- The Nightline Association, an umbrella charity for Nightlines, will close its operations, effective 30 June 2025.
- The closure decision was made due to challenges common across the charity sector.
- Individual Nightlines will remain operational, continuing to provide vital and leading student mental health services across the country.
Nightline Association – the umbrella organisation dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing Nightlines across the UK – today announced its decision to close its operations, effective 30 June 2025.
Nightlines themselves will continue providing student-run listening and information services, working together to maintain high quality support and uphold existing training and policy standards. The hard work and expertise of over 1,500 dedicated Nightline volunteers nationwide will continue to be an asset to student life, as it has since the first Nightline opened in 1970. Nightlines today offer support to 1.1 million students across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
However, as an umbrella organisation, the Nightline Association has faced challenges encountered by many in the charity sector; a difficult funding landscape, declining volunteer numbers, and increasing costs. Its priorities before its closure in late June will be supporting Nightlines, alongside their Students Unions, Trustee Boards and Universities, to continue in their vital work. The Association will leave a legacy that continues to support Nightlines into the future – finding a new home for its training standards, technical and IT support, and other guidance. The Nightline Association will close its doors for the final time in June 2025.
Professor Michael Sanders, Chair of Trustees, said:
“While I am sad that it has been necessary for the Nightline Association to close, I am intensely proud of all the work done by Katie and the dedicated team of volunteers at the NLA. In the time I’ve been chair of trustees, I’ve witnessed the incredible work they’ve done to support Nightlines under increasingly difficult circumstances. Thanks to their efforts, the Nightline movement will be left with the best possible resources as it continues into the future. ”
Katie Endacott, CEO, said the following:
“We are so proud of how far the Nightline movement has come, and we will be working with each of our Nightlines, their institutions and Students’ Unions over the next 4 months to ensure they can continue to support students when other services aren’t available. We are incredibly grateful for the thousands of volunteers who have been involved with the Nightline Association in its many forms over the years. It is with their support, alongside that of our wonderful donors, that the Nightline movement continues to live on. Thank you.”
