World Suicide Prevention Day 2025

Content warning: This page mentions suicide.  

World Suicide Prevention Day is Wednesday 10 September. It’s a global movement focusing on raising awareness of suicide, reducing stigma, and encouraging strategies and actions to prevent suicide. 

This year’s theme of ‘Changing the narrative on suicide’, highlights the importance of starting a conversation about suicide. Our research shows that only 10% of employees would know that the best way to save the life of someone thinking of suicide is to ask them directly whether they have a plan to end their life (1).  

Everyone needs to come together to reduce suicide. We’re calling on workplaces to embed suicide awareness, prevention, and support into their mental health and wellbeing strategies. Over 75% of employees do not know if suicide prevention is currently part of their organisation’s wellbeing strategy. This must change. Suicide can be prevented through education and intervention (2). 
 

Our new workplace resource 

For me

We know that having conversations about people’s mental health and suicide prevention can be difficult. This new resource offers helpful tips to support you after having these challenging discussions. It’s important that you can stay well whilst supporting others.

Download the new resource

Our other workplace resources 

The five pillars of suicide prevention 

This resource has advice and guidance on how to tackle suicide prevention and provide support in your workplace. MHFA England®’s five pillars of suicide prevention can help you put plans in place to support those having thoughts of suicide and those impacted by suicide.  

Download our free resource

Suicide. Let’s talk  

Our poster, updated for 2025, helps raise awareness of how to support someone experiencing thoughts of suicide or behaviour. You can download the poster and put it up in your workplace.

Download the poster

Webinar 

Rewatch our webinar from World Suicide Prevention Day 2025, and learn about common myths and misconceptions, how you can ask the question about suicide, and where to signpost people for support.

Panellists:

• Vicki Cockman, Director of Training and Consultancy, MHFA England
• Julie Castleman, Director at Junah Ltd, MHFA England National Trainer
• Jeremy O’Dwyer, Lived experience speaker, MHFA England Instructor Member
• Paul Tinnion, MHFAider®, Clinical Team Lead at University Hospitals Liverpool Trust

Our offer

We have the expertise to help you: 

• Put clear, actionable plans in place to support those having thoughts of suicide and those impacted by suicide 

• Deliver training to your organisation and work with you to advise on how to embed suicide prevention into your mental health and wellbeing strategy 

• Feel empowered to start the conversation about suicide, break the stigma and provide you with avenues of support through our MHFA® training 

Strengthen suicide prevention in your workplace

Sources:  

(1) (2) The research was undertaken by One Poll for MHFA England during 29 July – 5 August 2024 with a nationally representative sample of 2,000 working UK adults.