Glasgow’s Sunny Govan Radio has also invited LifeSIGNS to speak about SIAD and SI Awareness, so I’ll be on around 11:30am on Friday 29th of Feb. www.sunnygovan.org/ you can listen online from the front page, you just need iTunes or some MP3 playing software. Lincoln’s Siren FM radio have invited LifeSIGNS on to talk about […]
You know that websites are hosted on a server yeah? And you get that, when a surfer clicks on a web page, the page is sent from the server to the person’s browser, and that the ‘sending’ uses up maybe 80 – 200KB of data bandwidth? (Y’know, web pages are computer files, and files have […]
If you buy gay-interest magazines, surf gay news sites, or are part of any of the gay community websites then you’ve probably heard everything you want to hear about ‘gay rights’, ‘queer politics’ and the ‘pink pound’. Truth is, you may well be sick of being spoken down to by the older queer leaders of […]
We had a lot of fun last year, taking photos of anything and everything orange, so, if you’re a Flickr Member, please do come and join the official ‘Hunt for Orange’ Flickr Group! It’s all to raise awareness in time for Self-Injury Awareness Day, and anything Orange is welcome. Thanks to Jenny for setting the […]
LifeSIGNS SI Awareness Wristbands and fantastic Keyrings are now in our possession and we have uploaded some great pics to the website, so have a look and admire them for real here. Both wristbands and keyrings are selling well, so thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered them – we will be sending them out […]
LifeSIGNS is thrilled to offer our revised guidance to schools, colleges and universities, and we’re more than thrilled to note that there are plans to print and distribute our guidance across 200 schools in Ireland! Download your free copy of our new guidance, see our Publications page. The LifeSIGNS Voluntary Organisation is user-led, and our […]
Newham Asian Women’s Project launched their self-harm DVD ‘Everybody Hurts’ in London today, and I was thrilled to attend the launch on behalf of LifeSIGNS. Everybody Hurts has been created by NAWP after extensive consultations with young people across the UK on the syndrome of self-harm and has been financed by the Diana, Princess of […]
Last Wednesday LifeSIGNS was thrilled to be invited to Whitehall, London to attend a meeting with Ivan Lewis, the Minister for Care Services in the Department of Health. It was a positive response to the ‘Political Awareness Project’ by myself and Nick which aims to get Self-injury and ‘SI awareness’ on the political agenda. And […]
Last Wednesday LifeSIGNS was thrilled to be invited to Whitehall, London to attend a meeting with Ivan Lewis, the Minister for Care Services in the Department of Health. It was a positive response to the ‘Political Awareness Project’ by myself and Nick which aims to get Self-injury and ‘SI awareness’ on the political agenda. And […]
Following the great success of the ‘Mad for Arts’ and ‘Mad for Poetry’ series of films in 2004 and 2005, Media Trust Productions has been asked to make five more short films for Channel Five and the Community Channel. The three-minute films will be shown every evening on five and Community Channel during the week […]
Following the great success of the ‘Mad for Arts’ and ‘Mad for Poetry’ series of films in 2004 and 2005, Media Trust Productions has been asked to make five more short films for Channel Five and the Community Channel. The three-minute films will be shown every evening on five and Community Channel during the week […]
BBC 1Xtra have produced an audio documentary about self-injury called ‘Screaming Without Words’; it’s a frank discussion about the issues surrounding SI, and it may well be triggering to some people – it’s aim is to raise understanding among people who don’t know a lot about SI. The documentary features Janet from LifeSIGNS, and several […]
