What's in it for you?
Monthly donations help to support our life-saving services, like our suicide prevention helpline. Your donation can help make sure we're always at the end of the phone.
LIFE-SAVING
Together we can help people end their misery, not their lives.
Totally flexible
You can have total flexibility over your donation. Change, pause or cancel at any time.
Make a big impact
You'll get regular updates on the impact your donation is making.
"CALM’s helpline saved my life. They listened without judging me and helped me make a plan for the future."
- Ash
What we do
One in five of us will have suicidal thoughts in our life and every day in the UK we lose 18 people to suicide. We’re a suicide prevention charity that exists to change this. Our vision is that no one feels like suicide is their only option. But right now, too many people are struggling to see a way forward. That’s why we’re here to help anyone struggling with life with our life-saving services and support that can help prevent suicide.
Your monthly donation will make a massive difference, helping people find a reason to stay. Stand with us and together we can save more lives.
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Our helpline is a lifeline
We provide life-saving support to anyone affected by suicide or suicidal thoughts every single day. 365 days a year.
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We're here for everyone
Our CALM guides provide practical info and advice on what you or someone you know is going through - so you can find the support you need.
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We unite people against suicide
We campaign to make sure everyone has the knowledge and skills to unite against suicide.
How we make a big difference
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the number of people who accessed our CALM Guides in 2023
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the number of calls we get to our helpline every month
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the number of minutes we spent having potentially life-saving conversations in 2023
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for every £1 donated, we spend 83p delivering our services
Donation FAQs
It can take us a few days to process your donations once we have received them, but as soon as we do receive your donation we will send you a thank you letter by way of receipt.
You can pay in your donation online.
Or by post - send a cheque, postal order or charity voucher made out to Campaign Against Living Miserably to our address:
CALM, 5 Wootton Street, London, SE1 8TG
Let us know when you have paid in your fundraising so we can keep an eye out for it.
A donation from yourself would mean a great deal to CALM and the people we support. The vast majority of the money we raise from generous donors like yourself is unrestricted, meaning we can spend it on all areas of our work. It could go to our life-saving suicide prevention helpline, which answered over 157,000 calls from people in need in 2021.
To give you an idea of what this looks like, for every £1 received by CALM, 83p is spent on charitable activities (helpline/livechat, campaigns and other services). The remaining 17p goes on fundraising and governance. You can also find out more about how we and other charities spend their money by looking on the Charities commission website.
CALM currently spends 83% of its expenditure on delivering our services: that’s answering calls and chats on our helpline; working with communities across the country; and campaigning for better awareness and understanding of suicide and its devastating impact. Everything else is spent on keeping the charity running and fundraising to ensure we can help the hundreds of thousands of people who need our support every year.