Ellie Palma-Cass, founder of Epic Hope CIC. The mental health and suicide prevention organisation have launched their 'Hope in an Envelope' campaign, where members of the public can write a message of hope, kind words, poem or a letter for someone who might need to read words of hope and positivity and drop in the special purple post boxes located at the Grand Arcade, outside Rebuild with Hope store, upper floor of The Grand Arcade. There are also purple postboxes in Leigh Market, Ashton Library, Standish Library and Shevington Library. The campaign will run up to World Suicide Prevention Day and The Wigan and Leigh Month of Hope.
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00:00Hello, I'm Ellie from Epic Hope. We're a suicide prevention organisation based in Wigan.
00:06We're coming up to Suicide Prevention Day 2024 on the 10th of September and the theme is Change
00:14the Narrative, Start a Conversation. So we thought it would be nice to start a conversation by post.
00:20We're inviting everybody in the Wigan and Leigh areas to write a message of hope and
00:26encouragement to a stranger. We're asking people to do this by writing a message, posting it in
00:32one of our purple post boxes in the Grand Arcade or in Leigh Market and around the borough in
00:38various libraries and to give hope to somebody in our region. So what does hope mean to you?
00:45Well whatever you feel could be hopeful to lift up someone, to brighten the day or to give them
00:50that strength to hang on for one more day. It could be a poem, it could be a little note or it could
00:57be a letter with some really kind powerful words of hope. On the 8th of September we'll be holding
01:05the Wigan Walk for Hope. It's our second annual Walk for Hope which is a walk to support everybody
01:12in the region who has lost somebody to suicide. There are a great many people joining us on this
01:19walk and we give out hope bags and we're hoping that to be able to fill these hope bags
01:24not only with some goodies but also with these letters of hope.