Post archive for ‘Members’
How do you feel about donations? (££ Poll)
So many big charities are asking for £2 or £3 a month now, and what with the recession and everything…
Help us with a magazine article
We’d like to hear from people from within the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) community about self-injury.
We have the chance to feature in a magazine that champions diversity and the BME community.
So, we’d like to ask if you, as a member of the BME community, if you’d be willing to provide a quote about your [...]
Tagged as magazine
Categorized as Members, Raising Awareness, Raising Awareness, Self-Injury Awareness Day [SIAD], The Media
Happy new year, let’s make it a good one
Looking forward to 2010, what will you achieve?
Tagged as calendar, Health & Happiness, Members, perfectionism, real-life
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members
Our first FirstSigns Calendar – help raise funds and awareness
Our very first calendar, for your wall. Beautifully put together and printed for you.
Tagged as calendar, wristbands
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members, Organisation Announcements, Raising Awareness, Raising Awareness, Self-Injury Awareness Day [SIAD]
Our visitors in 2009
‘Web hit stats’ can be misleading, but we’re thrilled to see so may visitors from different countries.
Tagged as global, stats, visitors
Categorized as Members, Organisation Announcements, Our Website and the Web, Raising Awareness
FirstSigns Calendar – we need your help!
We are busy planning for Self Injury Awareness Day on 1st March 2010, and we have loads of great ideas that will help make SIAD 2010 our best ever.
One of these is to produce a FirstSigns calendar, and we thought it would be great if some our members could get involved and help us with [...]
Tagged as art, calendar, photos
Categorized as Members, Organisation Announcements, Our Website and the Web, Raising Awareness, Raising Awareness, Self-Injury Awareness Day [SIAD]
Research, happiness, statistics and lies
What is it with researchers? Why is it that every study that comes out contradicts the previous one? One month coffee is good for the heart, the next it’s bad. One year mono-unsaturates are good for you, but these days we have to avoid ‘trans-fats’ – whatever they are. More people are staying in the [...]
Tagged as boys, girls, guardian, men, newspapers, nspcc, statistics, telegraph
Categorized as Health & Happiness, Members, Organisation Announcements, Message Board, Research, The Media
About FirstSigns meet-ups
First of all, thank you to everyone who has contacted us to confirm they’ll be coming to our summer meet-up in Leeds on 11 July. If you haven’t already downloaded your invitation, please do so as it contains all the information you need.
Our meet-ups are an important feature of FirstSigns, our members and our community; [...]
Categorized as Members
Invitation to our Summer Meet-up in Leeds (UK)
After holding our Meet-ups in London and Birmingham last year, we have decided to travel further north this year in order to keep things fair for our members. Accordingly we will this year be holding our summer meet-up in Leeds on Saturday 11 July 2009 and hope to meet as many of you as possible [...]
Categorized as Members
Avril’s DBT blog – introduction
Over the coming weeks and months, one of Australian our members will be blogging for us about her journey through DBT. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a relatively modern therapy, and is proving to be beneficial to many people who self-injure, especially those with additional complicated mental health problems such as Borderline Personality Disorder.
Avril (known as [...]
Categorized as Members
