Governance and history
How it all started
Samaritans was started in 1953 in London by a young vicar called
Chad Varah, who worked in the city parish of St Stephen, Walbrook
in the City. During his career he had offered counselling to his
parishioners, and he increasingly wanted to do something specific
to help people in distress who had no one to turn to.
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Why Samaritans started
A message from Chad Varah, founder of Samaritans, describing how
and why the organisation began.
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Governance
The way Samaritans is governed is laid down in the Memorandum of
Association and Articles of Association that were adopted at an
Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) held in January 2006.
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