About Samaritans
Samaritans is a confidential emotional support service for
anyone in the UK and Ireland.
Find out more about Samartians' work in Scotland, Ireland
and Wales / Cymru.
If you live outside of the UK and ROI, visit www.befrienders.org to find your
nearest helpline.
Contacting Samaritans
The service is available 24 hours a day for people who are
experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which
may lead to suicide.
Volunteers offer support by responding to phone calls, emails
and letters. Alternatively people can drop in to a branch to have a
face to face meeting.
Across the UK you can call Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 for the
price of a local call. In the Republic of Ireland call 1850 60 90
90.
You can also email Samaritans at jo@samaritans.org,
write to Chris, PO Box 9090, Stirling, FK8 2SA or if you are deaf
or hard of hearing use the single national minicom number 08457 90
91 92.
Administrative contact details
If you have any questions for our administrative office, known
as General Office, about any of the material on this website,
please telephone +44 (0)20 8394 8300. Email admin@samaritans.org.
Or write to:
The Upper Mill
Kingston Road
Ewell
Surrey
KT17 2AF
Fax: 020 8394 8301
Please address any queries about the website itself, including link
requests, to: webmaster@samaritans.org
Contact details for our administrative
offices in Ireland, Wales and Scotland are also
available
They are so helpful. If they hadn’t helped
me, I probably wouldn’t be here today.
I was so depressed. Thank you so much for being there when
everything else had failed.
I would recommend it to anyone."
Samaritans caller