The Samaritans vision is that fewer people die by suicide and sadly, every 90 minutes someone in the UK or Ireland takes their own life. We believe that helping callers talk about their problems can save lives and our freephone number, 116 123, which is open 24 hours a day sees us answer a ‘call for help’ every 10 seconds.  

York Samaritans was founded in 1967 and has offered services to the York community for over 55 years, we take calls every day of the year and in 2023 we spent 5,350 hours taking calls from both the York area and across the United Kingdom.   We’re here for anyone who’s struggling to cope or who needs someone to listen without judgement or pressure and all calls can be anonymous and confidential. 

 We currently have 123 listening volunteers and 18 support volunteers and apart from the listening service we also support our local prisons, Universities, Armed Forces community and many more.  In addition,  we