Three Dads Walking: A busy year in 'the club no-one wants to '

The Three Dads Walking have had a busy year, trekking hundreds of miles to raise awareness of suicide in memory of their daughters. The BBC has been reflecting with them on what they have accomplished and what they want to happen next.

They say they are part of a club no-one wants to be in, and yet sadly they are always meeting new .

Andy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen have each lost a daughter to suicide.

United by their grief and a desire to prevent others finding themselves in the same situation, they have completed two long-distance walks to raise awareness of suicide and are campaigning for it to be a mandatory lesson in schools.

"After you have been through something like we and and our families have been through, you've got to try and get something positive out of it," Tim says.

His daughter Emily took her own life in March 2020. She was 18 years old.

"You've got to keep going as a human being, but if you can make things slightly better for another person, that gives you hope," Tim adds.

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The three dads have learned a lot very quickly about suicide, Andy says, and were shocked to find it was the biggest killer of under 35s in the UK.

"If that's the case," Andy, whose daughter Sophie died shortly before Christmas 2018 aged 29, says, "why aren't we doing something about it":[]}