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

Our Lifetime Achievement Award

26/11/25 . News

The Forum has won a Lifetime Achievement Award for its work on men's health.

At the launch of Association for Male Health and Wellbeing in London in November 2025, the Association recognised the Forum's long service to the cause of men's health dating back to the 1990s. Our citation from the newly-founded umbrella organisation for the men's sector included:

  • Formed in 1994 as part of the Royal College of Nursing
  • Registered as an independent charity in 2001
  • Founded Men’s Health Week in 2002, still marked in June every year
  • Visits to the Forum’s website peaked at over two million a year
  • First of the Man Manual series published in 2003. The series has since sold well over a million copies
  • Man manuals currently in print include topics such as men’s health, gay men’s health, women’s health, farmers’ health, mental health and stress, healthy eating, diabetes, penis health, prostate health, alcohol, porn and gambling
  • Pioneering Man MOT ‘chat to a GP’ project developed into interactive manuals on physical and mental health and a training course
  • The Forum have trained over 500 Men’s Health Champions
  • The Forum’s programmes and resources are used by countless health trusts and local authorities across the UK as well as many other organisations across the private, public and voluntary sectors
  • Published influential reports into health determinants, services and social policy covering topics such as gender data, unemployment, relationships, fathers, provision of services, diabetes, cancer, pharmacy, the life-expectancy gap, STIs and male carers
  • Strategic Partner of the Department of Health for over over a decade: 2009-2021
  • Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Men’s Health
  • Campaigned for AAA screening for men at 65. Campaign SUCCEEDED in 2009 preventing around 2,000 premature deaths a year
  • Campaigned with others for vaccines against HPV, a cause of genital cancers, to be offered to boys as well as girls. Campaign SUCCEEDED in 2018
  • Campaigned to highlight the increased impact of Covid-19 on men. SUCCEEDED in updating vaccine guidance
  • Among the first organisations to begin campaigning for a Men’s Health Strategy. Campaign SUCCEEDED in 2024.

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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