Jay Lennon Foundation

General information

Sadly on the 30th April 2016 Jay Lennon Kerrigan Gascoigne passed away. Jay was suffering from mental health illnesses. Jay was the most loving caring lad you could ever meet, he was a beautiful soul and a real beautiful person. Jay was let down time and time again by the services that were supposed to be helping him, he was passed around and treat like a number. Jay fell through the cracks. He was broken and no one wanted to fix him.

Mental Health in young people and adults is one off the most common issues but not always addressed fully or correctly. Young people in this country wait far too long to access services then they are consistently let down by those services young people need to be listened to and their cries for help need answered.
The Jay Lennon Fund was set up initially to help raise awareness of the struggles people face with mental health problems and to raise money to support mental health charities, the fund is proud to say it raised over £5000 in less than 5 month for Tyneside MIND.
The Fund has gone as far is it can and now in order to go to the next level and really make a difference, the Fund is now a Foundation. We will together raise awareness and campaign for change, we will raise money to fund hospital assessment beds for those who cry for help and get turned away, we will ensure that Jay's legacy is one of Love, Inspiration and Change. Shine On our beautiful boy.

Finally we would just like to take the time to thank everyone for liking and sharing this please help us get this world wide and stand with those with mental health issues.