Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

I have chosen R;pple as my charity of choice for my 24hr trek, with no sleep across 6 hills in Scotland, including Ben Nevis, to raise awareness of a magnificent suicide prevention app called R;pple.

The founder, Alice Hendy, lost her brother Josh, on 25th November 2020 to suicide at 21 years old. 

After examining Josh’s phone, Alice had sadly found that he had been researching techniques to take his own life via harmful internet searches.

To ensure more help and support is given to individuals searching for harmful content online, Alice set up R;pple a digital tool, which if a user searches for harmful content online, they will first be guided through a filter of breathing exercises and then very simple, uncluttered and calmly presented strategies and forums, help lines and mental health services they can access both now and longer term: accompanied with messages of hope and encouragement to keep them safe.

Online searches for suicide methods have increased by 50% in the last 2 years with searches for suicide support lines also up by 150% since January 2019.

Mental health is a very serious and urgent issue and one that requires innovative thinking and cutting edge technology to stem these shocking growing statistics.

After spending 27 years in the Technology sector, any kind of innovative solution gets my stamp of approval and, I hope that by choosing this amazing charity, it will attract the right audience to really put R;pple where it deserves to be on every laptop, tablet and mobile phone.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

Best wishes, 

Matt 💚

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