Samaritans and Choose Life
Suicide in Scotland
Samaritans has been awarded funding from the Scottish Executive as part of the Choose Life initiative aimed at reducing the levels of suicide in Scotland over the next ten years.

The funding has allowed Samaritans to employ a Scottish Development Manager, Frances Simpson, whose role is to support Samaritans in Scotland in the areas of volunteer recruitment, publicity, awareness of our work, and liaison with other organisations in support of The Scottish Executive's aims of reducing suicide by at least 20% by 2013.

Choose Life
Choose Life is the National Strategy and Action plan to reduce and prevent suicide in Scotland.  A total of £12 million has been allocated for the 2003-2006 period. Choose life places strong emphasis on partnership working across all sectors, including national and local government, health. education, social work and voluntary agencies. The Edinburgh Choose Life Plan can be found here.

You can contact Frances at:  Scottish Development Manager,  Number Ten,  10 Constitution Road,  Dundee,  DD1 1LL,  Tel 01382 305709

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