, etc.) which will help you to include a donation from your retailer to HOPE when you are making an eligible purchase.

It is a wonderful idea for a donation platform, at no extra cost to you. If you have any questions about getting set up, Ruby would be happy to talk you through the process:

office@hopeaftersuicideloss.org.uk

WEST NORFOLK WINS

Don't forget that West Norfolk Wins is an exciting new weekly lottery which raises money for good causes - and HOPE is one of the good causes you can choose. Choose HOPE as your good cause, and for every ticket you buy, you'll get the chance to win this marvellous prize while 60p of your ticket cost comes to us. More information at: www.westnorfolkwins.co.uk

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