Earlier this month, on Wednesday 16 April 2025, Suicide Prevention Scotland launched a new National Suicide Prevention Website (suicideprevention.scot) and Public Awareness Campaign. Aiming to raise awareness of services and support organisations, Suicide Prevention Scotland are advising local and national support organisations and service providers to be prepared as this launch may lead to increases in help seeking and presentations from the public due to this raise in awareness.
The Public Awareness Campaign is entirely co-produced by people with lived and living experience of suicide, professional and practice experience, and academic insight, and features the voices of four people with lived and living experience of suicide, each of whom share their own deeply personal experiences. The main theme of the campaign is to normalise the idea of having a conversation about suicide and to give people the confidence to ask directly about suicide.
Meanwhile, the new National Suicide Prevention Website (suicideprevention.scot) will provide information and key links to a range of centralised resources to support people experiencing thoughts of suicide, those who are worried for someone else, or for those who have been bereaved by suicide. In the coming weeks, a further section for professionals will be launched as part of the next phase of the website’s development.
As well as the webpage, Suicide Prevention Scotland will launch new social media channels on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn with the aim to further increase visibility and action on suicide prevention.
If you are having thoughts of suicide, please reach out for help, speak to someone you trust or call one of the below helplines:
- Samaritans — 116 123 or use the online chat at samaritans.org
- Breathing Space — 0800 83 85 87
- NHS 24 mental health hub — 111
- PAPYRUS HOPELINE247 – 0800 068 4141 or text 88247
If you are ever in immediate danger or have the means to cause yourself harm you should dial 999 and request an ambulance.
