In Wiltshire, people are also turning to climbing to improve their mental health. <\/p>\n
The Arc, opened in Chippenham in 2022 at a cost of \u00a32.9m, was one of the first climbing centres in the UK to be built from the ground-up, rather than adapted from an existing space. <\/p>\n
Two climbers who use The Arc have set up a men’s health group who meet every Thursday evening. <\/p>\n
One of the group’s founders, Gary Bayliss from Corsham, said for him climbing is “like an escape”.<\/p>\n
He started the group eight months ago with friend Ryan Cross after they both found climbing helped with their own mental health struggles. <\/p>\n
Mr Bayliss said the idea behind the group was to make it a “non-pressured environment” where people didn’t feel like they “had to talk, or that they were going to be asked questions”.<\/p>\n
He added that men have come to the group for a variety of reasons some looking for to help “deal with anxiety, when they have struggled to leave the house”. <\/p>\n
The next step for the group to build relationships with local mental health charities, Mr Bayliss said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Wiltshire, people are also turning to climbing to improve their mental health. The Arc, opened in Chippenham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-81673","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\/81673","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=81673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}