A walk to remember

Save the date, readers! Coming up soon on the Sunday 10 September will be the annual Goulburn Valley Suicide Awareness Walk. The motto of this year’s walk is ‘Pause, Reflect and Remember’.

Our participants walk to honour the memory of those friends and family members who we have lost to suicide. The Goulburn Valley Suicide Awareness Walk was founded in 2021 by Jacky Gilbee and a committee of dedicated and passionate volunteers who wanted to create a grassroots mental health initiative to help support their community with an opportunity to come together and support others left behind after a suicide. Over 100 people took part last year and we expect to triple that number this year.

Registration for the walk is at 8.30am at

Yea Railway Station and this year’s walk coincides with World Suicide Prevention Day.

Jacky will kick the event off with a talk on how the walk began. The two amazing guest speakers this year will be Neil from 4 Child Safe, who will speak about the shock of losing a loved one, and Emma from Wellways, who will talk about what’s available to assist us moving forward.

Last year’s speakers were highly commended for both speaking with genuine understanding and empathy about their own experience of suicide of a loved one as well as providing information about various new organisations, mental health outreach programs and several support agencies. The walk begins around 10am after the guest speakers and honour read by

Cindy McLeish, MP. It continues to the 2 Twin Rail Trail Bridges closest to Melba Highway where a 50-metre banner is displayed for all to see, and concludes back at the Railway Park where Rotary will be hosting a sausage sizzle to help fundraise for local community support.

It’s a longer but leisurely walk this year and we encourage everyone to bring a buddy along even if that is a doggy buddy who we know bring us so much support and love.

Please contact us if you would like to donate, offer sponsorship or volunteer to help out on the day as well as register your participation through our website gvsag.org.au. Also be sure to follow us on Facebook: Goulburn Valley Suicide Awareness Group “GVSAG”. We hope to see lots of you on the second Sunday in September!

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