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CALM Helpline Open
From 2nd March 2008
0800 58 58 58
Sat to Tues: 5pm – Midnight
every week of the year
HIT A WALL, NEED TO TALK?
The CALM helpline will relaunch on 2nd March. Calls are free (from landlines), confidential and anonymous. Professions will be available to talk through problems, listen, and offer information and advice. Translation facilities are available on request and the minicom number is 0800 027 29 82.
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The Xbox had Died! Long Live the Xbox!
Volatile Train - July 20th 2010
The trials and tribulations of being an Xbox 360 owner.
Jobs For The Boys
Ben Stroud - 16 July 2010
"Male graduates are finding it harder and harder to find meaningful work post-university. This is a pretty shocking statistic, and a snapshot of a society that seems more and more to be failing the young men that it is so quick to demonise as the source of all its ills."
The Rat Race Adventure - 25/26 September
Martin Cordiner - 15 July 2010
Taking adventure sports out of the wilderness and putting them onto the streets of London, the Rat Race is a totally unique adventure challenge in which a team of 2 people race in a multi-activity test of endurance, skills and guts. It's a test of team work whilst at the same time being hugely fun! CALM has guaranteed places for the Mean Streets Challenge.
Unvarnished or unfair?
Ben Stroud - 21 June 2010
"With the rise in cyber-bullying amongst school children, and the water-cooler toxic culture of the workplace, is giving people the option to anonymously slate their peers or their boss really such a good idea?"
Reducing Suicide Summit 2010 – From aspirations to action...
Simon Howes - Merseyside CALM co-ordinator
The award-winning CALM campaign is hosting a sub regional, half-day conference on behalf of the Cheshire & Merseyside Suicide Reduction Network in September. The focus of the event will be on developing a pro-active, multi-agency approach to suicide reduction.
What I think about when I think about football
Martin Cordiner - 9 June 2010
Presumably it will not have escaped your attention that the World Cup starts on Friday. This is the point at which some will go mad with ecstasy and some will just get mad. I belong to the former but this article is about the latter (kind of).
Friday night is gig night
Martin Cordiner - 7 June 2010
On Friday an event called Northern Lights is being held at Paramount at Centre Point in London order to raise mental health awareness and money for charities Equilibrium and CALM.
DJs + magician = happy fun time.
London 10K - last chance!
Martin Cordiner - 7 June 2010
We've places left for the London 10K. Go on, you know you want to.....
Happy birthday Skiddle!
Martin Cordiner - 1 May 2010
And they're giving you a present. Isn't that nice?
UK music rolls out the red carpet for CALM
Martin Cordiner - 15 April 2010
Hot on the heels of the comedy industry's support for CALM, the music sector is throwing their weight behind us and our campaign to reduce suicide among young men, with the establishment of a new board of industry big-hitters.
Infidel premiere raises cash for CALM
Martin Cordiner - 13 April 2010
CALM was there to mingle with the stars and to gratefully accept the generous donations offered by the Great British public.
Getting the better of anxiety
Mark Hendy - 12 April 2010
I presumed for years that I was simply a nervous person. I was aware that anxiety is a part of life – everyone experiences it, right? The feeling you have before you take an exam, or have to make an important phone call. The slight dizziness or butterflies before going on a date. Your heart beat speeds up, you get the sweats – you get nervous. But then the event happens, and you get through it.
Run for CALM! Manchester 10K
Martin Cordiner - 19 March 2010
We have just 7 places left for the Manchester 10k on May 16, an old favourite on the CALM running calendar.
Join our team running their socks off for CALM. Only 2 weeks left to register, so get in touch now!
Contact Kim@thecalmzone.net
Lads mags and me
Martin Cordiner - 9 Mar 2010
"These magazines sell a lifestyle with considerable vigour but refuse to accept that said lifestyle may have unforeseen negative effects on men. Yes, men. Amidst the usual furore about the objectification of women there is STILL no real talk of the restrictive box these magazines put men into, and the pressure and confusion of not conforming."
CALM Joins Twitterati
Lindsey Bezzina - 8 Mar 2010
CALM joins Twitterati massive. FOLLOW US and we'll follow you.
CALM helpline would NOT breach confidentiality of users of our service
Jane Powell, CALM Director
Youth Helplines Network comments on the National Bullying Helpline’s breach of caller confidentiality:
McQueen
Statement from Director, Jane Powell
Statement on death of Alexander McQueen from Jane Powell - Director of CALM, UK's leading charity campaigning against male suicide
CALM Rock n Roll Raffle
What have Hutchins Guitars, The Holloways, Reverend & The Makers, The Enemy & Kasabian Got in Common?
SKIDDLE PUTS ITS WEIGHT BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY
CALM News Team
The UK’s busiest entertainment website has chosen the Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M) as its charity of 2010.
Are You a Merseyside Company?
Business after hours event with CALM - - in conjunction with with Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.
Join us for a special event held at Parr Street’s Studio 2, the studio where Coldplay, Take That, Echo & The Bunnymen and many others recorded. Now converted into an award winning bar / venue, CALM will be hosting an evening for anyone who employs men aged 15-35 and beyond.
Run with Claire!
Martin Cordiner
TV presenter Claire Anstey is putting on her running shoes for CALM and taking on the challenge of a Marathon. We are very impressed! She would like to head a CALM team.
Do you see where we're going with this?
Rock 'n' Roll Raffle! WINNERS!
Simon Howes
Thank you everyone for buying a ticket or 2, we raised over £600 for CALM !!!
Want to know if who won? Find out here...
Twist n Pout & K'fuffle get K'festive!
Simon Howes
Who'd have thought raising cash and awareness could be such a party?!!
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Donna-Louise Bishop
"Post Traumatic Stress. You'd be forgiven for thinking that only soldiers suffer from PTSD, but in fact anyone can be caught out..."
We've got a banging new E-store
Lindsey Bezzina
Come on people, we all live in the real world - instead of buying someone another worthless piece of shit for their next birthday/anniversary/engagement/baby shower/stag do - why not buy them something that really means something.
Making a comeback: What to do if you’re excluded.
Tom Sawbridge
10 tips to turning things round after a fixed term exclusion or permanent exclusion...
Britain’s young and excluded: jumped or pushed?
Tom Sawbridge
This student and others argue the school is ‘against them’. In one sense they’re right: there is a point at which the Headteacher makes the executive decision they want a student out. Headteachers then build up evidence to support their case and put it in front of Governors who decide to uphold or reject the permanent exclusion of a student.
Exclusion - A Boys Problem...
Tom Sawbridge
Boys find themselves criticised at every step and their improvements not recognised; one student summarised his problems in school – “I get in trouble no matter what; trouble just seems to follow me around the school.” Many feel they are at the whim of their teacher’s perceptions; in such an unfair world, some boys do not feel responsible for and in control of their own destiny.
No to School. Yes to Education.
Tom Sawbridge
There are alternative centres of mainstream education where you can get almost as many GCSEs as at mainstream schools. And it’s in an environment which is more relaxed and not full of rules.
It Can Happen to Anyone
Anon
I came within half an hour of ending my life but instead of being dead, I’m here to tell you this story. Alive and well.
C.A.L.M in 60 Seconds: Simon Howes
Tom Sawbridge
Venturing Scouse-side on his trip to the North-West, our London journalist Tom Sawbridge meets Simon Howes, C.A.L.M coordinator for the Merseyside CALMzone.
Dealing with Debt – Your Options
Mark Davis
Many people assume that debt is a financial problem alone, often with little sympathy. This is not the case, debt is as much of a social problem as it a financial problem. Due to the seriousness of debt and the impact it can have on your life it is extremely important that you seek advice. By seeking advice early you will have more options available to you, be able to deal with your debt sooner and rid of the burden quicker
The Bankruptcy Investigation
Mark Davis
As a small number of us know all too well, bankruptcy is a legal process that can free us of debts that we are unable to repay. For many people it is a very daunting experience. This article elucidates the role of the Official Receiver and the uncertainty that surrounds this stage of the bankruptcy process.
The Correlation Between Unhappiness and Unemployment is a Stark One
Tom Sawbridge
According to last week's papers Britain officially delved into recession and if you are to believe a recent survey to come out of the Prince’s Trust, you’re almost twice as likely to be unhappy if you’re unemployed. Tom Sawbridge explores and elucidates the current job market for young men and hopefully, the to road to a happier life.
How has CALM's helpline helped you?
If you've used the CALM helpline over the past few years, can give us some feedback? Your anonymity and confidentiality will be protected, and it will help us secure the funds to continue. Because getting the funding to support the phoneline is something we struggle with every day.
Surviving at 15
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Its only now when I sit back and realise the importance of talking when you have a problem, I am 15, and a father of a little girl, and beginning to think my life is settling. But that hasn't happened on it's own, it's been through the help of other people, if I hadn't accepted the help of others then I probably wouldn't be who I am now.