THE STORIES BEHIND SPEAK THEIR NAME: GREATER MANCHESTER SUICIDE MEMORIAL QUILT

Each of the 54 unique squares in this quilt were lovingly created in memory of someone they each lost to suicide.

The Speak Their Name Greater Manchester Suicide Memorial Quilt was unveiled at Manchester Art Gallery ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day 2020.

As well as remembering those lost to suicide, the quilt, film and stories shared aim to raise awareness of the impact of suicide loss and the benefits of peer support and creative activity through grief.

Rebecca Jackson, a fibre artist and mum bereaved by suicide who was commissioned by Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership to run the project said “We want to tell the individual stories of those we have lost to suicide, to show the outside world that these are not numbers, they are human lives and real people left behind. Quilting has a long history of storytelling and calling for change.”

We hope that Speak Their Name will help raise awareness of the impact that losing a loved one to suicide has and to be part of Greater Manchester’s history.”

Read the stories behind each square in the Speak Their Name Booklet by clicking the image below.