{"id":191587,"date":"2025-10-10T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191587\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:43:11","slug":"echo-reporter-chris-launches-latest-mental-health-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/191587\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo reporter Chris launches latest mental health challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Chris \u2013 who has raised more than \u00a3180,000 for charity \u2013 covers Southend United for the paper.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And his latest charity mission is heavily linked to his day job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFor every goal scored in a National League weekend I\u2019m going to be running a kilometre that week,\u201d explained Chris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe first weekend saw 27 goals so that means 27 kilometres and that will continue for the rest of the month depending on how many goals get scored.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/page\/rallytogether?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SPONSOR CHRIS FOR HIS CHALLENGE HERE<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Goals scored by the Shrimpers will be doubled as part of the challenge while any netted by Gus Scott-Morriss will mean an additional 10k for Chris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And Chris stressed he had set up the task to support a cause close to his heart.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSo many people suffer with their mental health, especially men so it\u2019s important to try and do what we can to make them realise they\u2019re not alone,\u201d said Chris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI struggle with my mental health so it\u2019s close to my heart and I\u2019m keen to do whatever I can.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAll money raised will go to the Mind of the Student charity but I\u2019m also keen to give as many different groups and organisations publicity as well so please get in touch.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To contact Chris email chris.phillips@newsquest.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris \u2013 who has raised more than \u00a3180,000 for charity \u2013 covers Southend United for the paper. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-191587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}