{"id":40838,"date":"2025-09-24T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40838\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:54:08","slug":"timmy-mallett-fronts-mens-mental-health-bench-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/40838\/","title":{"rendered":"Timmy Mallett fronts men&#8217;s mental health bench campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Benches to encourage men to talk more about their mental health are being built as part of a campaign fronted by Timmy Mallett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The Mission: Shoulder to Shoulder campaign aims to build 100 &#8220;buddy benches&#8221;, which will be installed across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">One of the benches has been installed in Gillingham, Kent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">According to the campaign, a single bench can spark more than 2,000 conversations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Mallett, known for his role on the Wide Awake Club and its spin-off, Wacaday, helped make one of the first benches as part of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Around a fifth of adult men in England have a common mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression, yet despite mental health challenges, men are significantly less likely to seek psychological support,&#8221; a campaign spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;Just over a third, 36%, of NHS referrals for talking therapies are for men.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benches to encourage men to talk more about their mental health are being built as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-40838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}