Trader Media Group
Steering young people towards
better emotional health
Welcome to
the Trader Media Group and Samaritans webpage. Samaritans is
delighted to have been chosen as Trader Media Group’s charity
partner and we are really excited about the opportunities this
partnership presents.
We hope you find this webpage a useful source
of information and ideas to help you support the partnership and
raise vital funds for Samaritans 24/7 emotional support
service. Suki Dale from Samaritans (s.dale@samaritans.org) and
Michele Madden from Trader Media Group (Michele.Madden@TraderMedia.co.uk)
are your main points of contact so please feel free to drop us a
line with any questions or suggestions.
Samaritans - Trader Media Group’s Charity of the
Year
Samaritans’ exciting partnership with Trader
Media Group was launched in July 2006. So far, Trader Media Group
has succeeded in raising £50,000.
Employee fundraising alone has raised over
£20,000 supported by matched funding from Trader Media
Group.
Samaritans are very grateful to TMG for a further £20,000 to help
us develop Emotional Health Communications aimed at steering young
people towards better wellbeing. Staff at TMG came up
with the winning design for the communication which will be
launched in June 2009.
Jane Cann raises £2,000 for Samaritans at the London
Marathon
Congratulations to Dealer Engineer
Supervisor Jane Cann (left), who raised
a staggering £2,000 for Samaritans at this year's Flora
London marathon.
Trader Media Group:
Supporting
Samaritans
Fundraising
Ideas
Volunteering Opportunities
“We are very excited about this partnership
with Samaritans, and we hope that it will allow the charity to help
more people.” - John King, CEO of Trader Media Group
One of the key goals of the partnership is to
help Samaritans reach more young people, particularly young men
vulnerable to suicide and self harm.
- Today, 4 young men will take their own life.
- Every hour, 2 young people self-harm.
- There is a stigma amongst young people about asking for
help.
With the help of Trader Media Group,
Samaritans can offer emotional support to many more young people,
helping them to develop skills to deal with difficult times and
increase awareness of Samaritans service to those at
risk.
"Happier days are ahead and I feel like I can
face anything now after coming through that time of my life”
email user feedback
“The text service has been my saviour.
Sometimes a feel that if i hadnt been in touch wth Samaritans i may
have killed myself”
text user feedback