Facts and figures
Every 6 seconds, someone makes contact with Samaritans.
Every 12 seconds, Samaritans receives a contact in which someone
feels able to speak, type or write about their feelings.
Every 60 seconds, Samaritans receives a contact from someone who
has suicidal feelings.
Numbers of contacts to Samaritans
In 2009 Samaritans received 5,074,880 contacts, by phone,
email, text, letter, minicom, Typetalk, face-to-face at a branch,
and at local and national festivals and other events.
Means of contacting Samaritans in 2009
- 87% of calls were made by phone
- 6% of contacts were by email.
- 5% were by text
- 1% were face-to-face contacts in branches.