By Ellie, Founder and CEO, HelloHope
We’re usually the ones offering support. This time, we need yours.
Times are really tough. Right now, we don’t have the funds to keep HelloHope running beyond February 2027.
This is the most scared and uncertain I’ve felt in my 11+ years of self-employment. I know we’ll turn it around. I’m a very determined person, and I care so much about our mission to prevent suicide. But not having sight of any funding yet is giving me sleepless nights.
The good news is that there are lots of ways you can help, whatever your situation. Every action, big or small, helps us keep on working to reduce one of the most preventable deaths.
Ways to support us financially
Donate
A one-off or regular donation goes directly towards keeping our work going. You can donate any amount here: Donate via PayPal
Fundraise for us
You can run, walk, bake or host an event. However you like to fundraise, we’d love you to do it for HelloHope and we’ll happily champion your efforts through promotions. Get in touch if you have any fundraising ideas or to join the waiting list to join a group taking on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks again in 2027.
Sponsor us
If your business or organisation would like to sponsor HelloHope, we’d love to talk about how we can work together.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for our returning major projects, Leeds Wellbeing Week, returning April 2027, Hope Awards, due to return autumn 2027 or any of our regular events such as our monthly netwalks, bi-annual Nibbles & Natter cheese nights.
Being such a small, independent organisation with a sister company in MacComms, PR and marketing agency, means we can be flexible and come up with an idea for an event together if you’d like to show off your premises / products / services. Let’s have a brew and see what we can do!
Book us for talks and training
We deliver a range of mental health and suicide prevention talks and training for workplaces, communities and professional groups. Booking us helps your people and helps us continue our mission. When we have open training courses you can view these (alongside our upcoming events) here. If you have 6-20 people, we can discuss a suitable training date and location for you. Download our training guide here.
Introduce us to a workplace for training
As well as standard Mental Health and Suicide Prevention courses, we specialise in bespoke training that is effective and impactful for key, high-risk sectors. We have courses for Family Law professionals and hotels. Could you introduce Ellie to key contacts in these industries? Get in touch and we can send you the relevant wording.
Shop with us
Now this is exciting! We’ve just launched an online shop selling HelloHope branded merchandise so you can share messages of hope on clothing and bags (with more products coming) as well as supporting our non-profit. There’s a wide range of designs, messages and colours (within the HelloHope colour palette of course!). A huge thank you to Paul D, branding expert and Paul W our brilliant tech supporter for making this happen!
Ways to help that don’t cost a penny
Vote for us in the LNER Customer & Community Investment Fund (CCIF)
We’ve been shortlisted for the LNER CCIF. If we win, the funding will pay for our monthly walks and turn our existing netwalks into wellbeing walks.
Please vote for HelloHope in the ‘Better for People’ category. It takes less than a minute, and every vote counts.
👉 Vote here (Voting closes 22nd November 2026)
Make an introduction
Do you know someone who could fund, sponsor or book us? An introduction could make all the difference.
Recommend us
Tell your colleagues, friends and networks about HelloHope and what we do.
Leave a review
If you’ve attended our training, walks or talks, a review helps others find and trust us. Add your positive feedback to our Facebook, or LinkedIn.
Thank you, as always, for being such a supportive part of the HelloHope community. Whatever you’re able to do, whether it’s a donation, a vote, a share or an introduction, it truly matters.
With hope, Ellie
Founder and CEO, HelloHope