River Hawkins is an actor, founder and CEO of HUMEN, a UK based charity that offers free, anonymous, judgement free and non clinical spaces for men to talk.

The charity is the result of River’s own story; a story of struggle, pain and being let down by an outdated and underfunded healthcare system.

It’s also a journey of transformation, one of global ambition and of true advocacy – not just through talk, but through real change.

Join the journey here: wearehumen.org

And donate to HUMEN

Follow HUMEN at @humenorg and TheTinMen at @thetinmen

Sources discussed, in order:

[1] 3,600 refuge beds for women and twenty beds for men – The Independent (correction, these are figures for England, not the UK) 

[2] 76% of UK suicides are men – The CALM Zone

[3] Men rapidly losing friends – Survey Centre on American Life

[4] Mark Green  – Why calling it 'Toxic Masculinity' Isn't Helping

[5] Adverse Childhood Experience and Incarceration - The Independent

[6] Adult Psychiatric Outcomes of Bullying - Psycnewsdaily

[7] 96% of sexual offences against men goes unreported – The BBC  

[8] The Sexual Offences Act – Legislation.gov.uk

[9] 'Forced to Penetrate' rape statistics – Lara Stemple, The Atlantic, NCVS, (correction, it's 38% of sexual violence victims are men, not 37%)

[10] The Duluth Model – theduluthmodel.org

[11] 91% of middle aged men who took their own life, had sought help – University of Manchester (correction, this is a separate study to Amy Chandler's)

[12] Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men – Amy Chandler 

[13] Men make up 88% of homeless deaths in the UK – Office for National Statistics 

[14] Boys are twice as likely to be behind in school – BBC

[15] Men die younger in every country on earth – Harvard Medical School 

[16] Why men quit therapy (AUS) – American Journal of Men's health

Music: Art of Silence by Uniq