Statistics - 2005

During 2005 the average number of volunteers keeping the service going 24 hours a day and seven days per week was around 130. 

We spoke to 25,192 people on the telephone, saw 354 visitors in the Centre and responded to 1925 E-mails. 

Edinburgh and the Lothians Samaritans cost £58,420 to keep open in 2005 and is grateful to the Friends, individual donors, corporations and trusts that support us.. We are also appreciative of  those people who think about us when making their bequests.

In Scotland during 2005 sadly the rate of suicide was more than double the rate of our English neighbour.  At more than 33 per 100,000 there were between 2 and 3 deaths per day. 

More people in the Lothians’ 15-24 age group die from suicide than from any other cause including road accidents, cancer, aids or meningitis.