End of year reflections

As we approach the end of 2025, we’ve been reflecting on a busy and productive year and would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your continued support.

We know that talking about suicide can help save lives and our aim is to improve suicide awareness and increase confidence in talking about suicide so more people can recognise the role we can all play in suicide prevention.

All together, our training courses have now been taken an incredible 2,982,434 times.

We continue to receive powerful feedback about their value and impact, reminding us how vital these conversations are.

Feedback and impact at a glance

Our main Suicide Awareness Training has been taken over 157,000 times since its relaunch in September last year.

Our Social Isolation and Loneliness Training launched in May during Mental Health Awareness Week and has been taken more than 2,000 times, with feedback sharing:

Our Healthcare Staff and Suicide Awareness Training launched in September and has been taken 1,400 times. with feedback sharing:

We marked World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September with three online training sessions attended by 1,500 people and joined by our wonderful panel members which included:

• Allison Furlong from Alfies Squad
• Neil Boardman from the Cheshire and Merseyside Public Health Collaborative
• Dr Claire Iveson from ZSA and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Ste Messenger from ZSA and Mersey Care

Feedback was extremely positive, with one person sharing...

Monthly training figures 

Our monthly training figures at a glance...

*Figures up to 16 December 2025

Looking ahead to 2026

The team is currently developing three new fully funded training courses which will launch in the coming months:

• Supporting a stranger – suicide awareness training
• LGBTQ+ and suicide awareness training
• Older adults and suicide awareness training

Planning for the future 

Changes in how the ZSA is funded has meant that we've been looking at how we can ensure the financial sustainability of the ZSA, and as part of this we're introducing...

ZSA e-learning package

In January, we will launch our new e-learning package which will enable organisations to purchase license agreements to host our training on their learning management systems (LMS). Particularly for those organisations looking to align and pledge to the new BSI standards around suicide and the workplace.

If you’re interested in receiving a quote to host our training on your LMS, complete our expression of interest form.

Virtual training sessions 

We will also be sharing more about opportunities to commission us to deliver virtual training to your business or community group.

If you’re interested in receiving information about this, please complete this form.

Corporate sponsorship

To maintain our training offer in the future, we like many other charitable initiatives, are seeking corporate sponsorship. Corporate sponsorship will directly support the rollout of these new courses and help us reach more communities.

If your organisation is interested in exploring sponsorship opportunities, we’d love to hear from you: sponsor@zerosuicidealliance.nhs.uk