Barbeques Galore has been side by side with Australians in helping to create the great Aussie BBQ experience for 45 years, celebrating the iconic barbeque and the role it plays in creating social unity and bringing people together to build genuine social connection and hold authentic conversations. Two-thirds of Australians own a barbeque, making it the ideal centrepiece for Australian men to gather around side-to-side and talk openly about their mental health with their mates. Barbeques Galore and Lifeline Australia are helping Australia turn the humble backyard barbie into the opportunity to have a life-saving conversation.
Standing around the Barbeque can be a safe space to talk, to listen and to understand. It is a place where you can feel safe to let down your guard and connect with those you trust and care about most. While a barbeques sizzle sounds in the background it’s the perfect time to reach out and ask for help, confide or seek support.
This partnership is a very special one as it encourages Australians to connect side-by-side. There is this ‘conversational safe-space’ that surrounds a barbeque, creating the perfect time and environment to really connect. The partnership with Lifeline allows us to join together in encouraging Aussies to ‘Take 10’ and come together.
Your generous $10 donation will help Lifeline to be there for the 2.8 million people in Australia that reach out to the 24/7 phone, text and chat services every year.
About Lifeline
For 59 years, Lifeline has been connecting with Australians in need through crisis support and suicide prevention services – bringing hope and help to people anytime, anywhere. Through phone, text and online chat, Lifeline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to listen without judgement to any person in Australia who is feeling overwhelmed, experiencing crisis or longs to be heard.
The Lifeline network includes 41 Centres in metropolitan, rural and remote areas across the nation. There are over 10,000 volunteers and 1,000 employees working to ensure that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone. Lifeline centres also deliver accredited education and training programs focusing on suicide awareness and prevention as well as community-based suicide. For more information on Lifeline Australia, go to: https://www.lifeline.org.au/about/
