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Bristol Charity Advent Calendar 2025, day 11: Talk Club
With the constant feeling of being on-the-go that comes with modern life, men’s mental health charity Talk Club is eager to slow down, encouraging conversations to promote prioritising mental wellbeing.
Based around the simple questions: “How are you? Out of 10?”, Talk Club aims to teach the importance of acknowledging ranges of emotions and developing strategies to process them in healthy and constructive ways.
Referring to the practice as “mental fitness”, the team hopes to build emotional literacy, helping men to identify and work through how they are actually feeling.
Talk Club hopes to increase conversations surrounding men’s ‘mental fitness’ – photo: Damian Kerlin
The charity is working to change the numbers of men silently struggling with their mental health, saying that 76 per cent of suicides are currently men, making it the biggest killer of men under 60.
“It silently screams that men struggle to prevent poor mental health and find a way to share how they really feel,” said the team.
“By putting a number on how we feel and explaining why, men have a way to open up and measure their mental fitness.”
Talk Club’s support network appears in a number of forms, from peer to peer ‘Talk and Listen’ groups to physical activity sessions and therapy run by qualified practitioners.
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The group also runs business sessions, offering training and support to ensure that mental wellbeing is prioritised and discussed in the workplace.
The organisation was founded in 2019, becoming an official charity in 2021. Starting as a small group in Southville, it now works with organisations and individuals all around the country.
For more information about Talk Club, visit talkclub.org.
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