ManGang UK

31/12/2025

On the eve of the new year, everyone’s shouting about past achievements and future resolutions.

New year
New you
Smash goals
Level up
No excuses

B**lox to that!

Mine’s simpler.
Just four words.

Keep on keeping on.

Life doesn’t magically reset at midnight.
Bills don’t disappear.
Grief doesn’t take a day off.
Mental health doesn’t give a toss what the calendar says.

Some will be dragging ourselves over the line, not sprinting into anything new.

This ain’t about big promises.
It’s about staying in the fight.

Getting up when your head is noisy.
Turning up when the motivation’s gone missing.
Doing the right thing even when no one’s clapping.

Some days progress looks like graft.
Some days it looks like rest.
Some days it’s just still being here.

And that is what counts.

So whatever this next year throws your way
Good days
Bad days
Days when you can barely hold it together

Do the one thing that actually matters

KEEP ON KEEPING ON

If that’s all you manage
Then you’ll be doing alright.

31/12/2025

On the eve of the new year, everyone’s shouting about past achievements and future resolutions.

New year
New you
Smash goals
Level up
No excuses

B**lox to that!

Ours is simpler.
Just four words.

Keep on keeping on.

Life doesn’t magically reset at midnight.
Bills don’t disappear.
Grief doesn’t take a day off.
Mental health doesn’t give a toss what the calendar says.

Some will be dragging ourselves over the line, not sprinting into anything new.

This ain’t about big promises.
It’s about staying in the fight.

Getting up when your head is noisy.
Turning up when the motivation’s gone missing.
Doing the right thing even when no one’s clapping.

Some days progress looks like graft.
Some days it looks like rest.
Some days it’s just still being here.

And that is what counts.

So whatever this next year throws your way
Good days
Bad days
Days when you can barely hold it together

Do the one thing that actually matters

KEEP ON KEEPING ON

If that’s all you manage
Then you’ll be doing alright.

Happy new year from everyone at Mangang

29/12/2025

There’s a quiet after Christmas
that no one warns you about,
when the noise packs up and leaves
and the house exhales doubt.

The visits are finished,
the hugs have run dry,
the laughter’s gone home
with a half meant good bye

The tree’s still standing
but it’s lost its fight,
As it sheds dead needles
under tired fairy lights.

Decorations hang on
out of habit, not cheer
looking tired and worn out
like the people still here

You ache for routine
for normal, for plain
for a day that doesn’t feel
wrapped up in cellophane

Your mind turns to work
with a strange kind of hope,
knowing full well
how soon hope gets choked

Back to the grind,
back under the wheel,
back to pretending
this pressure’s not real.

Months till the next payday
lands in your hand,
while your bank app refreshes
like it’s begging you to understand.

Credit cards murmur,
Just once more, you’ll cope,
selling short fixes
packaged as hope.

The days shrink small,
the nights stretch long,
the dark sticks around
like it’s proving a point.

Miss you.
Wish you.
We should do this again.
Empty handed promises
said through a grin.

This is where it starts.
Not loud
Not fast
But quietly heavy
with the weight of the past

Not a headline
Not a sign
Not a dramatic goodbye.

Just a person alone
asking quietly
why?

Is it any wonder
this is when it spikes?

When the lights go out
and so does the fight.

Is it any wonder
some people choose rest
when staying feels harder
than failing a test?

Because keeping on keeping on
isn’t brave every day
sometimes it’s dragging yourself
through the grey.

And sometimes the strongest,
most dangerous choice
is to wake up, breathe in,
and not listen to the voice.

Still here.
Still breathing.
Still bruised.
Still sore.

Still choosing tomorrow
For one night more.

Keep on keeping on

28/12/2025

On Monday 29th December 2025 we have an Extra Meeting at our Hexagon Centre venue ( Suffolk Close, Chandlers Ford ) from 18.30
NO Booking required. NO Judgement. FREE to attend.
Any Man can attend who feels he could do with a Confidential Chat amongst other like-minded Men.
Ps. There will be NO meetings this Wednesday due to it being New Years Eve.

21/12/2025

EXTRA MEETING.
We will have our Hexagon Centre venue, Suffolk Close,
Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh,SO53 3GZ
Open on MONDAY 22nd December 2025, as we will not be having any meetings on Christmas Eve.
As usual, NO Charge, NO Booking required. NO Judgement, just Good Honest Conversation amongst like minded men.

16/12/2025

Wednesday 17th December 2025.
This weeek we only have our Hexagon venue open, due to unavailability of our other venues.
Any Male over 18 welcome.
No charge.
No booking required.

14/12/2025

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fund-zoielogic-fuzzy #
ZoieLogic Dance Theatre have been helping raise Male Mental Health & Wellbeing, plus reducing Male Lonliness for 25years.
They are now in need of Extra Funds to carry on helping the next generation of Boys.
Could you help by donating a few Pounds ?
Or do you know a Young Male that could benefit from their sessions ?
Ps. ManGang are pleased to be associated with The Big Movement by ZoieLogic, where they help reduce Poor Mental Health & Lonliness plus Raise General Wellbeing by the Power of Dance / Movement / General Activities.

For 25 years we've got thousands of young men dancing. Now we have one mission: sustain Fuzzy, our foundational movement programme for boys

06/12/2025

Wednesday 10th December 2025.
As ManGang will be holding their Annual End of Year Celebration meeting, the only venue open will be the HEXAGON CENTRE in Chandlers Ford.

This meeting is open to past & current members, wives, partners, friends, family & anyone intertested in the work of ManGang.

Feeling intrigued ?,
Pop on down to find out more.

Starts at 18.30
No charge.
Free Buffet

Ps, please reply to Original Post if interested in coming along.

24/11/2025

Wednesday 26th November 2025.
ManGang are pleased to announce we will have all 3 of our venues open.
Hexagon Centre, Chandlers Ford. ( from 18.30 )
Saints PH Function Room, Millbrook, Southampton. ( from 18.30 )
Unit 12 CIC, Winnall Valley Road ( only open from 18.30 to 19.15 )
No Booking required.

21/11/2025

The soundtrack of my youth and many crazy memories