New Room Appeal - with Samaritans
Page creator: Richard Freeman
Page closes: 19th Dec 2009
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About the charity : The Samaritans Ealing Branch The Samaritans Ealing Branch
Samaritans provides confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those with suicidal thoughts. Money is raised to support telephone, face-to-face, email and text-message support as well as outreach and education activities. The Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow branch has around 120 volunteers and answers over 20,000 calls annually.
Charity Registration No 278552
Fundraising target:  £60,000.00
Donations so far:  £ 9,150.19
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About the appeal

The New Room appeal was launched in July 2008, by Steve Pound MP, with the aim of raising £60,000 for:

- An essential ground-floor extension to the Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Samaritans branch
- New training facilities, and the capacity to train more volunteers than ever before
- IT resources for training, education and outreach work
- Improved facilities for visitors to the branch
- A bright and warm training space that can be available to community groups

How can you help?

By supporting the appeal, you’ll help us better reach the communities we serve - over one million people who live and work in West London. With better facilities, we can train more volunteers and support more callers whenever they need us - day or night.

The following people are publicly supporting the New Room appeal:

  • Adam Bloom, comedian
  • Alan Keen, MP for Feltham and Heston
  • Dr Alex Dent, mathematician
  • Andrew J Lederer, comedian
  • Professor Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate
  • Andy Slaughter, MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush
  • Ann Keen, MP for Brentford and Isleworth
  • Assist UK, recruitment agency
  • Ava Vidal, comedian
  • Braybrook & Britten, silversmiths
  • Cllr Caroline Andrews, former Deputy Mayor of Hounslow
  • CEG Theatre Services
  • The Charity of William Hobbayne
  • The Daisy Trust
  • David Quantick, writer and broadcaster
  • Cllr David Millican, Ealing Councillor for Northfield Ward
  • Far From Kansas / The London Gay Men's Chorus
  • Baroness Glenys Kinnock, MEP for Wales
  • Greg Hands, MP for Hammersmith and Fulham
  • The Rev Jacqueline Fox, former Vicar of Acton
  • John Sergeant, journalist and broadcaster
  • Dr Jonathan Holmes, playwright and academic
  • Kulvinder Gill, writer
  • The Last Skeptik, musician
  • Liam Jarvis, theatre director
  • Lidgate's Butchers of Holland Park
  • Louise Golbey, musician
  • Maltpress Web Consultancy
  • Martin & Co (Brentford & Ealing), letting agents
  • Mia Clarke, musician
  • Milton Jones, comedian
  • The Noon Foundation
  • Fr Oliver Coss, deacon
  • Patrick Monahan, comedian
  • Cllr Paul Fisher, Hounslow Councillor for Isleworth Ward
  • Cllr Phil Taylor, Ealing Councillor for Northfield Ward
  • Rob James, architect
  • Professor Robert Eaglestone, critic and academic
  • Stephen Grant, comedian
  • Steve Pound, MP for Ealing North
  • The Rt Hon Tony Benn PC, former Secretary of State for Industry
Why are Samaritans here?

- One in ten teenagers is affected by depression
- Samaritans receives contact from someone in distress every seven seconds - which comes to 4.6 million a year. 64,000 of these contacts are made by email
- 38% of people admit to feeling depressed by stresses from work, family or finances. One in ten feels so lonely and isolated they think there is no one they can turn to for help
- One in four of us knows someone, personally, who has died by suicide
- Two young people self-harm every hour in the UK. 427 people self-harm every day

Our vision is for a society where fewer people die by suicide. Please help us turn that into a reality.

Every donation, no matter what size, is extremely valuable and will be used very wisely.

Thank you!

Display Name Date  Comment
Cllr Paul Fisher Isleworth Ward Hounslow 07/11/2008 All the very best with your appeal 
George 28/10/2008 In memory of Tony 
Trish Judd 21/10/2008 I'm buying bricks 
alan hall 14/10/2008 Good luck with the appeal and have a great night on Wednesday 
1031 29/09/2008 couldn't go to the comedy night so here's the dosh 
Assist Employment; Natasha Allden 26/09/2008 Helping toward your target, with support from Assist UK 
Lidgate's 24/09/2008  
Laila H 19/09/2008 A tiny drop in the ocean for Sams and in support of all your hard work Richard!! Keep going!! 
Simon B 15/09/2008  
Nisha Thakershi 05/09/2008  
Eleanor Coss 29/08/2008  
Elizabeth Freeman 25/07/2008  
Sarah C 25/07/2008  
PHP 17/07/2008  
Mike Dickson 11/07/2008  
Dr. Alex Dent 11/07/2008 The Samaritans provide an invaluable service: that this service is provided through the generousity  
Cllr Andrews 08/07/2008 good to know the young people have someone to listen to them when they most need it!! 
Cllr Phil Taylor 02/07/2008  
al 01/07/2008 good luck with the fundraising 
Emma Dabbs 30/06/2008 Best of luck with the fund raising, Rich  
Anonymous 29/06/2008  
Adam Maltpress 28/06/2008  
anonymous 27/06/2008  
Mwela Ohuonu 24/06/2008 Good for you for working to make a difference in people's livf's. I pray you reach your target. Go R 
Linda Maguire 23/06/2008 ... some mortar for that brick. 
Mia Clarke 23/06/2008 Best of luck! 
Christopher Whalen 23/06/2008 Good luck and keep up the good work! 
Geraint Price 23/06/2008 Good luck in getting to the £60k 
CharlotteV 23/06/2008 A brick for the new room.... 
Anonymous 21/06/2008  
David Quantick 19/06/2008  
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*Total donated online: £909.00
Amount raised offline: £8,241.19
Gift Aid plus supplement: £207.03
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