One man in five dies before the age of 65.
TOGETHER we can change that.

Champion response!

10/09/21 . Blog

Our health champions have given their verdict on our Men’s Health Champion training and it’s generally very good.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) gave it 10 out of 10 when asked how likely they would be to recommend the training to a colleague. After the training, most felt confident of their ability to be a Champion - nearly half (47%) were ‘very confident’ and a further 42% were ‘quite confident’.

Health champions are not health professionals. Any of us can become one. A health champion is someone who cares about health, wants to help improve it in their organisation or workplace and is happy to talk about it with others, usually one-to-one.

To all the trained health champions who gave us feedback, we'd like to say 'thanks for taking the time'. We asked you if you’d like us to set up some of health champion network and most of you did so we will be doing that. Most popular options were for online meetings (76%) - we’ll try to set the first one up for later this year. 

Meanwhile, if you want to get involved and train to be a champion, we’re adding dates for the autumn right now.

Jim Pollard,
​Health Champions training team

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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