Keep Calm and Love Life

2. In the UK alone, over 2,000 young
people take their own lives every
year.
Some of them are students.

3. We cannot stop suicide from occurring; it has
always been part of our society.
But there is sufficient evidence that prevention
and intervention can go a long way in helping
somebody STOP from making the decision to
take that irreversible final step.

4.  Students often feel afraid to tell anybody about their
suicidal feelings for fear of being told they are being over-
dramatic or because they are scared they will be forced to
relinquish control and placed under monitoring conditions
to stop them from harming themselves.
WE NEED TO…
TACKLE THIS ISSUE ACROSS UNIVERSITY
CAMPUSES IN A STUDENT-FRIENDLY WAY.

5. AIMS: 1)To initiate self-worth and higher levels of self-
esteem we want to ask students to think of the reasons
why they are here and what benefits they bring to this
world that nobody else can.
1) What do you get
Keep it
out of bed for? Is it
student-
having lunch with
friendly; ask
your friends, going
questions
out at night, your
like:
course, your career
aspirations?
ASK students what they do that makes them
important to other people; ask them for specific
examples: eg ‘I always make my friend Kate laugh
again when she falls out with her boyfriend.

6. Record students answers to
these questions on camera,
on ‘keep calm and love life’
notepaper, post and
photograph notepaper
around campuses, post to
facebook and twitter…
EVERYTHING TO BE UPLOADED TO ‘KEEP
CALM AND LOVE LIFE’ WEBSITE.

7. ENCOURAGE A MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONAL FROM EACH UNIVERSITY
TO COME IN AND TALK TO STUDENTS
ABOUT HOW THEY COULD SUPPORT
SOMEBODY WHO IS SUICIDAL: CHANCE TO
DISCUSS SUICIDE AND ITS IMPACT ON
OTHERS
ENCOURAGE VOLUNTEERS TO WRITE TO THEIR
STUDENT NEWSPAPER AND LOCAL NEWSPAPER
ABOUT WHEN THE PROJECT IS RUNNING AND
COLLECT STATISITICS ABOUT SUICIDE AT THEIR
UNIVERSITY

8. INGREDIENTS:
•7 VOLUNTEERS
•A CAMCORDER/SOMETHING TO
RECORD VIDEO RESPONSES WITH
•T-SHIRTS PRINTED (we will email you
the design and send you some money)
•KEEP CALM AND LOVE LIFE
NOTEPAPER. (posted to you)
•PENS
•POSTERS (we will email you a design).
•LOTS OF ENERGY AND
ENTHUSIAM!!!!!!!

9. THINGS TO START WITH
1. LOOK THROUGH THE PROJECT BRIEF.
2. GET A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS TOGETHER.
3. HAVE A CHAT.
4. FIND SOMEWHERE THAT PRINTS T-SHIRTS.
5. FIND SOMEWHERE TO PRINT POSTERS.
6. ASK YOUR UNION AND WELFARE OFFICER IF
THERE IS ANY MONEY AVAILABLE TO LAUNCH
THIS CAMPAIGN (we can ask them afterwards if
they seem hesitant. )
7. PLAN A WEEK TO DO IT.