Members of a men’s sea swimming group say the activity encourages them to open up and helps their mental health.<\/p>\n
Trunks and Hunks has grown to hundreds of members after Joe Wills started the group in Eastbourne in 2025.<\/p>\n
“Men are very standoffish and we keep our cards close to our chest,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“But we found that when we went in the sea, we did something together that brought us closer together.”<\/p>\n
Wills said Trunks and Hunks aimed to provide connection and support for those who joined the twice-weekly sessions.<\/p>\n
He started the group after experiencing his own problems with alcohol and mental health.<\/p>\n
“Whenever I had a problem, I would take it to the pub or the betting shop and after a while, after many consequences, it was really destroying me,” Wills said.<\/p>\n
“So I thought ‘do you know what, maybe there’s other guys like me out there who don’t know any different, so why don’t I try and start a men’s group’.”<\/p>\n
Trunks and Hunks expanded to cover three locations on the East Sussex coast, launching further sessions in Hastings and Seaford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of a men’s sea swimming group say the activity encourages them to open up and helps their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":["post-604922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}