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

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18/11/15 . News

The Men's Health Forum has been awarded the Healthy Workplace Charter award at commitment level.

Accredited by the Mayor London, the London Healthy Workplace Charter is 'a self-assessment framework that recognises and rewards employers for investing in workplace health and wellbeing'. It provides a series of standards for workplaces to meet in order to create a health-enhancing workplace. So far over sixty employers covering over 150,000 employees have been accredited.

Deputy CEO Tracy Herd, who accepted the award on behalf of the Forum said: 'The charter provides the opportunity for employers to demonstrate genuine commitment to the health and wellbeing of their staff. This requires organisations to look at leadership, culture and communication. We see this award as an integral part of our intention to be the best employer we can be for our staff.'

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Tracy Herd and Errol Franklin receive the Forum's certificate from Dame Carol Black

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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