Movember 2025
Background
Last year, I joined right towards the end of Movember and missed majority of the activities happening. For 2025, we wanted to really make a concerted effort to amplify this campaign and did so across a number of different channels and ways.
My Sport Development colleagues ran a fantastic charity 5-a-side event. We had another “Zone Out” event which included animal therapy, gaming, arts and crafts and a dead hang challenge ran by our Rugby League team to raise funds for Movember. For these projects, I gave some support and coverage via social media.
Movember Highlight Carousel
Every week, I called upon our sports clubs to contribute their highlights of the week, whether it was an event, a fundraising forfeit or just a tache update. I asked them to also include a quote to go alongside to really get their voices across and why it was so important to them.
Please note - some of the below were published as videos hence the slightly skewed quality as a still.
Locker Room Talk
Locker Room Talk is a series of frank and honest conversations about mental health, wellbeing and what it means to be a good teammate.
Myself and my manager Hattie devised a number of questions, some of which were rather hard hitting and got club members to sit in the changing rooms at Platt Lane, alone with the camera and encouraged them to just talk it out.
Benchwarmers
In November 2025, we gave the former Manchester Met Sport podcast a reboot with new hosts Lauren Heaton and Chloe Golding. We renamed the show “Benchwarmers: Man Met Talk Sport”.
I am the producer for Benchwarmers - scheduling, writing episodes and segments, booking the radio studio and guests, operating the equipment, editing and promoting the podcast.
For this episode, I invited Harvey Unwin (Manchester Met’s Movember Ambassador) and George Charlton (Wellbeing Officer). The episode is comprised of discussions about the intersection of sport and mental health in terms of both performance and recreational sport, the importance of speaking out, the impact of injury on mental health as well as some more light hearted segments.