TGAW Winter Fayre

Yes! It's finally (or not?) this time of the year! Christmas is coming up and as always the TGAW SAS Winter Fate has happend on the 25th of November. For the unfamiliar the fate raises money for charity, this year we selected Papyrus MS Society and Variety, and the fate includes a mix of SAS group stalls, college stalls and standard school stalls.

 

Papyrus claims: "Suicide is the biggest killer of young people – male and female – under 35 in the UK 2015, 1,659 young people took their own lives. That equates to over four per day. Every year many thousands more attempt or contemplate suicide, harm themselves or suffer alone, afraid to speak openly about how they are feeling." and they aim to prevent suicide via their help line and web chat. They have put together this video to explain what they do:

The MS Society claims they are a "a community of people living with MS, scientists, campaigners, volunteers and fundraisers." and they aim to provide money and support to people affected by Multiple Sclerosis. They have put together this video outlying their plans for the MS Society:

Variety states on there What we do page: "All over the UK there are children who have to cope with sickness, disability or disadvantage. It’s tough. Really tough. We provide practical, tangible help that makes an immediate difference to those children and their families." So they send children in less fortunate circumstances on days out across the UK again here is another advertisement video created by variety:

Just remember if you are feeling sucidal you can:

Contact Papyrus' Hopeline UK:

• Call: 0800 068 41 41

• Email: pat@papyrus-uk.org

• SMS: 07786 209697

Use Kooth, an free online chat room with experts: https://kooth.com/

Or talk to one of our learning mentors in the wellbeing drop in sessions at lunch and break.

Remember don't be afraid to tell people.