So it is the start of Mental Health awareness week and we thought we would do something different each day. So the first daily activity is to encourage you to listen to the Sons of Anxiety podcast – part 1 CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
an then we have a daily photo challenge – share your pictures on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/mhmotorbike
We are really excited to be doing a guest speaker talk to IAM Roadsmart Solent on Tuesday 11th May at 7pm.
The work of IAM RoadSmart is vitally important in creating safer riders both from a technical and observational point of view. IAM RoadSmart makes better riders and drivers. As well as training and education, they provide advice and publish research into driver and rider behaviour. Mental Health Motorbike are developing a strategic partnership with IAM RoadSmart nationally and are really keen to promote the benefits within our network.
We will be doing a feature on this new partnership over the next few weeks. watch this space. In the meantime to find out more about IAM RoadSmart visit https://www.iamroadsmart.com
These are the next two courses for May and June, 2021. To book a place send an email to: courses@mhmotorbike.com
Since the creation of Mental Health Motorbike at the beginning of 2020 a lot has happened, not least a global pandemic. We were forced to concentrate our efforts online and saw a massive growth in our support community as the lockdowns had a heavy toll on the public’s mental health.
With some optimism we pushed on with our desire to get out into the real world to raise awareness of suicide rates of bikers and a primary goal of having a trained Mental Health First Aider from the motorcycle community in every town and city across the UK. Our aim was to ride the extent of the UK, over 3000 miles, accompanied along the way with nominated baton carriers. The GPS tracked baton would be handed from rider to rider as we visited as many venues as possible along the way.
With all the planning completed we finally awaited the final roadmap out of the current lockdown. Having reviewed this and after many hours of discussion we feel that it would not be possible to complete the ride in the original timeframe while adhering to the guidelines. Furthermore, we would not be able to realise the original vision of community involvement.
It is on this basis that Mental Health Motorbike has made the hard decision to postpone the ride until 2022.
We will continue to reach out the community throughout 2021 not least with our ambassador presence at every stage of the Bennett’s British Superbike season and with attendance at as many motorcycle events such as the Overland Festival.
Our primary goal remains to train as many MHFA volunteers as possible and this in turn will help us build capacity to provide the much-required support to the motorcycle community and beyond.
We acknowledge and thank you for your continued support that has allowed us in the last year alone to achieve:
And, most importantly…
The support of 57 members who were at the point of suicide but are still with us today.
So yesterday we were on Chaos TV – watch the show and find out more about our work. there was a rumour Weeble was naked waist down apart from his Crocs – doesn’t ‘bare’ (excuse the pun) thinking about!!!
This programme has been design by Mental Health Motorbike team member Martin Smith with unique and original drawings from Weebles World. It features Weeble and Dog and aims to get you fit, ready for getting back out onto your bike safely.
Remember to read the instructions first and read the legal bits. Please avoid doing this if you are medically unwell. Enjoy and we look forward to seeing you fit back into your leathers in a few weeks. Send us your stories…
