Our Partner Charities

headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation. We began in 2006, and ever since we’ve provided early intervention mental health services to 12-25-year-olds. Each year, we help thousands of young people, and their family and friends, access vital support through our Headspace services in over 154 communities across Australia, our online and phone counselling services, our vocational services, and our presence in schools. We support young people with mental health, physical health (including sexual health), alcohol and other drug services, as well as work and study support. With a focus on early intervention, we work with young people to provide support at a crucial time in their lives – to help get them back on track and strengthen their ability to manage their mental health in the future. In everything we do, we aim to meet the evolving and unique needs of young people and those who support them. That’s why our youth reference groups are at the heart of our work, and they play an active role in designing, developing and evaluating our programs.

Centrum ter Preventie van Zelfdoding is a non-profit organisation with the basic objective of preventing suicide. We have been doing this since 1979. The CPZ operates from three services that are interconnected and complement each other: The Suicide Line 1813, the Formation Service and the Study Service.

Centre de Prévention du Suicide (CPS), established in 1970, is a suicide prevention crisis centre for French-speaking people in Belgium. The CPS also provides professional counselling for people (individuals, families and groups) at risk of suicide and people grieving after the suicide of a loved one.

The Crisis Centre of BC is dedicated to providing help and hope to individuals, organizations, and communities. Spanning the spectrum of crisis support, suicide prevention, and postvention, we engage staff and volunteers in a variety of services and programs that educate, train, and support the strength and capacity of individuals and communities. We offer Immediate access to barrier-free, non-judgemental, confidential support and follow-up through 24/7 phone lines and online services, along with education and training programs that promote mental wellness and equip schools, organizations and communities to assist people at risk of suicide.

Established in 1998, the Coordinated Suicide Prevention Program (CSPP) is a prevention and education program, based in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region West. We work under the charitable status of the Simon Poultney Foundation. We work in partnership with schools and community groups to reduce stigma related to suicide, to build community capacity by equipping individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to people at risk of suicide, to provide hope for those living with thoughts of suicide, and support for those who have lost someone to suicide.

Distress Centre Calgary (DCC) has provided 24-hour crisis support in Calgary and southern Alberta since 1970. They do this through their 24-hour crisis and 211 information and referral line, email, daily chat, and daily text for our youth. They also provide short term professional counselling for individuals, couples and families in crisis. They do not define crisis and all their services are free.

The aim of our charity, which was set up in 1956, is to support people in need, especially people at risk of suicide. To this end we provide counselling via telephone (24/7). We also run a f2f counselling service (in person or online) for those bereaved by suicide (https://www.besu-berlin.de/). Our services are free of charge and open to anyone, independent of race, gender, religion, sexual preferences etc.

GibSams is a Gibraltar charity registered with the Gibraltar Charities Commission (Reg. No. 285). Our trained volunteers operate a confidential freephone helpline (#116123) and chat service from 6 pm to midnight every day of the year. The purpose of GibSams’ helpline (#116123) and chat service is to support anyone experiencing any general emotional distress to reduce the number of suicides in Gibraltar. GibSams also seeks to alleviate unhappiness, loneliness, despair and depression by listening to anyone who feels they have nowhere else to turn. GibSams’ dedicated and trained volunteers who make up its Listening Service Team listen to callers to help them without judging them. GibSams’ trained volunteers are non-political and non-religious. They do not try to impose their personal beliefs or convictions on anyone; they simply listen.

Our mission is to harness the power of a global philanthropic network of friends of Ireland to promote and support peace, culture, education and community development across the island of Ireland and among Irish communities around the world. At The Ireland Funds China, we are proud to be part of one of the largest private funding sources for innovative work across the island of Ireland.

The Ireland Funds China relies on donations from private individuals, corporations and other non-statutory sources. We host fundraising events, prize draws and auctions, from which all proceeds go towards executing our mission. We are grateful to all our donors and partners who have given generously.

Founded in Dublin in 2006, Pieta was established to provide free, accessible one-to-one counselling to people suffering from suicidal ideation, engaging in self-harm or to those bereaved by suicide. With over 200 qualified therapists across 15 physical centres, we do everything we can to ensure that help is available to those in crisis. 

Listening Ear seen the need to help support ordinary people to make vital interventions in people’s lives, especially when it came to poor states of mind and or mental health problems. A need for Peer lead support was and still is needed in society.

Today, Listening Ear has trained and supported over 100 local people who are there to listen in their community, schools and workplaces. Listening Ear is also supporting people with debt, benefits and employability, as well as providing a valuable social network day and daily, just to get people talking and sharing.

The mission of the Suicide Awareness and Support Group of Hannahstown is to create a safer and healthier community by preventing suicide and supporting those affected through the provision of awareness raising, crisis intervention and family support services.

Turning Point NI continue to provide a suicide intervention/ prevention service and mental health facility to those in immediate crisis. Our service involves de-escalation of crisis and therapeutic care. Turning Point NI wish to offer this service to all those in the community who are suffering from mental ill health and be a part of their journey to reach the individuals full potential.

PIPS Suicide Ireland Charity provides support to individuals who are considering, or who have at some point considered, ending their own lives. PIPS also provide support to those families & friends who have been touched by suicide. We deliver suicide prevention and bereavement support services, 1 to 1 counselling, befriending services, advocacy support and complimentary therapies and our client-led ‘no appointment needed’ service.

This ‘no appointment needed’ approach ensures there is always someone to contact for a chat when a person might feel vulnerable, might be at risk of suicidal behaviours or is simply in need of assistance. We also provide a range of bespoke training programmes. PIPS is their light in the dark.

PIPS Hope and Support is the leading, independent advocate in the Southern Trust and Newry, Mourne and Down Council areas on all aspects of suicide, including; intervention, prevention, postvention and current trauma in order to reduce and prevent suicide, self-harm and emotional and mental distress. With premises at 50 Mill Street, Newry, PIPS Hope and Support deliver outreach services across the SHSCT areas including Armagh, Banbridge and Kilkeel which are all kindly supported and reliant on by donations from the local community and businesses.

PIPS was formed in 2003 after the death of CEO Seamus McCabe’s son, Seamus, a 20-year-old student from Bessbrook. Formerly known as PIPS Newry and Mourne, the charity is a one-stop shop and Protect Life Resource Centre, providing information, emotional support, counselling and compassionate assistance for those in crisis, those bereaved through suicide and those experiencing current trauma

HURT is a unique drop in centre offering holistic approaches to addiction recovery and family support. Our team of trained addiction counsellors and staff are able to advice on all aspects of addiction and treatment possibilities.
We off clients up to 10 weeks of counselling, 3 complementary therapies and auricular acupuncture seeds.

Inspire is an all-island charity and social enterprise working together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions across Ireland, to ensure they live with dignity and realise their full potential. Our person-centred, whole-society approach means we believe in a culture of compassion, creating a society free from stigma that focuses on people and their abilities.

Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy, and Samaritans’ vision is that fewer people die by suicide. We believe that suicide is preventable.

Samaritans of Newry provide a free telephone helpline for people who are in crisis or are having difficulty coping, particularly people who are isolated, alone and at risk of poor mental health and wellbeing. Our aim is to help them avoid reaching crisis point and thus reduce the number of people who die by suicide. Samaritans provide a listening ear and allow callers to explore their feelings in a safe, non judgemental environment. Giving people time, undivided attention and empathy meets a fundamental emotional need and can reduce stress and despair.

Erne East Community Partnership Ltd is a cross-community partnership incorporating 12 community groups in South and East Fermanagh. The organisation’s operational arm is the Oak Healthy Living Centre which works to address a wide range of issues relating to promoting well-being and preventing ill health. The organisation has a particular emphasis on addressing mental health issues and suicide prevention at community level

The Koram Centre are a community/voluntary sector organisation offering support to individuals experiencing mental health/emotional wellbeing issues, living in Strabane and the surrounding areas. Services offered include counselling, drop-in support, complementary therapies as well as psycho-social support activities. Psycho Social support includes a variety of activities including gardening, education and skills workshops as well as mindfulness/meditation. In 2019/20, the Koram Centre supported over 1600 service users in total including over 400 individuals through counselling, delivering over 4000 sessions.

A Derry-born charity, we now have two offices; one in Derry/Londonderry and a second office in Belfast. AWARE has an established network of 23 support groups in rural and urban areas across the country, which are run by our trained volunteers. Support groups welcome people with depression and bipolar disorder as well as carers for people with the illness. We also deliver Information Outreach sessions and attend community events to give more information about AWARE and our services.

AWARE delivers mental health and well-being programmes into communities, schools, colleges, universities and workplaces. These programmes include our suite of Mood Matters programmes, Living Life to the Full, Mental Health First Aid and Mindfulness.

AWARE has a fundraising department organising fundraising events in schools and communities throughout Northern Ireland.

SOS Detresse is committed to helping people in need of support. People whose critical needs are not being met, people whose loved ones have died by suicide, and people who are struggling with mental illness.

The Kanner Jugend Telefon offers several services aimed at supporting children and young people. They offer a confidential space to talk and will always try to help children to find their own answers to their questions or own solutions to their problems.

D'Ligue The Information and Prevention Service aim to combat stigma by raising awareness amongst the entire community to better understand mental illness, their treatments and the organization of care. 

Our free community helplines (Lifeline 24/7, Suicide Crisis Helpline, Kidsline) as well as our text support service HELP (4357) are answered by qualified counsellors and trained volunteers from call centres in Auckland and Christchurch.

AFESOL (Association of Relatives and People with Mental Illness of the Costa del Sol), is a non-profit association, formed by relatives and people with mental illness, united to find solutions to the problems that arise with mental illness. Our goals are to help improve the quality of life of people with mental illness and their families, claim improvements in Mental Health in the province of Malaga, and support family members and people with mental illness in relationships with the administration.

The Trauernetz Association is a network providing follow-up care across Switzerland for people who have experienced a traumatic loss. Bereavement care for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Promotion of guided self-help groups and establishment of a quality circle for the leaders.

ICAP offers counselling and therapy to the Irish community in Britain. Each week ICAP sees 200 clients through therapy centres in London and Birmingham and through a network of therapists working across the country. Two-thirds of ICAP clients are not working and would not otherwise be able to access therapy.

Building hope, resilience and understanding of mental health and wellbeing in Scotland, since 1982.
We offer a pathway of services to support you with a range of mental health problems including anxiety, depression and trauma.