Sean & Burnsy’s Marathon For ANDYSMANCLUB

(Disclaimer a lot of the time when you see people raising money for charity being forced into your feed, it comes across contrived and self-aggrandising… we’re running a marathon first and foremost because we want to run a marathon!)

Leeds Marathon (Rob Burrow)

Sunday 11th May 2025

That being said when we took the time to think about it, the more it made sense to raise money and so this is why we chose ANDYSMANCLUB…

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Sean & Burnsy’s Marathon For ANDYSMANCLUB

ANDYSMANCLUB are a men’s suicide prevention charity, offering free-to-attend peer-to-peer support groups across the United Kingdom and online. We want to end the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and help men through the power of conversation. #ITSOKAYTOTALK’

I think mental health has always been a big thing at the level of the individual as we’re all in our own heads too much from time to time…

(I’m sat here writing this thinking of a million different ways I could be getting this misconstrued and come across in various ways but here goes!)

Whether that is that negative voice in your head telling you, you aren’t good enough or having the same reinforced back to you by somebody else!

I think the problem with lads is there’s no blueprint to how they should be or act, it only takes a look on TikTok (theguywiththelist) that shows over 814 different ‘icks’ to date that girls have submitted about men from “showering bare foot” to “getting hit by a car” and fair enough some of them are quite funny!

That being said I do think being perpetually told you aren’t worthy as a fella if you aren’t earning 6 figures or driving the 25 plate BMW is only the tip of the iceberg and the standards and expectations inflicted by society can be confusing for young men and boys who are trying to navigate those expectations without being dragged into the bottomless pit of nihilism where they feel that useless, helpless and alone that they think the only good thing left to do is to take their life.

We need to have someone or something to aim for, we need better role models and better goals to reach, we need people who encourage the best in us, we need people to be told it’s necessary to be a forthright force stepping forwards into the world irrespective of the struggles they may encounter….

Most importantly we need you to know, it’s okay to talk.

Thanks for all the support, any donations will be hugely appreciated

Sean & Burnsy

•Mental health is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45

•Males continued to account for around three-quarters of suicide deaths registered in 2023 (4,506 male deaths; 1,563 female deaths), a trend seen since the mid-1990s.

• in 2022, 1,796 young people under the age of 35 took their own lives in the UK. Around three-quarters of them were boys or young men. On average, around five young people take their lives each day. Over 200 teenagers are lost to suicide every year.”

•74% of all suicides in the UK involve men

•Men are 3x more likely to die by suicide in the UK

•Men report lower levels of life satisfaction than women according to the Government’s national wellbeing survey.

•Only 36% of referrals to the United Kingdom National Health Service for talk therapy are for men.