The Kent and Medway Suicide Prevention team are delighted to invite you join us to celebrate HOPE in relation to suicide prevention. We have funded 11 community organisations and artists to demonstrate how art can promote HOPE to those who need it. This event will showcase their work and share stories of HOPE from the experiences of people they have worked with.

Draw Hope is an inspiring collaborative art project that invites participants with lived experience of self-harm or suicide* to create unique, personalised tree mural using their footprints and handprints. Through various creative mediums, including drawing, painting, collage and text, individuals can document their past experiences and future aspirations. Through a series of workshops, participants were guided through the creation of their own personalised tree using their own footprints and handprints and exploring a diverse range of creative techniques and mediums. Footprints form the trunk of their trees, while the branches and leaves take shape through the outlines of their outstretched arms and hands. Each footprint depicts a significant milestone in their lives, symbolising the steps that have brought them to where they stand today. Additionally, the handprints showcase their hopes and dreams for the future.