The #ZeroSuicideSociety #JoinTheDots Merseyside Festival

This is a one-day festival

As well as the big start Launch Conference at the Baths Hall in Scunthorpe on Wed 12 June, we'll have a big finish Merseyside Festival at the end of the Tour on Sunday 23 June.

And it really is a big finish!

"This generously donated venue has a capacity to comfortably accommodate 600+ people in addition to all the Display Stalls & Stage. So, please get tickets for yourself, your family, friends, colleagues and anyone you know!

This page will be regularly updated to provide more details and give the latest news. For even more information, view this page on our website.

Tickets: We are asking ideally for a minimum donation of £20. However, please give what you can to support this vital cause and what you think this Festival is worth.
Children attend for free: Each adult must have a ticket but there's no charge for children coming with them. Please note that speakers & performers will be talking (sensitively and responsibly) about suicide. Support will be available on how to talk sensitively and responsibly about suicide, including with children

Timings 12pm - 6pm

Separate to the Festival at the Lock and Quay, but still part of the #JoinTheDots Tour, you can also attend:

Saturday 9am to 12: Activities at the Anfield Sports & Community Centre, hosted by Liverpool FC Community Foundation

Sunday: 9am to 12: the 'Hope Gathering in Hope Street', including the 'Hope Walk' and the 'Voices of Hope Concert' (choirs, other performers & Lived Experience Speakers) in the Liverpool Arts Bar. You will need a separate ticket for this event, details of which can be found on this Eventbrite page: Click here.

The Festival will be held at the Lock and Quay in Bootle which has been so generously donated because they’ve been following The Jordan Legacy’s work from afar for the past 3 years and want to do all they can to support this cause (now up close!).

The venue is well known in the region, especially for the Bootle Music Festival.

On our stage, we'll have bands, singers, choirs & musical performances across a mix of genres, including Rock, Pop, Country, Rap, Hip Hop, traditional English choirs, a gospel choir...and a very talented young performance poet.

We'll have performance poets and comedy and, in the classic fringe festival tradition, a few surprises!

We'll have Lived Experience Speakers on our stage to 'Speak Their Name' for loved ones lost; to tell us their lived experience 'story' & 'journey', including what they're doing now to help support others and get the suicide numbers down; and to give us a 'Message of Hope'.

We have such a big space that virtually every organisation that wants a stall can have a stall! So we'll have health services, emergency services, education services, training providers, community support organisations, counselling organisations, peer support groups, support groups for just about every group or need. If you want a stall, just ask - the answer's probably 'yes'!

Joseph Roberts

Aged just 20, Joseph from Liverpool is already an award-winning performance poet and Spoken Word Artist with an incredible body of work, and some legendary videos (available on YouTube). At age 16, Joseph was showcasing his poetry at school assembly. From there, it’s been BBC Radio Merseyside, Sean’s Place, the Benjamin Zephaniah Show, and BT Sport. Sean’s Place Founder, Debbie Rogers, tells us that Joseph is “insanely talented” – we agree!

Tickets: We are asking ideally for a minimum donation of £20. However, please give what you can to support this vital cause and what you think this Festival is worth.

Children attend for free: Each adult must have a ticket but there's no charge for children coming with them. Please note that speakers & performers will be talking (sensitively and responsibly) about suicide. Support will be available on how to talk sensitively and responsibly about suicide, including with children.

Patrick Mallon and Bon/DC

A few years ago, Patrick Mallon decided it was time to retire from his career as a maths & physics teacher and working in the education/IT sectors, and pursue his true calling as a lead singer in a rock band! A wise decision as many people have said he’s got the best Bon Scott voice since…er, well…Bon Scott!

Patrick’s new AC/DC tribute band Bon/DC will be on our stage in Bootle. Here’s Patrick belting out the always-in-demand (even at a suicide prevention event!) ‘Highway to Hell’ with another AC/DC band he previously fronted UK/DC.

The (Sean’s Place) Choir of Hope
This Festival is taking place just around the corner from Sean’s Place, which was set up by Debbie Rogers after losing her brother Sean, to suicide. The phenomenal success of Sean’s Place has been achieved through listening to the 1000s of men they support, learning from their experiences, understanding their needs, and providing the support they need right now…and then listening some more.

Sean’s Place challenges myths such as “men don’t talk about their mental health” and “men don’t reach out for help”. Create the right environment, a safe, supportive place, where people listen and act on what they’ve heard…and men do talk, men do reach out, men flock to Sean’s Place. And now these men have come together, to sing together, to challenge stigma together, to support each other, in the recently-formed Choir of Hope.

Alfie Fitzsimmons
At the age of 8, Alfie lost his dad to suicide. He discovered there was no peer support available in his area for children, like himself, bereaved by suicide. So, at age 9, he set up Alfie’s Squad, which he discovered was the UK’s only peer support provider for children bereaved by suicide.

Now 15, Alfie has set up groups across Merseyside – with Everton in the Community and Liverpool FC Community Foundation – and Greater Manchester, to provide much-needed peer support to children bereaved by suicide, aged 6-17. He appeared ‘on the red sofa’ on BBC Breakfast on Tues 13 March and, due to the massive response around the country, is going to be setting up Alfie’s Squad Online. Read Alfie’s story here.

There’ll be a mix of performing arts, poetry, comedy, sports & leisure activities on site, face-painting for the kids, etc…all in a space with stalls & displays for suicide prevention charities & service providers.

Children attend for free: Each adult must have a ticket(having made an affordable donation) but there's no charge for children coming with them. Please note that speakers & performers will be talking (sensitively and responsibly) about suicide. Support will be available on how to talk sensitively and responsibly about suicide, including with children

For full details of all our performers and Lived Experience Speakers, please check out the Festival line-up page on The Jordan Legacy website. Click here.

Launch Conference, Wed 12 June, Baths Hall, Scunthorpe

Tickets are also still available for our Launch Conference on the East Coast if you want to attend or know someone you think would want to be there to see this stunning line-up: https://thejordanlegacy.com/conference-line-up/

Host or Publisher The Jordan Legacy CIC