Help Tracy save Man MOT

21/01/16 . News

Please sponsor our deputy chief executive Tracy Herd to help save our popular Man MOT online chat service.

Tracy Herd - the woman to save Man MOT Tracy is running in the Brighton half-marathon on 28th February 2016 – that's very soon. And she is running to keep Man MOT running.

Man MOT is the Men's Health Forum's chat and email service for men - no appointments, no names, just visit manmot.co.uk and chat to a GP (or send an email). Every night our GPs are at capacity but if we can't find additional funding, the service will have to close at the end of March. Can you help?

Tracy, who manages the Man MOT project, said: 'Man MOT the easiest way for any man anywhere in the country to talk to a GP directly but our funding is coming to an end. Can you help us keep Man MOT running until we find a new funder? Every £8 equals one chat or email which equals one man's health concern sorted simply. And saves hard-pressed NHS services for when we really need them.'

Sponsor Tracy at Just Giving today.

And gentleman, step up to the plate. Does it take a woman to save Man MOT? Donate here. Or through Just Giving. Or if you'd like to run (or fundraise in any other way) for us, contact us here.

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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