The Listening Place

The Listening Place: Face-to-face support for people who feel that life is no longer worth living

Every day 18 people in the UK take their own life. And suicide in the UK is increasing, with deaths by suicide rising by almost 12% in 2018, representing a sixteen year high.

Despite this, effective and ongoing suicide support is hard to find.

The Listening Place meets this need by providing free, face-to-face, non-judgemental and confidential suicide support.

Support is delivered by highly-trained volunteers and continues for as long as a person needs.

We have strong evidence to show that our support works. Our latest evaluation of over 1,300 visitors showed:

·        highly significant decreases in self-reported distress and suicidal feelings

·        highly significant increases in experiences of support.

We have a long-term plan to expand across London and eventually offer support to every suicidal person in the capital.