Dudley Dad Expands Men’s Mental Health Charity to Storage Giant Kingswinford

We are delighted to welcome the men’s mental health and suicide prevention charity, Tough Enough To Care, to a Storage Giant self-storage facility in Kingswinford. 

Stuart Bratt set up the charity after losing two of his best friends from separate friendship groups to suicide within four days of each other. And what began as a Facebook support group for men with mental health concerns snowballed into the charity it is today.  

“What we’re trying to do now is to break that stigma, and to break the cycle of one, if you don’t understand it, you can still talk about it, and two, if you do understand it and know how bad it is, you don’t have to suffer alone. We’re not telling people you have to go to the doctors straight away, come to one of our peer-support groups because they’re not clinical, it’s just a way of talking to people and understanding other people are going through the same thing”

The former Industrial Engineer spent seven years in the RAF as a Weapons Technician before recently making the leap to run the charity full-time. Since starting the charity, Stuart has completed several mental health courses and is now an instructor in mental health first aid, with his team at Tough Enough To Care working with organisations up and down the country to ensure that there is always somewhere to signpost men who get in touch. 

Stuart who had been storing the charity’s event kit and merchandise in his garage for the past three years has now set up a unit in the Storage Giant Kingswinford branch, which houses a mix of self-storage clients, SMEs and charities. The charity uses the locker unit for added ease and convenience when traveling around for meetings, workshops, and other engagements. 

The charity has plans to open a further six Tough Enough To Care peer support groups throughout the summer on top of the four running currently in the Midlands, Derby and Basingstoke. 

Simon Williams, CEO of Storage Giant, said “The stigma surrounding men’s mental health is still a huge problem in the UK, and charities and organisations like Tough Enough To Care are doing amazing work to address the issues and change the conversation. We look after a number of charitable groups across the Storage Giant Estate, which, along with SMEs, find our flexible terms helpful to their work. We’re proud to be able to support Stuart and his charity, and look forward to seeing Tough Enough To Care make even more of a difference.”

“The stigma surrounding men’s mental health is still a huge problem in the UK, and charities and organisations like Tough Enough To Care are doing amazing work to address the issues and change the conversation. We look after a number of charitable groups across the Storage Giant Estate, which, along with SMEs, find our flexible terms helpful to their work. We’re proud to be able to support Stuart and his charity, and look forward to seeing Tough Enough To Care make even more of a difference“.

Simon Williams, CEO of Storage Giant

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To access mental health support visit Tough Enough To Care at:
https://toughenoughtocare.help/