{"id":779446,"date":"2026-07-23T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:28:08","slug":"cheltenham-mens-mental-health-chat-grows-into-uk-wide-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779446\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham men&#8217;s mental health chat grows into UK-wide lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the group grew in size, the main chat started to become overloaded, and people&#8217;s messages were sometimes going unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To combat this, Farmer and his team of a few volunteers created interest-based sub-chats for men to engage in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We found men open up in different ways, through football, wrestling, boxing and others,&#8221; Farmer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group is now a registered Community Interest Company (CIC), and was designed to help all men, not just those who feel comfortable enough to message. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a twice-weekly poll, where people can indicate how they are feeling. Anyone who is feeling low will get a message from a member of the admin team to check in,&#8221; Farmer added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is also an open-door policy which allows men to come and go from the group as they please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the group grew in size, the main chat started to become overloaded, and people&#8217;s messages were sometimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-779446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}