The Listening Place, an award-winning local charity that offers free, confidential and ongoing face-to-face listening, by appointment, to anyone aged 18 or over who feels that life is no longer worth living.
The Listening Place was set up in 2016 in London, by a group of volunteers with a great deal of experience in supporting the suicidal.
They had recognised that there is little on going face-to-face support available for many people with chronic suicidal feelings, and that some of this support can be given by well trained and professionally supervised volunteers.
Our aim is to relieve the suffering of adults from suicidal feelings. We rely on trained volunteers to provide this vital confidential listening service. We need warm, empathetic and caring individuals who want to help others and have the time to offer ongoing, non-judgmental, face-to-face support.
99% of TLP visitors tick very good to the question:
‘Overall, how would you describe your experience at The Listening Place?’
98% of visitors tick strongly agree or agree with the statement:
‘I am able to talk openly about my feelings and problems to the volunteers’.
TLP provides free, face-to-face, ongoing support, by appointment, for those who feel that life is no longer worth living.
Carefully trained and selected volunteers, working in a supportive environment and backed by experienced mental health professionals, have regular meetings with our Visitors who are struggling with suicidal thoughts, plans and actions.
We provide fortnightly sessions, based on active listening and befriending: building trust and a supportive relationship, usually for 3 month period. Our impact measurement shows that this helps people with suicidal thoughts to openly discuss, examine and reflect on their situation with a warm and supportive volunteer.
