International Men’s Day 2024 | Bracknell Forest Council

Tuesday 19 November is Worldwide Males’s Day, which celebrates the constructive worth males carry to the world, their households and communities.

The day raises consciousness of males’s wellbeing, and the theme for 2024 is ‘constructive male position fashions’.

Assist obtainable

Suicide is the main reason for dying within the UK for males aged beneath 50. In case you are struggling along with your emotions, and coping normally, please discuss to somebody.

Andy’s Man Membership Bracknell

Andy’s Man Membership is a males’s suicide prevention charity, providing free-to attend peer-to-peer assist teams throughout the UK and on-line. There’s a group primarily based in Bracknell who meet each Monday at 7pm.

Andy’s Man Membership need to finish the stigma surrounding males’s psychological well being and assist males by way of the facility of dialog. They create a judgement-free, confidential area the place males will be open in regards to the storms of their lives. 

Ascot Shed

There may be additionally a local people group known as ‘Ascot Shed’. This affords males an opportunity to speak and socialise with others, whereas participating in actions like carpentry, mannequin making and even computing. It’s a area to study and practise expertise, share experiences and experience, and socialise with like-minded individuals.

Initially geared toward males who had retired and misplaced social connections, Shed goals to deal with isolation and enhance males’s well being and wellbeing alongside the way in which. If this feels like it might be your factor, or for a person you realize, pop alongside for a chat and a cuppa.

Earlier this month was Assist for Male Victims of Home Abuse Day. You will need to do not forget that Berkshire Girls’s Support (BWA), our native home abuse assist service, affords assist to all genders. Should you need assistance, you’ll be able to name their helpline on 0808 801 0882 or e mail: [email protected].

About Worldwide Males’s Day

The primary time Worldwide Males’s Day was celebrated within the UK, was by the College of Kent college students in 2008. Although comparable occasions haven’t averted controversy, with many highlighting the comparative benefits males have within the office over girls.

Nonetheless, others have highlighted among the challenges males nonetheless face, together with males accounting for 75 per cent of all suicides within the UK in 2019. The occasion has developed and is now seen as an opportunity to spotlight males’s expertise, somewhat than compete with Worldwide Girls’s Day.

The principle goals are:

• to enhance gender relations 
• spotlight male position fashions
• promote constructive expressions of masculinity