Did you know?

• People do not have to be actively suicidal to call us
• Around 80% of the people who contact us do not express suicidal feelings
• It costs us £3.88 to answer each contact
• We are contacted more than five million times a year - that's once every six seconds
• We have been helping people in distress since 1953
• Although our founder was a priest, we are not a religious organisation
• Today our service is available 24 hours a day
• Our service is provided by around 20,665 unpaid volunteers
• We rely almost entirely on voluntary donations
• Our volunteers work from 201 branches, all across the UK and Ireland
• 16 people take their own life every single day in the UK and Ireland