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When people ask what Mensano does, the answer is straightforward: we help men build the skills and confidence they need to handle real life. But the way we do that depends on who we’re working with. Whether you’re a man looking for support, a school searching for preventative education, or a partner organisation wanting to address male wellbeing, our approach always starts with the same idea. Men do better when the help they receive is practical, grounded, and delivered in a

Most boys grow up with a strange mix of freedom and silence. They are given opinions about masculinity with no tools to navigate it. They’re expected to manage emotions they were never taught to understand. And they’re launched into adolescence without any structured guidance on relationships, communication, or identity. Schools do their best, parents do what they can, but the reality is that boys often learn about dating, sex, respect, and conflict from the internet long bef

Most men don’t struggle because they lack strength or intelligence. They struggle because they don’t have places where it’s safe to talk honestly, learn practical skills, and be challenged without being humiliated. For years, men have been told to “open up”, yet the environments offered to them often feel uncomfortable, judgmental, or disconnected from how they naturally communicate. When men can’t find spaces that fit them, they retreat. Some hide their problems behind work

Men in the UK are facing a quiet crisis that rarely gets the honesty it deserves. Rates of loneliness are rising, social networks are thinning out, and many men have slipped into patterns of isolation that make everyday life feel heavier than it needs to be. At the same time, online spaces designed to “speak to men” have become breeding grounds for anger, hopelessness, and distorted ideas about masculinity and relationships. This combination has created a generation of men wh