# Ayrshire Samaritans SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC047146
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 1, 2017
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC047146


## Contact

- **Address:** 17 Portland Street, Kilmarnock
- **Postcode:** KA1 1JN
- **Website:** http://www.samaritans.org/branches/ayrshire-samaritans



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the saving of lives&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** As an affiliate branch of the main Samaritans charity, we provide listening support to vulnerable people in distress in order to prevent death by suicide. We provide the services by telephone, on-line text, e-mail and face to face meetings. We also offer outreach to local prison and school.

**Objectives:** The objects of the Charity are: 3.1 To enable persons in Ayrshire and the surrounding area as well as elsewhere 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 in order to improve their emotional health and to reduce the incidence of suicide. 3.2 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. and 3.3 To collaborate with and support Samaritans Central Charity and its affiliated branches in fulfilling these Objects.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** East Ayrshire
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






