08/09/2025
That's me there, Richie, daydreaming about the potential of
Time for updates as we approach our first year since trading and reinvesting to our communities on what we've done and what we're going to do next.
Firstly, just tag one man in the comments or share this post to get one more man to follow us.
EMC CIC PLAN UPDATE
Phase 1:
✅️Established Every Man Can CIC and started pilot programmes and collabs. Exciting first phase brought us amazing founding director offerings establishing our trading social enterprise. That included, for everyone, a mental strength podcast and podcast services, sauna therapies and training in our communities to to directly fund our growth. With help from Northern Safety Ltd for first aid training as well as ongoing collabs with Green Seas Yoga, Be Still - for mind and body CIC, Wyke Lodges & Touring Caravans, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, and more.
✅️ Invested in conflict prevention training sessions with Amanda Chalmers, a lived experience Speakers programme with Matt Homan as well as issuing small donation support grants to local men's programmes Men's Pie Club and The Link Charitable Trust mens group and into our own beneficiary savings pot.
🫂😊🙏Thanks to every single one of you who has supported us in so many different ways from our evaluative research partnerships led by the amazing Shelina Visram, to our founding directors, to our first little team of volunteers and creators, and our paying customers who have helped directly fund our growth and ability to support others, often photographed and filmed on his own time by Mr Matt Stirland .
It's been hard work and has included personal and huge professional challenges along the way and it's involved so many positive interactions, I cannot list them all. Thank you, to you all. You all taught me something new. ❤️🤠
Next up.
Phase 2 and 3
➡️Every Man Can awareness campaign to join the dots with men's health activity partners already doing their thing across Tees Valley.
➡️We will create, from our research insights, a Tees Valley Mens Health Network, a connected and varied offer for men.
➡️We'll follow the evaluative research from our own previous BoroManCan evaluation to lead our priorities.
➡️We will then get about working with, listening to, connecting and empowering change-ready men and boys to those who can help them find what works for them, before the s**t hits the fan in their lives, with their minds, bodies and relationships.
➡️ Beyond that, well maybe you, the person reading this have an idea to develop alongside our own longer term plans.
Get in touch with us at
Every Man Can to donate, sponsor, add value to your own programmes, services and work with us and our services to help more men, do better. And maybe, just maybe we get noticed or funded by organisations like who have basically nailed it where we can smash it at the Teesside level.
Let's keep moving.
EVERY MAN CAN, FOR MEN TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH AND FIND WHAT WORKS FOR YOU.
