When 11-year-old Milly died by suicide in 2016, her mother Fiona Tuomey felt a need to speak to people who had lived through this type of tragedy.
She couldn’t find an organisation tailored to help people bereaved by suicide, so she founded her own.
Hugg (Healing Untold Grief Groups) was initially established with a board comprising family and friends. The organisation was a couple of years old when Tuomey decided she would need to professionalise it if she wanted it to grow and help more people.
She heard about an event run by Boardmatch, a small charity established to help similar organisations with a key part of their governance. The annual event works as a sort of speed dating between charities and would-be board members.
“That first year I was looking for a chairman because I was holding about three posts at the time.
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