{"id":281388,"date":"2025-11-24T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281388\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:31:13","slug":"tvs-yorkshire-vet-julian-norton-backing-mental-health-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281388\/","title":{"rendered":"TV&#8217;s Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton backing mental health campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skaith recently visited York Men&#8217;s Shed, a project in the city set up to offer men somewhere to get together, learn new skills and open up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Doherty said he was encouraged to join the project by his wife after he retired and the couple moved to York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s rewarding &#8211; if you can help somebody it gives you both a boost,&#8221; Mr Doherty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuart Crossland said he joined the project because he needed &#8220;something to do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t stay in the house staring at four walls,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mental health didn&#8217;t exist when I was young, you just had to get on with it. Now you can speak to anyone &#8211; it&#8217;s important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly2d7yp7n3o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking in July,<\/a> Lynne James, manager of York-based mental health charity Mainstay, said she supported the allocation of funding but had &#8220;reservations&#8221; about how it would be distributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within rural communities, I think it&#8217;s going to be more difficult,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skaith recently visited York Men&#8217;s Shed, a project in the city set up to offer men somewhere to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-281388","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\/281388","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=281388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}