SAMARITANS

Registered charity 219432 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7408851 · Wikipedia · also known as THE SAMARITANS · also registered in Scotland as SC040604 (OSCR)

Samaritans is the coordinating body for the 201 Samaritans branches located across the UK and Ireland. Samaritans provides a safe place for people to talk, round the clock, every single day of the year. People can get in touch by phone, letter or by visiting a branch. Volunteers also do outreach work, for example, at festivals, prisons, hospitals and schools.

Objects

(A) TO ENABLE PERSONS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF DISTRESS OR DESPAIR, INCLUDING THOSE WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SUICIDE, TO RECEIVE CONFIDENTIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT FROM APPROPRIATELY TRAINED SAMARITANS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE; AND(B) TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN SOCIETY OF SUICIDE, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE VALUE OF EXPRESSING FEELINGS WHICH MAY OTHERWISE LEAD TO SUICIDE OR IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL HEALTH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Epsom and Ewell, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £24.6 million while total expenditure was £27.4 million, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £2.7 million. Free reserves stood at £10.0 million, which the filing notes falls within the stated target range of four to eight months of general expenditure. The trustees confirm the organization is able to continue as a going concern based on current reserves and forward projections.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Samaritans (matched by registered charity number).

Trustpilot: Samaritans scores 1.8/5 from 479 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Public Affairs and Campaigns Manager — £42,000 - £44,000 per year · Ewell, Surrey (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 09/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Manzoni
• Amanda Millar
• Andrew Donnell
• Anna Ling
• Annie Kent
• Christopher Knight
• Dr Hester Mary Wain · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Rosie Jane Allister
• Ella Mae Harriet Dorfman
• Fleur Creed
• John Drew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Leslie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Charles John William Cliff · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Bartlett

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM SAMARITANS.

• BIRMINGHAM SAMARITANS income £120k
• BRIDGEND SAMARITANS income £43k
• CHESTER AND DISTRICT SAMARITANS income £48k
• WOLVERHAMPTON SAMARITANS income £55k
• TELFORD SAMARITANS income £66k
• CENTRAL LONDON SAMARITANS income £319k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.