Official page for Not The Void UK
@notthevoiduk.bsky.social
A confidential, compassionate, non clinical peer support group where adults in the UK and Europe can speak freely about suicide. NOT a pro suicide, method swapping group. Account run by group facilitators.
https://www.notthevoid.uk/
https://www.notthevoid.uk/
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Not The Void UK is a community of people across the UK and Europe. We meet for fortnightly Sunday meetings to have frank, compassionate, non clinical and confidential conversations about our relationship to suicide.
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Thank you to Lana for doing some research that delineates what people who feel suicidal use the internet for and why they use it. At NTV, facilitators work to give people a great degree of control over how they participate and we talk about helpful vs harmful material quite a bit. /1
You can also hear Lana talk about the key findings of her study here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdZ8...
Suicide and the Internet: What UK Mental Health Patients Are Searching For
Lana Bojanić, a researcher from the University of Manchester, discusses her team's latest study on how suicidal mental health patients in the UK use the internet. The research explores the dual…
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December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Thank you to Lana for doing some research that delineates what people who feel suicidal use the internet for and why they use it. At NTV, facilitators work to give people a great degree of control over how they participate and we talk about helpful vs harmful material quite a bit. /1
Sunday 14th, 3pm GMT, Not the Void UK will be meeting to share peer support around suicidal experiences. We offer a confidential, non clinical, compassionate space where you can speak your truth, at your pace, with people who will listen to understand. /1
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Sunday 14th, 3pm GMT, Not the Void UK will be meeting to share peer support around suicidal experiences. We offer a confidential, non clinical, compassionate space where you can speak your truth, at your pace, with people who will listen to understand. /1
As I'm setting up my laptop for todays meeting, I spot this parody 'MHBWT' box made my a dear mad friend who is fighting the system to make changes. It sits on a shelf and reminds me of everyone who has been dismissed or fobbed off when they reached out in a suicidal crisis. /1
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As I'm setting up my laptop for todays meeting, I spot this parody 'MHBWT' box made my a dear mad friend who is fighting the system to make changes. It sits on a shelf and reminds me of everyone who has been dismissed or fobbed off when they reached out in a suicidal crisis. /1
It's a cold, wet Friday and I'm checking in with ny co facilitator for Sundays meeting. We connect ahead of time to ask how we are doing and how we can support each other to hold space for Not the Voiders on Sunday. We will mirror this in Sundays meeting /1
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's a cold, wet Friday and I'm checking in with ny co facilitator for Sundays meeting. We connect ahead of time to ask how we are doing and how we can support each other to hold space for Not the Voiders on Sunday. We will mirror this in Sundays meeting /1
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poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
March 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️🔥🏳️⚧️
Thank you to everybody who recommends Not the Void UK to people in their life, it's really nice to open our inbox and see that people have found us. I love that as a group, we can offer mutual peer support, solidarity and celebrate all the ways we are staying alive.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thank you to everybody who recommends Not the Void UK to people in their life, it's really nice to open our inbox and see that people have found us. I love that as a group, we can offer mutual peer support, solidarity and celebrate all the ways we are staying alive.
It needs repeating given the state of transphobia in the UK but Not the Void UL supports everyone in their gender expression, we support liberation for transgender, non binary, genderqueer and genderfluid people. We acknowledge the ways oppression of gender makes life unlivable for many people. /1
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It needs repeating given the state of transphobia in the UK but Not the Void UL supports everyone in their gender expression, we support liberation for transgender, non binary, genderqueer and genderfluid people. We acknowledge the ways oppression of gender makes life unlivable for many people. /1
Our next meeting is at 3pm GMT this Sunday 16th November, with Heather and Inge. We'll spend 90 minutes together, holding space for sharing experiences, pondering questions, expressing our feelings, sitting in comfortable silences.
If you are surviving, but only just, we're here.
If you are running out of motivation to go on, we're here.
If you need a confidential, non clinical, non judgmental community of people who are living with suicidal experiences, we are here; ready to share compassion and dark humour and solidarity.
If you are running out of motivation to go on, we're here.
If you need a confidential, non clinical, non judgmental community of people who are living with suicidal experiences, we are here; ready to share compassion and dark humour and solidarity.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our next meeting is at 3pm GMT this Sunday 16th November, with Heather and Inge. We'll spend 90 minutes together, holding space for sharing experiences, pondering questions, expressing our feelings, sitting in comfortable silences.
We provide a space where people with lived/living experience of suicide can meet and speak freely about suicide. We offer responses to experiences of suicide that are validating, meaningful, connecting and supportive. Our next meeting is on the 2nd Nov 3pm:
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October 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We provide a space where people with lived/living experience of suicide can meet and speak freely about suicide. We offer responses to experiences of suicide that are validating, meaningful, connecting and supportive. Our next meeting is on the 2nd Nov 3pm:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Nobody invented talking about suicide, but we honour a lineage of people who decided they wanted to take a harm reduction stance to speak to suicidal peers. Not the Void UK came from Alt2sui, which came from queer, BIPOC, sex worker, migrant and marginalised communities.
spotify.link/4wN0fng7CXb
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Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them, Part One
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October 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nobody invented talking about suicide, but we honour a lineage of people who decided they wanted to take a harm reduction stance to speak to suicidal peers. Not the Void UK came from Alt2sui, which came from queer, BIPOC, sex worker, migrant and marginalised communities.
spotify.link/4wN0fng7CXb
spotify.link/4wN0fng7CXb
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Sitting With Suicidality
Wed 10 Dec 2025 10.30am-4.30pm GMT, on Zoom
This training offers a space to talk about suicide and suicidality, to explore and reflect on different perspectives and assumptions, and to think about how we support people.
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Wed 10 Dec 2025 10.30am-4.30pm GMT, on Zoom
This training offers a space to talk about suicide and suicidality, to explore and reflect on different perspectives and assumptions, and to think about how we support people.
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Book your place – Sitting With Suicidality Training December 2025 – Zoom
Sitting With Suicidality Training December 2025 – Zoom, Wed 10 Dec 2025 - This one-day training offers a space to talk about suicide and suicidality, to explore and reflect on different perspectives a...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Sitting With Suicidality
Wed 10 Dec 2025 10.30am-4.30pm GMT, on Zoom
This training offers a space to talk about suicide and suicidality, to explore and reflect on different perspectives and assumptions, and to think about how we support people.
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Wed 10 Dec 2025 10.30am-4.30pm GMT, on Zoom
This training offers a space to talk about suicide and suicidality, to explore and reflect on different perspectives and assumptions, and to think about how we support people.
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
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We have some new training dates coming up this autumn:
Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices (levels 1-3) www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Hearing Voices Group Facilitation
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Sitting With Suicidality
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Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices (levels 1-3) www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Hearing Voices Group Facilitation
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Sitting With Suicidality
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October 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We have some new training dates coming up this autumn:
Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices (levels 1-3) www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Hearing Voices Group Facilitation
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Sitting With Suicidality
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Understanding and supporting young people who hear voices (levels 1-3) www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Hearing Voices Group Facilitation
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
Sitting With Suicidality
www.tickettailor.com/events/mindi...
The candles are lit for everybody we've lost to suicide and everything we lost to suicide and the way it still carries such stigma. My thoughts are with everyone impacted by the #LampardInquiry this week.
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The candles are lit for everybody we've lost to suicide and everything we lost to suicide and the way it still carries such stigma. My thoughts are with everyone impacted by the #LampardInquiry this week.
We are meeting on Sunday 19th at 3pm amd we have places free. We offer a confidential, non clinical, compassionate space where consent is valued and we approach the conversation with curiosity and non judgment.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Not the Void Sunday Peer Support Meeting . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Our Sunday meetings are a zoom space to talk frankly about suicide including thoughts, feelings, attempts and plans and the meaning suicide has in our lives. We are not a pro suicide space, attendees ...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We are meeting on Sunday 19th at 3pm amd we have places free. We offer a confidential, non clinical, compassionate space where consent is valued and we approach the conversation with curiosity and non judgment.
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We're 11 months into an annual organisation subscription to Benefits and Work. 30+ members have accessed copies of guides on applying for benefits, appealing sanctions and award decisions and permitted work.
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PIP claim help, plus ESA, DLA & Universal Credit
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We're 11 months into an annual organisation subscription to Benefits and Work. 30+ members have accessed copies of guides on applying for benefits, appealing sanctions and award decisions and permitted work.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
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It's maybe a bit early for the dreaded C word but I can confirm that Not the Void UK will have our annual zoom Christmas coffee hour on Thursday 25th December morning. Registration will be posted on our website closer to the time.
www.notthevoid.uk
www.notthevoid.uk
A place to talk freely about suicide
We are a group of people living alongside experiences of suicide who seek to find meaningful connections and understanding within that experience. We are not a pro suicide space and do not discuss,...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's maybe a bit early for the dreaded C word but I can confirm that Not the Void UK will have our annual zoom Christmas coffee hour on Thursday 25th December morning. Registration will be posted on our website closer to the time.
www.notthevoid.uk
www.notthevoid.uk
Talking about our suicidal feelings, thoughts, experiences, and attempts can bring up a lot of emotion. As a group, we want to support each other in a trauma informed way, so that people don't leave meetings re traumatised.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Talking about our suicidal feelings, thoughts, experiences, and attempts can bring up a lot of emotion. As a group, we want to support each other in a trauma informed way, so that people don't leave meetings re traumatised.
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Thank you to the Not the Voiders who were willing to try out Co Resting (they did mute my awful taste in ambient music 🤣) on a zoom social meeting call. We radically rested for 20 minutes, which is a big deal for our first time trying it together.
September 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Thank you to the Not the Voiders who were willing to try out Co Resting (they did mute my awful taste in ambient music 🤣) on a zoom social meeting call. We radically rested for 20 minutes, which is a big deal for our first time trying it together.
It's our first meeting back this Autumn and as always, I've lit the candle in remembrance of everybody we've lost to suicide and every bit of our lives that we've lost to feeling suicidal and being isolated by shame, stigma and oppression.
September 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It's our first meeting back this Autumn and as always, I've lit the candle in remembrance of everybody we've lost to suicide and every bit of our lives that we've lost to feeling suicidal and being isolated by shame, stigma and oppression.
Not the Void UK and data privacy.
• We abide by GDPR and only use your data with your consent to inform you of meetings.
• We do not share your email or name with other organisations.
• Our proton email account is encrypted and if you use an encrypted email, is end to end.
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• We abide by GDPR and only use your data with your consent to inform you of meetings.
• We do not share your email or name with other organisations.
• Our proton email account is encrypted and if you use an encrypted email, is end to end.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Not the Void UK and data privacy.
• We abide by GDPR and only use your data with your consent to inform you of meetings.
• We do not share your email or name with other organisations.
• Our proton email account is encrypted and if you use an encrypted email, is end to end.
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• We abide by GDPR and only use your data with your consent to inform you of meetings.
• We do not share your email or name with other organisations.
• Our proton email account is encrypted and if you use an encrypted email, is end to end.
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Next Sunday the 21st September, 3pm GMT time, we are meeting to talk about experiences of suicide. If you are over the age of 18 and are seeking support for yourself, you can sign up and join us, we have places.
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
Peer Support Groups — Not the Void
A facilitated space with structure where we talk about our experiences of suicide and receive peer support to sustain us
www.notthevoid.uk
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Next Sunday the 21st September, 3pm GMT time, we are meeting to talk about experiences of suicide. If you are over the age of 18 and are seeking support for yourself, you can sign up and join us, we have places.
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
Next Sunday the 21st September, 3pm GMT time, we are meeting to talk about experiences of suicide. If you are over the age of 18 and are seeking support for yourself, you can sign up and join us, we have places.
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
Peer Support Groups — Not the Void
A facilitated space with structure where we talk about our experiences of suicide and receive peer support to sustain us
www.notthevoid.uk
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Next Sunday the 21st September, 3pm GMT time, we are meeting to talk about experiences of suicide. If you are over the age of 18 and are seeking support for yourself, you can sign up and join us, we have places.
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
www.notthevoid.uk/peer-support...
Although we do not allow 'professionals' to observe at Not the Void UK meetings, we do welcome people who need support for themselves precisely because you can work in a role like this and also feel like you want to die. The role can be the thing that makes you want to die.
New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Professional
#RewritingSocialCare
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#RewritingSocialCare
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Words that make me go hmmm: Professional
‘Professional’ is yet another of the ‘us and them’ words that dominate our narrative. It’s a blanket term used to distinguish the people who work in organisations (regardless of any professional qu…
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September 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Although we do not allow 'professionals' to observe at Not the Void UK meetings, we do welcome people who need support for themselves precisely because you can work in a role like this and also feel like you want to die. The role can be the thing that makes you want to die.
I accidentally switched my support settings to the German language and my GCSE didn't equip me for 2025, but our website should be live. Accessibility tags are being updated, they will be taken care of.
Our website will be going live again this week - after much domain wrangling! It will have calendar info on meetings, a contact form, info on our values and our radical safeguarding policy.
September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I accidentally switched my support settings to the German language and my GCSE didn't equip me for 2025, but our website should be live. Accessibility tags are being updated, they will be taken care of.