Festival Branch
Festival Branch go to events throughout UK
and Ireland and provide a 24-hour Samaritan service. The
events are predominantly out-door music festivals like Glastonbury
or Reading, but also various biker, dance, surf, multicultural,
lesbian/gay, homeless events, and others.
If you're at an event and feel you need to talk something
through with a non-judgmental person, in complete confidence,
please come by and see us.
Festival Branch at
Glastonbury
Find out more about
Festival Branch on their website
Irish Festival branch
Samaritans Irish Festival branch was launched in
January 1999 with the aim of taking Samaritans' service to
locations where there are large numbers of people, increasing the
availability and accessibility of confidential emotional support to
anyone who needs it. Every year the branch requests a presence at
selected major events according to the availability of volunteers
and schedule of the events.
The Irish Festival branch van
Find out more about the festivals visited
by Irish Festival Branch in 2007
Festival branch volunteers are trained to offer
face-to-face support in a discreet way to those they speak to and
when availed of, seems like two people having a conversation. Last
year, Samaritans festival branch attended eight events and spoke to
in excess of 1,300 people, almost three-quarters of whom were male
and one-third were aged 16-24.