Training in Leeds

24/01/17 . News

Our one-day training course on men's health arrives in Leeds on Friday 10th March.

Whatever your current experience of working with men, the course offers evidence-informed guidance on how to engage men in your programme. Based on the latest research and best practice, it pulls the learning together into a practical, accessible package that will enable anyone working in men’s health to reach more men, interest more men and improve the health of more men.

The course, at the Rose Bowl in Leeds is for local areas, commissioners and providers and anyone who wants to empower men to engage with their health.

Dates: Friday 10 March
Venue: Rose Bowl, Leeds, Room RB263, Rose Bowl, Portland Crescent, Leeds LS1 3HB
Cost: £160 early bird (before end Jan) then £190
More info: email here or 0207 922 7908 

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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