SamJam Festival www.samjam.org is a family fun festival with some of the best local music, food, and daft activities. All in aid of the Bristol Samaritans, a completely voluntary organisation that help people in emotional need.

The two day event with Free camping runs on 26^th and 27^th July in the lovely setting of Woollard on the outskirts of Bristol.

The Samaritans are a purely voluntary UK organisation that offers a 24/7 service providing emotional support via phone calls, email, txt, and face to face calls to anyone suffering emotional distress.

We live in a complicated and pressured world and many of us will find a time in our lives when things look dark and difficult to manage. The Bristol Samaritans branch have over 160 non-paid volunteers who last year alone responded to 33,000 calls, 4,000 emails, and over 6,000 texts as well as meeting 520 people for face to face meetings.  Across the Samaritans service we respond to a staggering 5 million calls, 380,000 emails, 700,000 txts, and 18,000 face to face meetings each year.

The service provides a completely confidential space for callers to talk about their feelings, emotions, and anxieties. We are not a religious organisation, we don’t judge, advise, or talk about ourselves, but we do care and aim to support our callers while they are having difficult times in their life.

For full details and tickets please go to www.samjam.org