Snowdon Walk – In memory of Craig Cardwell

We are excited to announce our first ever HIMvisible Golf Day. This event is a full day and night of golf, prizes, food, drink and friendly competition all in aid of raising funds for HIMvisible. We are a men’s mental health group that supports the invisible struggles of men within our home town of St Helens. Join us on “World Suicide Prevention Day” Friday 10th September at Merseyside Valley Golf Club as an individual player or a team of four and enjoy: (LIMITED PLACES STILL AVAILABLE SO GET IN TOUCH TO SECURE YOUR PLACE) 🥓Registration with bacon butties, tea and coffee ⛳️ 18 hole round of golf 🍻Refreshments whilst playing 🏌️‍♂️ Nearest Pin and Longest Drive competitions 🏌️‍♀️ Beat the Pro parr 3 challenge 🥘Home cooked curry with table games 🎫 Raffle and auction with prizes you can't buy anywhere else 🎁Prize presentation for all winners on the day. 💼 HIMvisible goody bag and brochure for all players This is the perfect opportunity to test your game amongst your friends and colleagues and enjoy a round of golf. As a voluntary organisation we’d like to thank those already involved to sponsor this event without you we wouldn’t be able to do this. 🙏 FC St Helens The Starting Gate MK Electrical Supplies Ltd Mersey Valley Golf & Country Club HeatingNow supplies ltd Watson & Co barbers Louis William Jewellers LIMA Network LTJ Personal Fitness Mally Kitchen Indoor Clubhouse & Graham Ramsey In the coming weeks we will be showcasing the amazing prizes that you could win during the day thanks to local businesses. If you would like to sponsor this event or kindly donate any prizes, please contact us. LET’S MAKE THIS A DAY TO REMEMBER! To confirm your place, please email your details to: info@himvisible.co.uk or message our Facebook page @TeeUpAndTalk

We're proud to announce we've been asked to sponsor the back of a shirt for a newly formed rugby league club for the 2020 season.....Liverpool St Helens Rugby League Club!!! Thanks to Martyn Griffiths a member of the Brotherhood who is part of the management team approached us. He asked if we would like to do this and to say we're humbled and excited is an understatement. This is the start of great times for 2020!! As part of the launch of the new club they are selling squares to local businesses for £25 each, there are 40 in total and the winners will go into a prize draw. TWO lucky winners will be the named sponsors of the Club Leisurewear and ONE further to be a player sponsor for their chosen player. To find our more visit their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LSHRL/ The girls at HIMvisibelle have agreed to sponsor a square. #TogetherWeAreStronger #LocalRugby #ProudSponsors

We ran a festive competition on Facebook and Twitter between 18th-20 December to get our social media message from Santa out by asking our social networks to like our pages and sharing his message to win an #Excitable Edgar. For those who don't know he was this years Christmas mascot from the John Lewis TV advert. As the song says "It's the most wonderful time of the year", but Christmas for some is the worse time of year due to missing loved ones and loneliness. We at HIMvisible and HIMvisibelle wanted to get our loyal followers to spread Santa's wishes about mental health and how to stay safe over the festive period. Two winners were picked at random using woobox who were Ann Richardson and Kerry Fairhurst, the picture above is of both of them with their new lovable Edgar soft toys. 💚💚. We hope our winners enjoy the prizes!!

The 19th December started out just like any other day until a message from a stranger out of the blue changed everything. My husband Steve received a message saying that a local lady Julie Hartley had won a competition for the best Christmas dressed log burner, we may be biased but think her fireplace looks stunning! Julie decided that she wanted to donate the £500 winnings to HIMvisible & HIMvisibelle to help support our mental health groups and make a difference in her home town. To say we are still shocked by her generous donation is an understatement, we are run by volunteers and so every penny we raise will go into supporting people in both our mens and womens groups. Thank you Julie it means the world ✊ We will never let go!

We joined in the 7th annual 5k Santa Fun Run on Sunday 8th December sponsored by Wish FM around the fantastic Mesnes Park, Wigan. ​W e joined hundreds of Santa's turning Mesnes Park red to complete the 5k dash route, e veryone who took part was given a fantastic festive Santa suit to complete our 5k in, typically Ste's number was 69 and I split my trousers before we even set off!! On completion of the 5 laps round the park we were given a celebratory Turkey sandwich, mince pie and mulled wine. ​ Our run had entertainment provided by Chris Millow at Wish FM with festive Christmas music! A good family day out which we thoroughly enjoyed and will definitely be doing it again next year.

To say I’m proud of my husband Steve Thornton right now is an understatement, he’s been shortlisted as a finalist for a Pride of St Helens unsung hero award for his hard work and commitment to HIMvisible and his mission to break the stigma about mental health in men. We didn’t even know he’d been nominated so to be a finalist is very humbling and testimony to the hard work and energy he’s given to the cause since he started the charity in May this year. He never got into this to make more money or win awards, he’s just a St Helens raised woolly back who wanted to help men in his town. This is just the start of our journey as a charity and we aim to help as many people as possible! https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/17983824.revealed-pride-st-helens-2019-shortlist/ It’s Ok not to be Ok #WeWillNeverLetGo #Proud

💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️#4CARDY💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚 On 12th October we went on a mission... A mission to highlight Men's Mental Health in memory of my brother. A time where everyone came together to show their ongoing support to HIMvisible and a tribute to my brother. Craig Cardwell. I've never felt so proud in my life🙏 Everyone on this picture got up at 5am in the morning, got ready, did a 2 hour journey down to Snowdon on a Saturday morning. (Maz set off at 1am in the morning, arrived at 8am and did the climb). 💪 Everyone's a legend for your efforts 🙏 To say I'm humbled by the turn out is an understatement. The day was full of emotions, at times bad weather got us but we did it!!! Mental Health Awareness isn't just for a week or two. What we're trying to do is end the stigma and let people know we are here to support. We will always be here. Thank you to everyone that put yesterday aside for this amazing cause. Thank you everyone that's made donations and still doing so. Thank you to Ste & Kate @HIMvisible & @HIMvisibelle Ste - the work you've done to put HIMvisible together, your efforts to create this movement 🙏💚✊ Kate - Thank you for an amazing video tribute . (It's 100% your fault I cried 😭 after watching this) Your work behind the scenes is exceptional and deserve alot of credit which people don't see. I see you 🙏💚✊. Massive thank you to Jo - in association with MindRight 🧠👉. Let's keep this going.. please share and follow HIMvisible & HIMvisibelle. Snowdon it's certainly been emotional. We'll be back in 2020.💪💪💪💪💪 One again. Thank you all 💚🙏❤️ Kind Regards Daniel X #wewillneverletgo #HIMvisible #MensMentalHealth