Go Again – Mental Health Sport Charity

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Our Address: Bristol, United Kingdom

Go Again – Mental Health Sport Charity

Raising funds to provide free sport sessions run by Mental Health Practitioners for children and adults who are struggling with a range of mental health difficulties, from severe and enduring mental illness, to those looking to prevent further mental health difficulties.
Funding psychological support and content to individuals at all levels of sport and for people who have been released by clubs and academies. Featured in Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point Documentary on Amazon Prime – YouTube

Supporting people at all levels of sport

Funds raised supports us to offer free support from a member of our team, this can include Sport Psychology input, mentoring from former and current players/Coaches or a discussion with a Mental Health Professional, clinical Psychologist or Trainee Sport Psychologist.

Support for people released by clubs and academies – We offer support and advice to people who are struggling after being released by clubs and academies. We offer Sport Psychology input, mentoring from former and current players and professional psychological input.

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Group Sessions

Contact 07590595879 or email goagain6@outlook.com to discuss registration for these sessions.

Thursdays from 11-12 Longwell Green Community Centre, Shellards Road, Bristol BS30 9DU

Thursdays from 3pm – 4:30pm at Shaftesbury Park, Bristol BS16 1LG

Running for over six years Recovery Through Sport has supported over 500 people with a range of mental health difficulties from people within NHS mental health services to people who are looking to prevent further mental health difficulties.

18% Improvement in how people felt ‘Satisfied in their life’ after attending the group. 17% Improvement in how people felt ‘Worthwhile in how they feel things are going in their life’ after attending the group. 20% Improvement in how people felt ‘Happy’ after attending the group.

Group Session Info

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Professional Mental Health Support

Supporting children and adults at all levels of sport and people who have been released by clubs and academies

Recovery Through Sport Mental Health Football Sessions

Peer Support

Bringing people together with shared experiences, to support each other and provide peer support through the power of sport.

Environment

Supporting people to get back into sport by playing in a fun, non-competitive environment where they can build back their physical and mental fitness.

Support

Providing support and advice to people who may be presenting with clinical mental health difficulties and may benefit from advice from our team of Mental Health Professionals.

Education

Workshops and documentation outlining ways to manage mental wellbeing and plan for future success.

Tyrhys Dolan

Our mission to provide improved mental health support for people who are released by clubs and academies has been inspired by our Ambassador Tyrhys Dolan. Read Tyrhys’s story below.

Blackburn’s Tyrhys Dolan Is Raising Awareness For Mental Health After Best Friend’s Tragic Passing (sportbible.com)

FA Cup: Blackburn’s Tyrhys Dolan on what losing his best friend Jeremy Wisten taught him about life and loss – BBC Sport

Tyrhys Dolan On Grieving And Why Clubs Need To Do More For Their Released Players | TheSportsman

In November 2022 Go Again Charity were featured on Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point Documentary on Amazon Prime. This Documentary series included an episode on mental health in academy football and beyond.

Featured in Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point Documentary on Amazon Prime – YouTube

The final episode of the series explores another issue that has often been stigmatised in football – mental health. It particularly focuses on young players, with recent years having seen an alarming uptick in the number of players reporting problems with depression and anxiety at academy level. This is another area where Ferdinand was able to draw on his past experiences – especially by reflecting on the way that he himself had avoided broaching the subject early in his own career.

“In football, the culture has always been a macho environment, and with any sign of vulnerability or emotion, you’re deemed as somebody who’s surplus to requirements,” he says. “I was probably part of that problem, as I discuss on that episode, and that was the culture back then.

“Whereas I think now, even my own experience is that talking and communicating and showing a vulnerable side of yourself, showing emotion, being able to say that things aren’t okay, that should be embraced. And I think there’s going to have to be an education process for the people that are coaching, or in the education areas of these football clubs, to enable these young people to be able to speak and to feel comfortable and not actually feel that they’ll be judged in the aftermath of showing that side of themselves.”

RioFerdinandsTippingPoint_06 — Rio Ferdinand in Tipping Point. Prime Video

We support player agencies including:

CAA Base

Inter Sport Management

S4S

Elite Athlete Management

Utopia Sports Management

Destination 219

Football Development Agency

The Football Player Database

We have the support of the following as ambassadors and player mentors:

We provide courses and content for: MiMENTOR – mimentorportal.com

We are proud to work alongside Willow Grove Consultants and Athlete Welfare Initiative run by Theo Farquharson.

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Help our non-profit organization by donating today! All donations go directly to making a difference for our cause.

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Our Ambassadors

We are delighted to introduce to you our ambassadors for Go Again! We look forward to working closely with our ambassadors to do all we can to improve Mental Health in sport.

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Tyrhys Dolan

English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Blackburn Rovers.

It’s a massive honour to announce that Blackburn Rovers FC winger Tyrhys Dolan will be an ambassador for Go Again.

Tyrhys will be supporting us in our mission to support the mental health of those being released from clubs and academies by offering a holistic package of support.

Tyrhys has shown amazing strength and resilience through adversity and has reached out to give us support. We can’t thank Tyrhys and Gareth Seddon enough for their backing. We can’t wait to work together with them!

Alex Pope

Assistant Academy Manager at Exeter City FC

We are delighted that Alex Pope has agreed to become the coaching ambassador for Go Again. Alex has a wealth of experience as a coach and has a clear passion for supporting people’s mental wellbeing.

Alex has been supporting Go Again in its development from the start alongside head of coaching Kevin Nicholson.

The support provided by the guys at Exeter City has helped to create a service that combines the experience of mental health professionals with the expertise of experienced football coaches.

Frank Fielding

English professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship side Stoke City.

Delighted to have former Millwall Goalkeeper and Bristol City #doublewinner Frank Fielding supporting Go Again in our mission to provide holistic support for athletes who have been released from clubs and academies.

Will Hurrell

We are delighted that former Bristol Bears centre and current Plymouth Albion Assistant Coach Will Hurrell has agreed to become an ambassador for Go Again.

Will announced his retirement on medical advice in April 2020 due to suffering a stroke during a match for Bristol Bears.

Will’s experiences of fighting back from adversity is an inspiration and he shows a huge passion and drive to use his experiences to support others.

We look forward to working alongside Will to make a positive difference for people going through difficulties within the rugby industry.

Scott Murray

Former Aston Villa, Reading and Bristol City winger.

Thanks to Bristol City legend Scott Murray who will be supporting us in our mission to provide support to athletes who have been released from clubs and academies.

Marcus Stewart

The former Ipswich Town & Sunderland frontman joins us as a Player/Coach Mentor.

Nicole Allison

Chief Executive of Worcester City Women, Founder of NA Sports Consultancy and Former General Manager of Tottenham Hotspur Ladies.

Nicole will use her vast experience to support Go Again to provide free psychological support throughout the women’s game.

Nicholas de-Long

We are delighted that UEFA A Licence Coach & Military Physical Trainer, Nick de-Long, has agreed to join the Go Again team.

Nick has over 21 years of military service both home and abroad and is currently working as a YDP coach at Bristol Rovers FC.

He is a former assistant coach of the National Teams of India & Rwanda and a number of professional clubs in Cyprus as well as the former Head Coach of UK Armed Forces Football.

As a coach and mentor Nick has delivered individual development and team cohesion training to Premier and English Football League clubs.

Gareth Seddon

The former Fleetwood Town and Salford City frontman joins us as an Ambassador. Gareth’s experience will help us in our push to provide support to non-league players.

Jeremiah Gyebi

Creator of @TakingOnTheMind

Jeremiah will mentor players of all levels including; grassroots, semi-pro, academy and those who have been released from their clubs or academies.

Mark Hudson

Thanks to Mark Hudson for joining our team of player and coach mentors. Mark will be working alongside professional psychologists to support the overall wellbeing of players from all levels and will support the follow up of players who have been released by clubs and academies.

Thanks to Mark Hudson for providing advice, support and content to Go Again in order to provide holistic aftercare for athletes who have been released from clubs and academies.

Wellbeing Information Packs

We offer a wide range of information packs to help with mental well-being. We not only offer our own well-being information packs but we can also brand them to meet your club’s needs.

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Who We Are

We are a team of Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, former and current professional players and Coaches.

We are working together to support the psychological wellbeing of people who are dealing with mental health challenges. We work together to provide mental health football sessions.

We also provide individualised support for people struggling within the world of sport or after being released by clubs and academies.

We aim for people to have access to professional support at the earliest stage possible.
We offer a fast response and confidential line for players and coaches to contact us. This can be for advice on how to support others or to discuss your own wellbeing.
We have developed some wellbeing packs for released academy players based on our experiences and observations of working in mental health for the last 15 years. It provides quotes from people in our services about what has helped their recovery during times of difficulty. We also use examples of people within sport who have suffered rejections and gone on to either further their career in sport or in other fields.
We provide links to various mental health resources such as websites and apps. We will research local mental health services for different clubs who express interest. We would like to make these packs individualised to different clubs’ philosophies.
We have the support of highly skilled graphic and web designers who have been able to turn our content into professional looking wellbeing packs.

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