Samaritans anticipate flood of e-mails
Howard Lake | 5 January 2001 | News
The Samaritans were one of the first UK charities to integrate the Internet not with their fundraising but with their service provision, offering e-mail counselling back in 1994. By last year the charity was receiving 100 e-mail requests a week. Indeed, the Samaritans receive more e-mail than telephone messages from people feeling suicidal. The New Year, often a depressing time for many people, is expected to yield a flood of e-mails to the charity.
Read Samaritans braced for flood of post-holiday emails by Nicola Hill at SocietyGuardian.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.