STW asks industry to back R U OK? Day golf event to remember Gavin Larkin

Tim Burrowes

September 5, 2012 9:10

Gavin Larkin

STW Group is asking the media and marketing industry to support a golf day organised by R U OK? Day which was founded by former The BrandShop CEO Gavin Larkin who passed away last year.

Larkin founded R U OK? Day in 2009 as an anti-suicide initiative to persuade Australians to reach out to each other

He passed away on September 21 last year.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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R U OK?Day 5 Sep 12

Thanks mumbrella! R U OK?Day is on September 13th (next week) so this is a great way for us to get together and celebrate Gavin and and what R U OK?Day is all about

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John Grono 5 Sep 12

I didn’t know Gavin and never had the privilege of meeting him. But clearly he is a rare man. What an exceptionally moving but inspirational video.