Men:Minded

A group for men in the Llangollen area, to come together, learn new skills, drink tea, and have a good laugh. We meet once a week on a Wednesday.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/men-minded?utm_medium=CR&utm_source=CL

02/12/2025

It's your last chance to come and make some sawdust with us this year!!

So why not come up to the Hwb and carve a loved one a Christmas trinket, or just release the inner boy and make a pointy stick!

Same time same place as always!

01/12/2025

"We are committed to helping the men of Llangollen and the surrounding areas; one biscuit at a time!"

We are also committed to not taking ourselves too seriously!

We are trying to promote our group, grow, and reach more people in the local area , and your support is invaluable!

Your donations go towards buying better equipment, promoting the group, and most importantly making sure that this service remains free for the men of the local area to attend. Please follow the link to donate. It's also in the bio.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/men-minded?utm_medium=CF&utm_source=CL

If you cant or don't want to support us financially, we totally get that. However we would be most grateful if you could donate a minute of your time and share this post. It helps more than you know!

Huge thanks from everyone at Men:Minded 🙏🙏🙏

28/11/2025

This is what we have coming up in December. If you are interested or know some that would be, get in touch.

men_minded@outlook.com

We will be starting at 18:30

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18/11/2025

We had a fantastic time yesterday morning, learning coppicing skills up at Llangollen community garden. We were invited by Grow Llangollen - Community Supported Agriculture to come and coppice some Hazel for them, so we gladly accepted this opportunity to learn some new skills, spend a morning together having a good laugh, and in true spirit, we even managed to drink some tea end eat some biscuits! All in all a job well done.

Thank you to Grow Llangollen for the invite, and thanks to all the men who came to help and learn!

08/11/2025

We have been busy working on a collaborative project with Grow Llangollen - Community Supported Agriculture to make some dibbers.

Keep your eyes peeled for more information in future!

Please support us by liking and sharing our page 🙏

24/10/2025

A huge thank you to every who has kindly donated to our Just Giving page (link in bio). We are eternally grateful. We are completely humbled by the generosity of people who support our cause.

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21/10/2025

We are going to be popping our heads up at a couple of markets over the Christmas period, so we are working away like elves to make some stock!

We will still focus our efforts on learning new skills and reducing the biscuit population of Llangollen, so come and join us every Wednesday. 18:30 - 20:30

Open to all men over the age of 18. Please share this post 🙏

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16/10/2025

We have been really busy behind the scenes over the last month. As well as running the sessions, we have been working to take our group from a small group run by one person, to a proper little organisation, run by its members!

We want to keep sessions free to attend, we want to get some better equipment and be able to afford to get demonstrators to come and teach us new skills.

We have some big plans in the pipeline, but for now we are asking for your help. We would love it if you could support us on our mission, by visiting our Just Giving page and donating. 🙏

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/men-minded?utm_medium=CR&utm_source=CL

We understand that you may not be able to support us financially, perhaps you could support us by liking and sharing this post, and our page. However you choose to support us we are extremely grateful 🙏

13/10/2025

If you are interest in coming along. Please do! Sessions are free, fun and informal.

We now meet every Wednesday from 18:30 to 20:30

men_minded@outlook.com for more info!

10/10/2025

World Mental Health Day!

Mental health is such an important subject, that is often overlooked, it often has stigma attached to it, like there is shame, or embarrassment from having a mental illness. No one is embarrassed about having a cold or a cough, so why should you be embarrassed about having an unwell mind?

I suffered with poor mental health and undiagnosed mental illness my whole life, until it became too much to manage. I wanted out. Thankfully I reached out and asked for help. It wasn't easy to do, and the recovery from my mental illness has been long and undulating. But I'm so glad I took that step, I'm so glad I asked for help.

I have spent the last two days doing the ASIST training it's another step in the right direction towards me giving back some of the help I received.

It's OK to talk about mental health. It's OK to talk about su***de. In fact it's essential that we start to do so more often. I'm here to talk to should you want to. Men_minded@outlook.com Joe Hackney. Send me a message.

04/09/2025

I thought I would give you an insight into what we stand for and why we meet up.

As soon as I mention the words mens group, mental health, or wellness, people's unconscious bias kicks in and they automatically assume that the group is a bunch of broken men all sitting around in a circle, sad, depressed, lonely, crying into their cuppa! But this couldn't be further from the truth!

We laugh and joke (I am the butt of most of these! 😆) we eat loads of biscuits and drink tea and coffee in copious amounts. But most importantly, we share skills and ideas with each other, build friendships, and are there to listen if anyone has something they want to get of their chests.

We have done lots of things over the last 6 months:

- Fire lighting
- Bow drill
- Map reading
- Tool sharpening
- Sacred geometry
- Natural cordage
- Knife skills
- Spoon carving
- Utensil carving

These are some of the things we intend to do over the next six months:

- More of the above
- Clothes repair
- Sketching and drawing
- Lino printing
- Deer butchery
- Film nights
- Bring and work on your own project
- Eat a tonne of biscuits!

I haven't posted any events for a while. That's because our sessions have been booked up! But if you have read this far and are still interested, shoot me an email and I can either give you more info on how and when you can come to a session, or add you to our WhatsApp group.

men_minded@outlook.com

Link in bio

Thanks for reading, sharing, and supporting Men:Minded it means a lot 🙏

Joe ✌️

Address

Hwb Pentredwr
Llangollen
LL208DG

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