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Our online offer for Men's Health Week

09/06/20 . News

The Forum has announced its online events for Men's Health Week. All are welcome - just follow the links to sign up. They're free.

You'll find them alongside the posters, free downloads such as posters and all the other material for the Week in our shop.

Tues 16th June @ 12.30pm
Toolbox Talk online: Work & COVID-19

As we move into a 'new normal' living with and accommodating Covid-19, what are the issues that workplaces, employers and employees need to think about? Meet our new Toolbox Talk on Covid-19.

Thurs 18th June @ 2.30pm
Webinar: Men and Covid-19

Since our last webinar on Men & COVID-19 in April, we've learned a great deal about the impact of COVID-19 on men. Professor Alan White, Peter Baker and Martin Tod will be discussing the lessons of the last two months and the implications for men's health and the health system. (You can view the Webinar here.)

Frid 19th June @ 4pm
Men's Health Chat

Informal chat over a tea or coffee to talk about what we should be doing to improve men's health and wellbeing at this difficult and stressful time of change.

Also available in the shop:
  • Free posters
  • Free toolbox talks
  • Free logos for the week
  • Virtual Man Manuals specially for the Week - all of the content with none of the printing. But, of course, if you do want a printed version, we've got those too.

 

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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