How did Sashnet start?

The short answer is, on a garden wall, on a sunny autumn day in 2003.

The longer answer is that a group of us travelled to Northwich from all over mid-Cheshire for a meeting of the Suicide Prevention Group. It was a group that had been tottering from meeting to meeting, with most of its good intentions unfulfilled. This meeting, 21st October, was an utter disaster. Neither the chairman arrived, nor did supporting papers. We, a rump of service users and volunteers, made our disheartened way out of the building, to be met by a grinning Gareth asking,

”What’s up?”

We explained. The decision was made to have an impromptu meeting to talk it over, sitting on a parsonage wall. We; Peter, Margaret, Trisha, Brian and Gareth, decided that, somehow, we would continue trying to do something to highlight problems, without resources and without any grand plan. But its begun to work as you may read from the following posts.