Be a Haringey Health Champion

Volunteer to be a Man MOT Health Champion and make a difference - free training and incentives

Do you have good communication skills? Do you have regular contact with local Haringey men? Got a day a week to spare? Interested in FREE training?

 What do Man MOT Health Champions do? 
  • Raise awareness of the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle amongst men. 
  • Provide health information to men. 
  • Signpost men who are interested in making healthier lifestyle choices to appropriate services. 

To support Man MOT Health Champions to carry out their role we provide FREE training, regular supervision and incentives, eg. vouchers. 

The Man MOT Health Champion role focuses on 5 key areas: 

  • Promoting physical activity 
  • Healthy eating (achieving and maintaining a healthy weight) 
  • Smoking cessation 
  • Reducing alcohol intake 
  • And, of course, promoting the Man MOT online service
How do sign up?

For more information or if you have any queries please contact Deborah Saunders (Senior Health Trainer) at deborah.saunders@enfield.gov.uk or by telephone 020 8379 5844. 

Image: Haringey Man MOT Health Champions Nigel Brown and Shaun Perry

 

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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