Haringey abob mentor and ex pro rugby player, Gavin Webster tells the Telegraph what it’s like to be a mentor as well as how abob support the evolution of male maturity in mentors and mentees.
Gavin Webster with his daughter Lily
Webster explains that much of the charity’s work focuses on breaking down notions of masculinity for mentors and mentees alike, and helping the group work together to ask what it means to be a man. “Most of the men have a traditional story of being told that as a man you couldn’t be gay, you couldn’t be weak in a fight, you couldn’t cry. All of the things we can look back on, thankfully, now and say ‘wow, that was a heavy coat to be wearing’.
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