Gillingham woman to hold charity event for men's mental health
"Losing someone when we could have made a change, and we could have helped them, and the society that we live in could've helped, has had a big, big impact on me," she told Stephen Brown on BBC Radio Kent's evening show.Ms Davies said that she first had the idea to host an event when having a drink at the Tudor Rose."I was having a cider and I looked at my friend Joanne and said, 'I want to do a charity event'. She [Joanna] said, 'do it'."From there, Ms Davies contacted the pub landlady, who agreed to let her use the space.Alongside North Kent Mind, the event will also raise funds for the suicide prevention initiative Baton of Hope, MenTalk Health Sittingbourne and a mental health support group for men in Swale.According to a research briefing presented to the House of Commons earlier this year, men are three times more likely to take their own lives than women.For Ms Davies, the statistics made raising awareness more important than ever.She added: "Losing anybody in your lifetime is hard, but losing people because of the things that they couldn't talk about [is especially so]."
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