Staff working for Nexus \u2013 operators of the Tyne and Wear Metro as well as the Shields Ferry, some bus services and interchanges \u2013 have managed to raise \u00a36,900 for James\u2019 Place after a year of fundraising activities.<\/p>\n
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The money was handed over to the charity at the charity\u2019s Newcastle centre on Thursday 23rd<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n James\u2019 Place offer free, lifesaving therapy to suicidal men at centres across England. Their Newcastle centre supports men across the North of England. The charity was founded by the parents of James Wentworth-Stanley, a University of Newcastle student who took his own life in 2006.<\/p>\n Michael Hunt, from Nexus was heavily involved in the fundraising. He said: \u201cNexus is a member of the Manbassador programme, which is an ongoing workplace wellbeing initiative, to help support male employees with their physical and mental health. Supporting James\u2019 Place was the perfect fit with that.\u00a0 We co-ordinated regular activity challenges which all employees could get involved in, such as walks and football tournaments. Attendees donated to James\u2019 Place while also taking part in activities that benefit their mental and physical health.\u201d<\/p>\n Ashley Dixon, Fundraising Manager at James\u2019 Place, said: \u201cWe\u2019re really grateful for support from all the team at Nexus. It has helped us raise awareness of our life-saving work amongst the men who work at Nexus, as well as raise vital funds enabling us to support men in suicidal crisis when they need it most. Men can refer themselves to James\u2019 Place for help, or you can refer someone you are worried about at jamesplace.org.uk\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff working for Nexus \u2013 operators of the Tyne and Wear Metro as well as the Shields Ferry, some bus services and interchanges \u2013 have managed to raise \u00a36,900 for James\u2019 Place after a year of fundraising activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62789,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62788\/revisions\/62789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}