The Sheffield Wednesday footballer is backing the campaign having lost both grandfathers to suicide.
Footballer Will Vaulks is to carry a baton in a relay to raise awareness of suicide, after both his grandfathers took their own lives.
They came up with the idea of a silver baton which would be carried, like an Olympic torch, by families and friends of people who have taken their lives.Ross McCarthy, 31, died in 2021, leading his dad to start the Baton of Hope charity Mr McCarthy said: "After we lost Ross, he left a farewell letter and one of the things he said in the letter that we should fight for mental health, the support is just not there.
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