The Listening Place

The Listening Place Face-to-face support for those who feel life is no longer worth living. Since the charity was founded in 2016, it has received over 30,000 referrals.

The Listening Place currently supports around 2,000 people on an ongoing basis each month across three London sites (Pimlico, Kings Cross, Hammersmith and Liverpool Street). TLP offers a warm, non-judgmental and completely confidential setting in which people can speak openly about wanting to end their own lives. Carefully selected and trained volunteers deliver fortnightly, 50-minute appointments, supporting visitors for at least three months and up to a year. TLP is open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year except Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Interested in volunteering with us? Find out more here: http://listeningplace.org.uk/volunteer/

Please note that TLP cannot provide support via this page. It is not actively managed and to protect the anonymity of anyone wishing to contact us the message service and wall post options have been disabled.

Just a few of the lovely things our visitors have said about their volunteers at The Listening Place over the past few w...
14/11/2025

Just a few of the lovely things our visitors have said about their volunteers at The Listening Place over the past few weeks...

Volunteering with The Listening Place is normally quite a quiet experience. On shift, volunteers are focused on simply doing their best to support their visitors, rather than being noticed or praised. The conversations they have are completely confidential and can't be discussed outside of the organisation. So we're delighted that their work has been recognised today in such a prominent way by the King's Award for Voluntary Service. It is richly deserved.

We are so honoured and delighted to have received the King's Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award that can be ...
14/11/2025

We are so honoured and delighted to have received the King's Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award that can be given to voluntary groups in the UK and the equivalent of an MBE.

KAVS is a lifetime achievement award given to groups that are truly outstanding and making a big difference to their local community, where volunteers, rather than paid staff, are in the driving seat, and that have the highest standards in everything they do.

Our 850 volunteers are the lifeblood of our organisation and at the heart of our model of support. Together, they donate around 90,000 hours of their time each year to ensure that people who feel suicidal can access swift, compassionate and confidential support, face to face. This award is a great tribute to all of them 💜

We are enormously grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation for their £300,000 grant towards our core costs over three ...
12/11/2025

We are enormously grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation for their £300,000 grant towards our core costs over three years ✨

This money will really help us as we expand the life-saving service we provide across London, supporting thousands more people with suicidal thoughts each year.

People come to The Listening Place to have really difficult conversations — the kind they might not be able to have anyw...
10/11/2025

People come to The Listening Place to have really difficult conversations — the kind they might not be able to have anywhere else.

Our volunteers are the sort of people who turn up for their shifts ready and able to have exactly those conversations. People who understand that, sometimes, the simple act of speaking openly about suicidal thoughts can reduce their power. People who are willing to listen carefully and compassionately, without trying to fix someone or give them advice.

Could you be one of them? We're currently looking to recruit volunteers for shifts at our Hammersmith branch on Shepherds Bush Road. If you live or work in and around West London, please consider applying today listeningplace.org.uk/volunteer

We were delighted to welcome the Lady Mayoress of the City of London, Florence King, to our new Cobb Street building las...
04/11/2025

We were delighted to welcome the Lady Mayoress of the City of London, Florence King, to our new Cobb Street building last week for a small official opening ceremony.

The Lady Mayoress said: “Even in a wealthy, vibrant city like London, people can so easily fall through the cracks. But London is also full of compassionate, curious, open-minded people — the type of people who are really well-suited to listening to people with suicidal thoughts, without judging them or trying to fix them.

“I'm so pleased to be here today with some of The Listening Place's longstanding volunteers to open their new East London building, which will allow them to support thousands more people who feel that life is no longer worth living.”

Many thanks to Peter Ghobrial for these beautiful photographs of our new fourth site, designed and built by HOP Works. F...
03/11/2025

Many thanks to Peter Ghobrial for these beautiful photographs of our new fourth site, designed and built by HOP Works.

From unpromising beginnings, this building on Cobb Street E1 has been transformed over the past few months into a calm and welcoming space for our visitors, volunteers and staff. It will allow us to help thousands more people, train hundreds more volunteers and reach whole new communities in and around East London.

We are so grateful to everyone who gave to the recent capital appeal to help fund the build of our new Cobb Street site....
20/10/2025

We are so grateful to everyone who gave to the recent capital appeal to help fund the build of our new Cobb Street site. Thanks to your support, we raised an incredible total of £35,870 🧡

An incredible result for our team of TLP runners at the Royal Parks Half Marathon last weekend. They smashed their origi...
16/10/2025

An incredible result for our team of TLP runners at the Royal Parks Half Marathon last weekend. They smashed their original fundraising target by over £10k, raising over £28,000, enough to support 112 of our visitors for as long as they need. Thank you to everyone who trained so hard and brought such enthusiasm on the day.

A shout out to the runners from some of our wonderful corporate supporters: Kingsley Napley, Marshall Wace, H/Advisors Cicero and Alchemmy — we so appreciate everything you do for TLP. 🏃

A huge thank you to the Bernard Sunley Foundation for their generous grant of £60,000 towards our fourth London site, 1-...
15/10/2025

A huge thank you to the Bernard Sunley Foundation for their generous grant of £60,000 towards our fourth London site, 1-3 Cobb Street E1 ✨

We welcomed our first visitors to the new building this week, following an extensive refurbishment. With nine carefully designed listening rooms and a location five minutes' walk from Liverpool Street station, Cobb Street will take our capacity for support to over 10,000 people a year across London.

Today, we start delivering appointments at our new East London site.So many people have contributed to this achievement ...
14/10/2025

Today, we start delivering appointments at our new East London site.

So many people have contributed to this achievement — the staff who poured their hearts and souls into making Cobb Street the best that it could possibly be, the volunteers old and new who have taken on shifts, our brilliant designers and contractors who helped us transform what was once a gym into a warm and welcoming space for our visitors, and the donors who generously funded such an ambitious project. A huge thank you to all of you 🧡

Cobb Street is our largest site yet and will allow us to support over 10,000 people each year across London. With over 900 referrals a month now coming in, this extra capacity arrives just in time.

We'll be sharing some photos of the interiors in the coming days, so watch this space...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first TLP Conference on Saturday at Conway Hall — our brilliant speakers Ben...
13/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first TLP Conference on Saturday at Conway Hall — our brilliant speakers Ben West, Dr Gwen Adshead, James Longman and Paddy O'Connell, our Chair Valerie Michie and the 160 TLP volunteers who came along to listen, learn and contribute.

“The Listening Place helped me more than I could ever have imagined. The fact that my volunteer wasn’t a healthcare prof...
10/10/2025

“The Listening Place helped me more than I could ever have imagined. The fact that my volunteer wasn’t a healthcare professional but a trained lay member of the public, who was ready to listen to me without judging me, offering advice or trying to fix me, was different to any other form of support I had received in the past.”

This , NHS doctor and previous TLP visitor Dr Tash Binnie tells us about her experience of using our service and about her recovery from depression and suicidal thoughts. Thank you, Tash, for sharing your story with us 🧡💛

Read Tash's full story here https://listeningplace.org.uk/tashs-story-suicidal-thoughts-can-happen-to-anyone/

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