Checkmate: A Men’s Mental Health Hub

Class turnout tonight for football. 👏

Hard work, competitive and some decent football played.

Always good to see some new faces getting involved as well. Well done lads, same again next week! ⚽️💪

What a day up Buttermere! 🏔️

10 miles of some unreal scenery, climbing over Red Pike, High Stile and High Crag before making our way back around for a well earned dip in the lake 🌊

Great company, plenty of laughs and an absolutely class day out.

Unreal lads, already looking forward to the next one! 💪

What a brilliant weekend of walking and talking. 🚶 🌊

It’s honestly amazing to see the benefit getting out for a walk and abit of crack can do for people.

Yesterday under The Conscious Self banner we walked along the cliffs at Seaham and had a picnic and bonfire on the beach. Meeting new people with shared interests.

Today we were at Richmond for a river walk, cold dip and a bbq. Really good to see faces of new and old and talking about life in a positive way.

Just a little message for anyone who needs to hear it.

Life is way too short to keep living a miserable existence, stop caring what people might think and live the life you want to live. Do the basics, Surround your self with better people, eat better food, exercise and your life will go from 0 to 100 very fast. Keep going and show up each day. Compound every thing that is good in life and before you know it your on the path to becoming a much healthier, happier and more confident person. 🙏

Theres a couple of walks on this weekend, the first walk is on Friday and is John Potts first event as a community leader for The Conscious Self.

🌅 Friday 6pm Seaham Noses Point car park (next to Blast Beach)

We’ll head along the cliffs for a relaxed circular walk (around 1 hour), then make our way down to the beach for a bonfire, a bit of crack and to chill while watching the sun set 🔥

Bring a picnic, a flask and come along for a good evening outdoors. Everyone welcome, men and women 👍

🌿 Saturday morning we’re heading down to Richmond for a walk and talk, followed by a dip in the river and a riverside bbq on us 🔥

Everyone is welcome, so bring your family and come along for a great morning outdoors. We’ll meet at the car park in the Market Place 👍

Absolutely fantastic achievement today Hannah Bowron has completed her skydive! She has jumped from 14,000ft which takes bags of bravery for anyone to do, A massive well done from all us at Checkmate👏

Hannah has also raised £500! We couldn’t be more grateful that she has chosen us to raise money for, this goes an incredibly long way and we couldn’t appreciate her more. here are some photos of her amazing accomplishment! Some girl Hannah!💪

Our weekly kick about last night ⚽️

Class game with the lads, good crack and a close score line.

If anyone wants to join in with any of our activities please drop us a message and we will add you into the the WhatsApp community.

There’s Loads of event happening in the next few weeks along with our regular weekly events.

Starting the week strong with the Spenny Striders! 🏃

20 minutes out, 20 minutes back. This is a great way to keep it a group run and support each other along the way!❤️

In 8 weeks time 4 of our lads are running the Great North Run and are raising money for Checkmate. This money goes into putting on days out and weekly events that helps men in our area when they could need it most.

Here is the link below, we are very grateful to each and every person who donates!🫶

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/checkmatehub?utm_medium=CF&utm_source=WA

Another quality morning with the lads. 👏

A cracking game against the Volti , played in the right spirit from start to finish with some excellent football on show from both sides.

Massive thanks to the Volti for the game and the great run out. Best of luck for the season! ⚽💙

Summer nights playing football with a good group of lads is sometimes all you need to make your day a good one!👌

Our Wednesday night football will be back on every Week at meadowfield sports centre now the World Cup has come to an end.

We love to see new people to turn up each week, be one of them next week! 🙌

An hour of tennis tonight 🎾

I don’t think we will win Wimbledon anytime soon 🤣but we had a go and done something abit different.

We will Definitely be playing more often after tonight, great game.