Hi,

 

Thanks for looking into sponsoring me. As you know I have pledged to raise £2000 for Putney Samaritans by running the London marathon. I just thought that I would give you some details on this great cause.  

 

Putney Samaritans is a financially independent charity; Samaritan Branches receive no funding from the national organisation of Samaritans.

•       The branch covers the following SW postal codes: 2, 4, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 – a London population of over 650,000.  Callers can talk to a Sam 24/7 including Christmas, Easter, New Year’s Eve, whenever.  Our main expenses are offices, phones, publicity and training.

•       Over 120 unpaid volunteers answer about 40,000 phone calls a year (about a fifth of those we talk to are suicidal), volunteers do about 4 hours per week listening and responding to emails.  About a third of them do additionally about 4 hours or more a week in publicity, recruitment, training, admin, outreach to schools, prison visiting etc

•       Suicide in UK: in 2006, there were 5,554 suicides in adults aged 15 and over in the

UK.  The number of people killed in road accidents that year was 3,172.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

So please dig deep and donate now.