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Cameron Grant Memorial Trust

Cameron Grant took his own life in November 2014 aged just 21. When he died nobody
knew he was ill, yet he left a letter describing a 7-year battle with symptoms of depression
which he managed to hide from everyone who knew him.

Because Cameron chose to hide his struggles from the world, as Cameron Grant Memorial
Trust we encourage anyone in any mental distress to speak up and ask for help. We do this
by creating “signposts” with help information. Our signposts might be the drinks mats we
call Cameron’s Coasters, business cards, wellbeing postcards or any other physical item on
which we can print help information. We customise our signposts so that they have the
help information most important for the setting where they are used. We have produced
over 1.4 million Coasters and more than 100,000 postcards. They are in use across the UK.

We also make small grants to support mental health innovation and this year we will make
2 grants to support counselling capacity for young people in Solihull and Birmingham.

All this work is only possible through fundraising, and we hope to see many of you on the
Night Walk on 11 October, setting off from the Fentham Hall, Hampton-in-Arden from
6.30pm. The bar will be open to welcome returning walkers and there will be food
available, with samosas from the Soho Tavern, meat and vegetable chilli from The Corner
Shop and pizzas from Pizza the Action.
Link for free Night Walk registration: https://night-walk-for-cam-2024.eventbrite.co.uk/
Link to donate: https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/appeal/night-walk-2024
Cameron Grant Memorial Trust website: https://www.camgrant.org.uk/

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