Just a little thing about the Samaritans it celebrated its 60th Aniversary yesterday. It started in 1953 by Dr Chad Vara who was a Viccar in Lincoln before he moved down to London and started the charity and was the worlds first telephone helpline. On average today just the Lincoln Samaritans office fielded 16.4k calls in a year and is always availiable 24/7 That works out at 44 calls a day to the Lincoln office alone.
Last edited by Jarre; 03-11-13 at 08:27 PM.
WOW! Without the Samaritans i would not be here today.
Thank you Dr. Chad Vara
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An amazing charity..
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Been using them a lot lately.
Not that i'm complaining but i would rather their number was a free phone number.
I'm sure the government could subsidize them a little?
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With the cutbacks the goverment is making charities are going to be hit aswell, and with people tightening their belts they are getting less and less money.
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They managed to find £6,000,00 for the Philippines.Originally Posted by Angie
Why not a charity who saves lives every day?
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I've always thought that it should be a freephone number. BT make enough money to pay £930 million to be able to show football games on their vision sport channels, so why can't they make it free?
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Bt being Bt wont think of helping if they can get away with it
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Its a little known fact but there is a free phone number and I have it. I don't want to post it on here openly as I don't think Samaritans can afford for the whole world to know about it but if you message me I will tell you it...
but what is the point of having a free number if they don't want people to use it?
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