CALM Helpline

The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK and the cause of 18 deaths every day.

CALM offer helpline and webchat services to everyone who needs support:

• Helpline - 0800 58 58 58
• Webchat

CALM provides:

• Free helpline and webchat which are open 5pm till midnight, every day, 365 days a year.
• Offer practical support and vital intervention for those in crisis. 
• One to one communication, the webchat uses the same trained staff
• Instant response to web chat contact
• All calls are confidential and anonymous – no contact details are displayed to call handlers

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CALM has handled more than 120,000 calls and web chats in 2019.  As stated in annual report, CALM have have prevented 710 suicides in 2018/19 and 1,920 since 2015/16.

Note: This claim is made on premise that: “…calls or chats in which the caller has been actively suicidal, with the threat of imminent suicide and where the helpline worker believes that the caller has stepped back from suicide, or where CALM has successfully enabled emergency services to respond.”  

All calls are confidential and anonymous – no contact details are displayed to call handlers.