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Soup & Shura returns for World Suicide Prevention Day 2026

For World Suicide Prevention Day 2026, Soup & Shura is bringing people together around a pot of soup and a shared table. Come help prepare the meal, sit down to eat and spend time with others in a warm, welcoming community setting.

Developed through Lived Experience Trauma Survivors Assembly (LETSA), this refugee-led and lived-experience-led gathering creates space for thoughtful conversation about mental health, trauma, suicide prevention and how we can care for one another before distress reaches crisis. Nobody will be expected to disclose personal experiences and this is not a counselling or clinical service.

Priority will be given to refugees and people seeking asylum, and to LGBTQIA+, migrant, racialised and neurodivergent community members with lived or living experience of mental health challenges, psychological distress or suicide. Peer workers and community members supporting others through suicidal distress are also welcome.

Places are limited and registration is essential.