In your community
With over 20,000 volunteers based in 201 branches across 5 nations, we’re actively involved in a community near you.
We reach out and work with schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, health and welfare services, homeless shelters, prisons and other charities.
We also promote awareness of our service at local social venues, community events and music festivals.
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- Find out more about our work in Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Workplace training
Our award-winning, cost-effective training courses are proven to increase staff confidence and skill, from handling difficult contacts to managing wellbeing in the workplace.
We work with organisations across the private, public and voluntary sectors.
Supporting schools
We help children and young people prepare for life’s challenges by running workshops and providing materials.
We also support secondary schools in the aftermath of a suicide, through our Step by Step service, funded by Comic Relief.
Reducing railway deaths
Our pioneering partnership with Network Rail has developed a new regional call-out service, trained thousands of rail staff on a range of courses, and included a national public awareness campaign.
Influencing the media
The way that suicide is reported in newspapers, and dramatised on television, can have an impact on people reading or watching.
Our work with regulators actively encourages all media to portray suicide fairly and sensitively while our media guidelines are recognised as a valuable resource by influential editors and journalists.
Working in prisons
People inside prison are six times more likely to kill themselves than people outside. That’s why we’ve been working with prison services for over 20 years, and now have a special Listener scheme in 145 prisons.
