Checkmate: A Men’s Mental Health Hub

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️!GAME DAY! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We hope everyone gets behind our lads and enjoys watching England in the semi final tonight when they take on Argentina!

Last night we played our weekly 6aside game instead of playing today, it’s fair to say none of us would make the England team… but all laughs and smiles as usual!😁

COME ON ENGLAND!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Full time.
Checkmate 5-4 Stockton City. ⚽️

Cracking game from start to finish. It was competitive, played in great spirits and both teams left everything out there, especially in that heat.

Massive thanks to Stockton City for making the trip over, and to Voltigeur for having us afterwards. The food was class and the hospitality was spot on.

Another great day bringing lads together through football. Cheers everyone. 💙

Up next for the checkmate lads is a charity game against the volti on the 26th July!⚽️

Thanks for having us down and the kind words ❤️

It’s amazing what your doing in the community, giving the young lads a team they can be proud of.
We look forward to our next 6 a side game, great for all involved.

On top of all our regular Checkmate events that we run week in, week out, we also put on bigger events, and each one seems to top the last. Creating friendships and making memories that will last a lifetime. 💪

Thanks to the money raised through sponsored events and your kind donations, we’re able to put on these days while keeping them either free or as affordable as possible for everyone.

Here’s just a few we’ve got coming up over the summer.☀️

🥶🔥 Hamsterley sauna, wild swim & Walk and Talk
⛳ 18-hole golf day
🏄‍♂️ Paddle boarding followed by a BBQ
🎣 Fishing boat trip
🥾 Richmond Walk & Talk followed by a BBQ
🏔️ Lake District day trips
🎨 Paintballing
💪 Tough Mudder
⛳️ Foot golf
🎱 Pool, pizza and darts night at Kitt’s
🙌 And plenty more in the pipeline.

These are the sort of days that bring lads together, create lifelong friendships and show lads there’s a lot more to life than sitting in the house.

None of it would be possible without every single donation and everyone who takes part in our fundraising events. Every penny goes straight back into Checkmate and helps us create even more opportunities for the lads. ❤️

Drop us a message and get involved. 💥

CHECKMATE

Stronger Men. Better Lives. 💙🧡

Not the best photo with the sun shinning, but Over all a Great run out with the lads tonight, new faces again which is always amazing to see.

Massive well done getting through that hour in the heat 🥵

On to the next one tomorrow night as we take on West Cornforth Miners at shildon for a 6 a side game. Looking forward to this one.

Nice shake off tonight with the Spenny Striders after the 15k tough mudder Saturday! 🏃

The Solan Connor Fawcett Family Cancer Trust has very kindly let us at Checkmate have 4 places to run the Great North Run for ourself, this is massive for us we are over the moon🤝

Mark Constantine at Constantine Building services has very generously sponsored our places so that every penny raised will go to Checkmate to help us keep putting events on for men and making the community a more positive place, thanks so much mark!💙

Taking on this challenge is Craig Gallagher John Potts Kyle Jones Jordan White here is our link to donate, every penny counts we couldn’t be more grateful to everyone who donates and the people who have given us this opportunity!🙌

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/checkmatehub?utm_medium=CF&utm_source=WA

💥 Belvoir castle 15k Tough Mudder 💥

What a day that was, from start to finish. Unreal group of lads all helping each other get around.

Days like today take you back to being a kid again and just having fun in life not taking it too serious just laughing all day and having a good time with the best set of lads.

Well done everyone 💪

⚽️ !!MATCH DAY!! ⚽️

What better time to post our next charity game than the first round of the knockout stages, COME ON ENGLAND!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We will be taking on the mighty Stockton City FC, the lads behind the club have been great to Checkmate and have been a part of us since the start. This is set to be a great game between the pair of us. 🤝

Everyone is welcome as always at our charity games, so come down and show some support!🫶

Fantastic nights running last night as always with Spenny Striders 🏃!

This has been a great way of preparing for the upcoming Midlands 15k Tough Mudder UK. We have almost 20 lads travelling down this Saturday to take part in what’s set to be an unbelievable day💪

Can’t wait to share with you all how we get on this Saturday🙌

Yesterday’s raffle UNCLAIMED tickets. Please drop us a message with your ticket if you won and haven’t claimed your prize.

1. £50 vouchers Dirty bandits virtual golf.
(Pink 341-345)

2. £50 Fantabulous Faces Durham
(White 481-485)

3. Hair by Becca Cut&colour
(White 446-450)

4. £25 Monaghan Design voucher
(White 331-335)

5. Alcohol hamper
(Pink 451-455)

6. Full steam ahead dry cleaners 3x £20 vouchers
(Pink 316-320)

7. 2hours padel at DHM Padel
(Pink 221-225)

8. Scentsy Burner
(Pink 301-305)