Every day 18 people in the UK take their own life. And suicide in the UK is increasing, with deaths by suicide rising by almost 12% in 2018, a 16 year high. Despite this, effective, ongoing suicide support is hard to find.The Listening Place meets this need through free, face-to-face, non-judgemental, confidential suicide support. Support is delivered by highly-trained volunteers and continues for as long as someone needs.We have a long-term plan to expand across London and eventually offer support to every suicidal person in the capital.

I am Koji Moriya. I work as a community link worker of the community mental health clinic in H&F, West London NHS Trust.

The Listening Place has already provided the life-saving support for some of the service users from H&F. TLP opened their third office in Hammersmith in Apr 2022. Since then, as a link worker, I have frequently communicated with them. The more I work with them, the more impressed I am by knowing what they have achieved for the community.

Since I completed my first ever 42kms walk with London Winter Walk 2022, I find that giving back to the community that I belong to is inspiring as well as challenging. I come to feel that I would like to support TLP by my walking.

There is no conflict of interest between TLP and myself. I choose to do this fundraising for TLP with my own will.