Welcome to my blog, my name is Paul ‘Oxo’ Oxborough and I’m one of the founders of the charity which was established in March 2020. This blog aims to tell day to day stories of my work with Mental Health Motorbike. I will document this via a series of virtual tours which allow you to be emersed into some of the locations I visit.
I will take you to some of our events, presentations, meetings and rideouts. Through creative use of 360 cameras you will be able to see photos, listen to videos, access audio and scroll around to find exciting things hidden in the virtual tours. Let me know if you like these by leaving a comment and tell us if you like us to feature an event we attend.
Oxo's Blog
Darley Moor Bike Night – Derbyshire
Sometimes it's the simple things in life that make you really happy, our new trustee Tom has enabled me to be able to blog from my phone! I've been wanting to do this for some while but I just couldn't get it to work. The awesome Dragon Back RIDERS Group  It was...
A trip to Kent for an appointment with the Police – 15/4/25
There is something very exciting knowing you've got a guarenteed 8 hours riding time on your motorbike. I was off to Kent to do a presentation with Mandy Stephens (one of our Trustees) and Bob Cannell (a MHMB volunteer) to the country's best and most skilled police...
Friday Thoughts – 10/4/25
We are midway through April 2025. Does anybody else think this year is going exceptionally quick? I'm struggling to fit everything in to it, important stuff like contacting family, doing DIY jobs on the house, thinking of my own fitness. This blog post is about me...
Lakeland Wildlife Oasis Hub Launch – March 2025
It was dry and having followed the weather forecast at the start of the week believe me this was a bonus. My journey started at 5am and I was very excited to be heading out on the bike. What I wasn't prepared for was the temperature 4 degrees! Freezing!!! Fortunately...
Donna Procter Cheque Donation – March 2025
It has been a long week - back from Poland on the Sunday night straight into a very busy week catching up with loads of messages and team members. I probably do need to have a week off in the sun to recharge - Poland was eactly a rest despite it being great fun! it...
Poland – March 2025
There is always a sense of irrational anxiety when I'm about to leave for another big international project. A few years ago I was doing quite a lot of these so I was jumping on aeroplanes like getting a taxi. Normally I get a hotel the night before a flight to make...
A 5 Year Journey…
I remember the sense of anticipation five years ago on the 1st of March 2020 when we decided this was going to be the day we launched Mental Health Motorbike. I'd spent the previous few months intensively working with Jay Lucas my friend (and the charity’s other...
A dip back into international work.
As many of you know a big part of my day job over the years has been international youth education, but since setting up the charity this has been much reduced. I've really missed the work but not the travelling and hotels. On the 6th of March I will be flying to...
Straightliners Event – Elvington Airfield – 23/2/25
It is a real privilidge to be invited into the world of people we have supported. Si and Janine are a couple who have needed some of our support and have then gone on to be good friends of the charity promoting our work. When we had the opportunity to attend this...
Paul Oxborough
One of the two founders of the Charity I spend most of my time these days managing charity affairs with a bit of international youth development work thrown in. I love walking, the great outdoors, I live and breath motorbikes and my family.