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If you have been affected by suicide, please join us at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, on Saturday, September 12th 2026 at 2pm for ‘Time Together’ to mark ‘World Suicide Prevention Day’.

It’s the beginning of a new chapter for Olly’s Future. After founding the charity in memory of her son, Ann Feloy is handing over the reins to James Davies – the charity’s new CEO.

Our next online Talking about Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS:10) Open Session on Tuesday 21st July is part of the OVOH Schools Conference Summer Education Programme of dedicated suicide prevention training for educators.

We are offering free online TAS:10 suicide prevention training for Rugby Clubs and Football Clubs in West Sussex on Tuesday 21st July 2026 – 6.30 to 8pm

We’re so pleased to announce that Danilo Paganelli is the winner of The Oliver Hare Altruism Award at the UCL Students’ Union Awards 2026. Danilo was also last year’s winner!

Rory Keddie is one of Olly’s Future founding trustees. Rory’s Churchill Fellowship research on suicide prevention training for medical students in India, US and Canada, has been included in a new Churchill Fellowship suicide prevention report.

We are delighted to announce that Oliver Brelsford is this year’s winner of The Oliver Hare Cup. This award is presented annually to the ‘Band Musician of the Year’ at Christ’s Hospital School in West Sussex, which Oliver attended.

Ann addressed National Suicide & Crisis Prevention Conference delegates about the vital work we do in training medical and healthcare students, and medical professionals, in talking to their patients and peers about suicide.

Talking about Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS:10) is a CPD-certified, 90-minute training session designed to give you ten practical tools and the confidence to have a life-saving conversation.

Ann met child welfare campaigner Dame Floella Benjamin when she spoke at the Royal College of Nursing education conference at Exeter University.

We are recruiting a Chief Executive Officer to lead Olly’s Future as we continue our work to prevent young lives being lost to suicide. Could you be our next CEO?

When Nigel Linacre’s son George died by suicide, he started writing about his son and grief. He and jazz pianist Vladimir Miller wrote The Grief Opera.

We’ll be delivering our Talking about Suicide: 10 Tools (TAS:10) training to Worthing Rugby Club players and their families on 23rd March. 

Anyone can learn to talk about suicide, and workplaces and organisations are seeing the benefits of providing suicide awareness and prevention training for their teams.

Future doctors at UCL Medical School are learning suicide prevention tools and self-care and resilience techniques by attending our Dr SAMS (Suicide Awareness in Medical Students) programme, thanks to funding from the Fishmongers Livery Company.