William Helps To Launch Male Suicide Prevention Program

The Duke of Cambridge today helped to launch a new coalition between emergency services and the transport industry to help prevent male suicide in the UK.

He met with workers and volunteers from several organisations – including National Rail, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and British Transport Police – during a roundtable discussion arranged by CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) at the London headquarters of Unilever, where they discussed what can be done to reduce male suicide.

During the discussion, William himself spoke of his own experience with male suicide through his work with the East Anglian Air Ambulance and how it opened his eyes to how large the issue is: “In some of my charity work I have come across issues like this before and, coupled with my air ambulance work where my first job was a male suicide, I realised starkly how big a problem we have in this country.”

Prince William then went on to pay a visit to the RNLI Tower Lifeboat Station, whose crew count among their tasks pulling men and women attempting suicide from the River Thames. He heard how over the past 24hrs alone, the team had been called out to three male suicide attempts on the river.

The Duke will launch the Heads Together campaign with the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

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