Alex takes on giant charity campaign in memory of best friend

A Southport man who has taken giant steps to help improve mental help support across the resort and further afield has been hailed for starting a charity in memory of his best friend.

Alex Fitzgerald, or Fitz as he’s better known, started a mental health charity this year after going through a really tough time himself.

His friend Alex Tomlinson told OTS News: “A lot of us lost a really close friend to suicide in 2017and it hit Fitz particularly hard, causing him to go through a long period of depression and generally beginning to struggle with his own mental health.

In May this year, Fitz told me he was starting a charity in the name of our friend so that he can try and help people who might be in a similar situation of feeling alone or struggling with their own mental health.

Soon after, Joe’s Giants was born.

Joe’s Giant’s was created with the aim of helping people who are struggling with their mental health and to help anyone who feels like they haven’t got anyone to talk to.

It’s a non-profit organisation with two fundamental corevalues; Helping anybody and everybody who may be struggling and spreading the name of the most adventurous, fun loving person any of us have ever known, Joe Johnson.

I’m sure a few people reading this will have known Joe and know what an inspiration he was to us all and now Fitz has vowed that world will know Joe’s name by working with others in similar situations. I myself have struggled with mental health and most people I know have in one way or another as well so I couldn’t of been more proud of him when he told me his plans for Joe’s Giants.

Since July this year the charity has taken numerous groups of people round the UK to take on some of the different mountains that we are lucky to have on our doorsteps. They’ve taken groups to Snowdonia, The Lake District and are planning trips for Scotland to tackle some of the natural giants in all their glory. 

They’re already changing lives, with multiple people praising them for how they’ve helped them overcome low points in their own lives