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Donate to our chat appeal

Your donation could help our online chat service to save more lives

Your support today will pave the way for a new era for our listening service – the launch of online chat

Could fund 1 call for help every month

Text LISTEN5 to 70470 to start donating £5 a month*

Texts cost £5 plus two standard rate messages*

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How your money can help us

£5

a month could cover the cost of a call for help every month from someone struggling to cope

Donate £5 a month

£10

a month could help us keep our helpline open for 3 minutes

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£20

a month could help recruit and train a volunteer to listen to around 12 people in need each day

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£5

could answer a call for help through our online chat service

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£15

could answer 3 calls for help from someone struggling to cope

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£24

could train & support a Samaritans online volunteer for 3 months

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Where your money goes

For every £1 donated to Samaritans and its branches in the UK and Ireland, 85p goes on our services and just 15p is invested in raising the next £1.

Find out why we need online chat to save more lives

The way people communicate is changing; here at Samaritans we need to change too. The launch of our online chat service is a once-in-a-generation change to our listening service.

Victoria didn’t realise how lost she was until she reached breaking point
“At first, I couldn’t get my words out. But the Samaritan I spoke to was very patient… He was incredible. He saved my life. He 100% saved my life.”
Read more about Victoria’s story

Tom was one of the volunteers who took part in our online chat pilot scheme
“We flipped the switch and in minutes we had people messaging, so it shows how much demand there will be for the service once it’s up and running.”
Read more about Tom’s story

Suicide is the biggest killer of young people aged 20-34. Online chat could change everything
Read more about the need for our new service here

Samaritans caller Victoria looking into her phone

It takes a lot to seek help. If there was someone there online when I went on the website to look for the number, I would have spoken to them.

Victoria

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Samaritans is a charity registered in England and Wales (219432) and in Scotland (SC040604) and incorporated in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee (757372). Samaritans Ireland is a charity registered in the Republic of Ireland (20033668) and incorporated in the Republic of Ireland as a company limited by guarantee (450409). Samaritans in Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland (SC009843) and incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Samaritans Enterprises is a private limited company (01451175).