Mental Health Motorbike (MHMB) is a beacon of support within the UK motorbiking community. It addresses the critical need for mental health awareness and assistance among bikers, who are a high-risk group often receiving little or no formal support.
However, they are also in an extraordinary and unique situation, whereby just having a bike enables you to become a community with your regular bike crew, or quite often with total strangers, in the strangest of places, and we know we have vast numbers of bikers in Wrexham and surrounding areas. Recognizing the unique bond and camaraderie that biking fosters between people, the charity uses this solidarity to encourage bikers to look out for one another, particularly with the prevalence of mental health.
Listen and Reassure
One way the charity does this is to encourage bikers to become Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) and offer this training to them. The training equips individuals not to become therapists but to listen, reassure, and respond, even in a crisis—and potentially stop it from happening.
The initiative aims to embed Mental Health First Aiders within every biking group across the UK, fostering an environment where mental health is openly discussed, thereby reducing the risk of suicide within the biking community.
The MHMB website is a comprehensive resource detailing the charity’s services, support mechanisms, emergency assistance, and training course schedules. The charity offers MHFA training at a significantly reduced cost as a commitment to making mental health support accessible and prevalent among bikers, irrespective of their engine size or role within the biking world.
After the training, you would be welcome to join North Wales volunteers to promote the charity and the support available for bikers. No matter what engine size you have! Find out more at mhmotorbike.com.
When life gets tough, we are here to listen, to support, to ride.
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