Salisbury

Every year, 120 local listening volunteers receive over 20,000 calls and emails from people in crisis and in need of immediate emotional support. Our support volunteers help us to raise money, raise awareness of our services, organise events, keep our computers working or contribute to the many administrative roles that keep our branch running smoothly.

We support our local prison through the Samaritans Listeners scheme, training and supporting Prison Listeners.

We support our local community through an active outreach programme. Through outreach we support people who are in distress in our community. We also work to promote awareness of listening skills and explain how active listening can help people who are struggling. We work to improve understanding of emotional health and how it impacts on young people's wellbeing. We support our military on Salisbury Plain by attending welfare events and giving presentations to serving members of the armed forces. Our speakers make presentations to local organisations and clubs, both for general awareness of Samaritans and to help people who provide emotional support in their roles.

• Donate to this branch - If you would like to donate to us, raise funds for us, or remember us in your Will or with an In Memory donation, we would love to hear from you. Equally, if you would like to become a “Friend of Salisbury Samaritans”, please do join us by becoming a regular donor by clicking on the donate to us button and scrolling down to the Monthly Payment option. Thank you for your support.
• Particularly important are the regular monthly donations from our “Friends of Salisbury Samaritans”. These monthly donations are the gifts that keep on giving.  You can donate monthly amounts between £10 and £25 while companies and other local donors make often larger and much appreciated monthly donations. Such regular donations, whether small or large, are all gratefully received and enable us to keep supporting people.
• Volunteering - our waiting list for our Listening Volunteer training courses is nearly a year long at present due to a high level of applications over the last few months. Whilst we reduce the backlog, we will not be accepting any new applications to become a Listening Volunteer. We are still keen to expand our support to callers, so we hope that you will bear with us and check our web pages again later in the year. We will announce on Twitter when we are recruiting again. Our support volunteers require different training so at present there is no waiting list for anyone who would like to volunteer in a non listening role such as admin, fundraising, publicity, marketing, etc. If you are interested in joining Salisbury Samaritans as a support volunteer, please email [email protected].
• To keep up to date with what we're doing, please follow us on Twitter @SalisburySams

To request information about our branch, please email [email protected] or phone us on 01722 330672.

Please note: we are not able to offer face to face support. If you would like to speak to a Samaritan, please call (free from any phone) 116123 or email [email protected] and there will be a volunteer to speak with you.

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