People who want to be Listeners are asked to attend two days of training in listening.

The next course will be on Saturdays 21st & 28th March 2026 from 10.00-16.00

at Salisbury Methodist Church, 26 St Edmund’s Church Street, SP1 1EF.

Please bring your own lunch

 

E: Salisburylisteningplace@gmail.com  T: 01722 325 294

No parking available at the venue. Nearest carpark is Salt Lane SP1 1ED

If you do, come to

a Training in Listening day

at Salisbury Methodist Church, 26 St Edmund’s Church Street, SP1 1EF

on Saturday 21st March 2026 from 10.00-16.00.

Please bring your own lunch.

No parking at the venue, nearest carpark is at Salt Lane, SP1 1ED.

 

Register for the course at Salisburylisteningplace@gmail.com

or phone The Listening Place on 01722 325 294

 

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Our Listeners are on duty three times a week and we have the capacity to help more people. If you know of anyone who is lonely, depressed, grieving, angry or worried and needs a ‘listening ear’ then recommend our service. It may be a family member or friend or just the person you talk to at the bus stop.

Everyone deserves to be listened to and heard.

Opening hours: Wednesday and Saturday mornings 10 – 12 noon.

Monday evenings 5 – 7.30pm. Walk-ins welcome.

To make an appointment: 01722 325 294 or manager@thelisteningplace.org.uk

Further information: www.thelisteningplace.org.uk

The tree will be displayed at the Festival at St. Thomas’s Church from 2nd to 7th December. A full programme of music together with festive food and hot drinks will get you in the festive spirit. Over 100 trees decorated by organisations and groups make a spectacular display and donations received this year will benefit Julia’s House and Cloud House.

At the recent Listening Place Open Evening, Sue Coakley, the new Manager, received the keys to The Listening Place from the retiring Manager, Sue Robbins.  Sue Robbins summarised her achievements from fourteen years at The Listening Place.   Not only had the Listeners been able to help clients overcome their troubles, big and small, but courses had been run for local groups such as Practice Managers, The Foodbank and Wardens of local Almshouses.  The skills involved in listening without offering well meaning advice, judgement or interruption had been passed on to benefit many more people in this way.  They and their feelings had been listened to and truly heard.

Sue was presented with a Garden Centre voucher, flowers and a Memory book.  A clearly delighted Sue exclaimed “I wanted to buy a tree – now I can buy a wood!” A special ‘Thank You’ cake was enjoyed by all after the talk by Alex Ewing, Director of the Bridge Project.

Alex remarked on the synergy between the service provided by Chaplains in schools to pupils, staff and parents and that of the Listening Place.  He said “The Chaplains provide a space – safe, unhurried and welcoming.  A space where young people, staff and families can breathe.  A space where they are not judged, assessed or hurried along.  A space where Chaplains can help bridge the gap between silence and being heard, between isolation and belonging, between despair and hope. Listening changes everything – knowledge we share with the Listeners at The Listening Place”

The Bridge Project works in 23 schools, both primary and secondary, across Wiltshire and north Dorset.  Its vision is for a future where every young person is given the space to grow in wellbeing and spirituality, enabling them to live life in all its fullness.