Cycle Against Suicide – ‘Win a Shed’ Raffle

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Cycle Against Suicide is a mental health awareness and suicide prevention charity (CHY20867) providing schools, students, parents, workplaces and communities with the tools and techniques to address mental health with confidence and, ultimately, create a culture of help-seeking behaviour, encouraging active listening, shared discussions, and positive coping methods.

Our Mental Health Training Programmes:

Communities: Free online training in community-led mental health peer-support
Workplaces: Free online/inhouse training in mental health peer-support within the workplace
Schools: Headstrong Programme for secondary schools, Mind-Me-Mind-You
Programme for primary schools
Parents: HELP (Health Educators Leading Parents) Programme
Webinars: on various topics for teachers and parents alike such as ‘Understanding Neurodiversity’ and ‘School Refusal’

Alongside our mental health training programmes, we also run mental health awareness events such as cycling events, static spin events, and mental health awareness stands across the country, allowing us to reach out to and communicate with all Ireland’s communities, both urban and rural.

We are now looking to meet and chat about mental health with people living and working in Ireland’s farming community. The mental health statistics within the farming community are concerning, and they remind us why this work is so important. Research undertaken by a team at UCD in 2022, revealed that 23.4% of farmers were considered at risk for suicide, with 55.5% of respondents experiencing moderate to extremely severe depression. Male farmers accounted for 8% (144) of all male probable suicides in Ireland between 2015-2018. According to the research, the average annual probable suicide incidence rate for male farmers was 31.5 deaths per 100,000, remaining statistically in line with the average rate, already high, for all men. Moreover, the researchers found that the probable suicide incidence rate for farmers over 65 years of age (29.2 deaths per 100,000) was over twice the rate for non-farmers (14.3 deaths per 100,000).

Our work has already opened opportunities to start a mental health conversation within our farming and rural communities and highlighted just how much the mental health conversation needs to be made reach these communities, where support can be harder to access and the challenges are often unique. We feel we must make the time to engage more meaningfully with farmers and their families, ensuring they have access to vital mental health information, training, and supports.

To help us in this endeavour, we have been generously donated a farm shed worth €23,500 (details below) as the big prize in our raffle which we are looking to promote around the country.

Your support, whether by sharing raffle details with your members and on social media, displaying a poster, or mentioning it among your communities, would help raise funds for our work in mental health awareness, reducing stigma, and developing mental health training programmes.

Thank you for taking the time to read this – your support would mean a great deal to us and to the families and communities we serve.

Cycle Against Suicide Raffle – Win a Shed Worth Over €23,500! 🏡

Support mental health and be in with a chance to win a stunning shed valued at over €23,500 in our Cycle Against Suicide charity raffle!

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