Suicide Crisis Centre

Our services at the Suicide Crisis Centre are available to individuals living in Gloucestershire who are feeling suicidal.

* We are open for everyone who has used our Suicide Crisis Centre over the past 12 years. Please use the usual phone number you have for our crisis service. We’re very busy but we will get back to you.

We are closed to new clients currently. Please call the crisis team in Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust as an alternative on 0800 168 0398.

We provide face to face support. Our crisis service offers intensive support if you are at high risk of suicide, and we can continue to support you afterwards on a less intensive basis.

A small team works with you so that you can build up trust with them, and have continuity of care. We have a very well-trained team, and we have chosen team members who are caring, kind and empathic.

Our daytime phone number operates between 9am and 10pm every day. We can extend the hours beyond these times for you when you are under our care, particularly if you are at high risk of suicide.

There are times when there is a huge demand for our suicide crisis service: at these times we may support some individuals by phone, if we cannot see everyone face-to-face.

If you live outside Gloucestershire, please see sources of help below. We are very sorry that we only have a Suicide Crisis Centre in Gloucestershire at present. We are happy to work with other regions to support the setting up of similar Crisis Centres.

We don’t reveal the location of our Crisis Centre on the website. This helps to ensure that they remain safe, confidential places.

If you live outside Gloucestershire, you can:-

Phone  111 (the new NHS number)  24 hours a day.

If you, or someone you know, is at immediate risk of suicide, you can call 999.

Helplines that can offer support :

National Suicide Prevention Helpline UK (which welcomes callers of all languages, facilitated by Language Line Solutions: please let them know your language preference when you call) from 6pm to midnight: 0800 689 5652

Saneline can offer emotional support for people in mental health crisis (and advice/information for their families and carers) on 0300 304 7000 (4 pm-10pm every day of the year)

Samaritans: 116 123  (open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year)

Bristol Mindline (Bristol and South Gloucestershire):  0117 203 4419 Wednesdays – Sundays  7pm  – midnight.

Please read this suicide post from metanoia.org  – it takes 5 minutes:   http://www.metanoia.org/suicide