Radio 4’s Life Changing featured Tier’s life story. Tier is an activist for young men like himself who grew up feeling excluded.
Reece Pallatao is a young man from Cornwall’s abob group. Here he tells Cornwall Live that joining abandofbrothers saved his life.
A call saved my life the day I was ready to kill myself
Cornwall Live interview two men from our Falmouth community, explaining how the support from the communities in Cornwall Falmouth & Penzance.
‘A Band of Brothers gave me the strength to face my emotions’ – Cornwall Live
For International Men’s Day, two of our men put together the following video, to raise awareness of support available to young men.
A Band Of Brothers Cornwall, embracing International Men’s day. Poem read by our very own Nigel lynch, this poem was written by Joyce Sutphen and is entitled “This body”. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL VIDEO
On Saturday Nov 25th, men from A Band Of Brothers Cornwall worked together on a community day at Butterfly Woods near Helston.
The woods and work are in honour of David Hawke-Treneer, who ended his life by suicide in 2013. David’s parents bought this small area of abandoned private woodland and have transformed it into a place of tranquillity and healing.It’s available for local schools and mental well-being groups.The day was spent painting a long fence, assembling a shed and laying gravel on a pathway.
Interview with ABoB volunteer Izzi Polehampton in the Guardian.
Izzi Polehampton, A Band Of Brothers, Falmouth Izzi Polehampton does more to help his community than almost anyone else. His mother killed herself when he was 15, leaving him with an alcoholic, abusive father. Suffering acute anxiety and depression, compounded by mental disorders and addiction, Polehampton’s life was one of self-destruction. When he discovered A Band of Brothers, however, he worked … Read More
Piece by Nirpal Dhaliwal in the Telegraph
Read the article here : ‘A long weekend can be challenging for those with no one to spend it with’
The BBC interview A Band of Brothers Bristol community
A young man says his life has been saved thanks to a charity that has helped him deal with his troubled past.