We are 3 Dads Walking.

Raising Suicide Awareness Across the Country One Step at a Time

Raising awareness.

Suicide is the biggest killer of those under 35 in the UK. We only learned this terrifying fact because our daughters took their own lives. By raising awareness, we hope we can help prevent other families from being devastated by suicide.

A Walk of Hope 2024

Our walks have generated well over £1m for PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide, this has enabled the charity to accelerate its growth plans. In 2023, PAPYRUS extended the opening hours of its suicide prevention helpline from 9am-midnight to a 24/7 service. We now have HOPELINE247.

PAPYRUS has also been able to open more offices; when 3 Dads Walking first got together PAPYRUS had five offices spread across the country, it now has 18 and more in the pipeline. The more offices open, the more activity there is on the ground, the more training delivered, more people introduced to the lifesaving work of the charity and more suicides are prevented. We are very proud to have played a part in enabling PAPYRUS to grow.

Having been asked many times ‘When are you walking down the east side of the country?’ we realised that we could do that by designing our next walk to highlight some of the newly opened (and soon to open) offices in areas we’ve not been to before. Our route will take us from Stirling across to Edinburgh then south to Newcastle and Leeds before we turn east for Hull, we’ll cross the Humber Bridge and make our way to finish in Norwich.

2024 Schedule, Route and Tracker

2024 will see PAPYRUS further extend its work into the heart of many communities across the UK. On our ‘Walk of Hope 2024’, we will refocus our efforts on fundraising to help PAPYRUS achieve its goals; our target for this walk is to raise £150,000.

Please help us if you can.