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Keeping a lifeline ALIVE.

This is an essential service, we can't afford having it closing.
Save Our Services - Without Your Support They Will Close in 2020 resources

For over 30 years, we’ve offered this support to thousands of women and girls in the depths of despair, but now we need to ask for help ourselves. Despite our best efforts, we are struggling to secure funding to carry on running our services after the end of January 2020. Now we need your help to save our services and carry on giving lifesaving help to women and girls who use self-harm.
Save Our Services - Without Your Support They Will Close in 2020

For over 30 years, we’ve offered this support to thousands of women and girls in the depths of despair, but now we need to ask for help ourselves. Despite our best efforts, we are struggling to secure funding to carry on running our services after the end of January 2020. Now we need your help to save our services and carry on giving lifesaving help to women and girls who use self-harm.
Why We're Asking for Your Help

Direct support services

Please click here for details of how to access our support services.
What is self-injury?

Understand more about self-harm and self-injury
Why does it happen?

Find out some of the reasons behind self-harm and self-injury
UK Support Groups and Other Services

Comprehensive listing of local and national self-harm and self-injury support groups and organisations
Rainbow Journal - Personal Self-Help Diary
Helpful responses to self-injury

Short and long term helpful responses to self-injury
Risk Factors

Learn about the factors that increase the risk of self-harm and self-injury
About Us - Our Vision, Our Mission, Our Values

Read more about our vision that anyone who uses self-injury knows they are not alone; that everyone understands that self-injury is a complex and important issue we should all care about and that together we tackle both the causes and stigma of self-injury.
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Launch of Self-Harm Prevention App distrACT

Self injury Support was involved in the development of the distrACT a self-harm prevention app launched in Bristol in November 2017.