Becoming a volunteer
Did you know that Samaritan volunteers cover 557 telephone helplines, 24 hours a day, 7 days week, 365 days a year?
Samaritans initial training
You will train, learn and then work within a group of people who will fully support you at all times.
Three Rings
Click here to read about Stockport Samaritans
online rota system
Fundraising
Samaritans is a registered charity funded almost entirely by charitable donations - money from the local council, public, trusts, companies and so on.
Stockport branch opening times
Nationally, Samaritans is a 24/7 service - you can find the opening times for Stockport branch here.
Stockport Samaritans home page . . .
. . . did you know?
- One person takes his or her own life every fourteen minutes in the UK.
- Nationally, the Samaritans are contacted by people in distress every seven seconds - by phone, by email, by text or by visitors to our branches.
- The data held centrally shows that since 1984 Samaritans has received over 63 million contacts in which people felt able to speak, type or write.
- Samaritans consists of 201 branches with over 18,000 volunteers
- In 2008, over 150,000 people were informed about Samaritans service through outreach and public awareness work by Samaritans branches.
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