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Event Administrator - Baton of Hope Norwich 2025
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Summary
The Baton of Hope UK 2025 is coming to Norwich in September and is in need of an event administrator to volunteer as part of the organisation team.Detailed description
The Baton of Hope 2025 is coming to Norwich in September and planning is underway through Norwich Samaritans and other local organisations.
The Event Administrator role will suit a well organised volunteer to build and maintain effective communications during the planning and delivery of this event.
‘The Baton Of Hope’ was devised by a suicide prevention charity as a parallel icon to the Olympic torch – but one that celebrated mental rather than physical wellbeing.
The national event will see the Baton carried across the UK and Norwich was one of the successful bidders chosen to host a one-day leg of the tour. A range of events will take place in addition to the Baton procession.
Suicide survivors and those bereaved by suicide are being offered the chance to help carry the baton in honour of their own survival or in memory of a loved one lost.
It will be the UK’s largest ever single suicide prevention initiative. A similar event in 2023 included 12 locations; this year’s will feature twenty.
"Bringing the Baton of Hope to Norwich will raise awareness significantly and help smash the stigma surrounding suicide – a stigma which prevents so many from asking for help".
Ian Dallas, Outreach Deputy Director for Norwich Samaritans, the charity behind bringing the Baton of Hope to Norwich