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JOE TOLHURST TELLS US ABOUT SOUTH KENT MIND,COUCH TO 5K,FOLKESTONE HALF MARATHON,MENTAL ELF RUN AND A FIREWALK!! · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Kevin Sports Very Daily here on Radio
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Speaker 1: Folks then bringing you the Folkstone and Hive Sports Show.
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Speaker 1: Today's show we have local football scores including some fa
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Speaker 1: cut news. We've got a round up of the local
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Speaker 1: cricket scores. There's some park run news and a recap
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Speaker 1: if I get time of my day at the Clacton
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Speaker 1: Half Team half Marathon and ten k road race. And
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Speaker 1: our special guest is Joe Tolhurst from South Kent. Mind.
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Speaker 1: We should be chatting about the couch to five k
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Speaker 1: is involved with the Folkston Half Marathon where Joe is
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Speaker 1: putting the team together and the up and coming firewalk
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Speaker 1: at the Three Hills. So don't go away. So what
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Speaker 1: better way to start a song? We've got a few
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Speaker 1: songs in the playlist about fires, but I love this one.
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Speaker 1: This is a real belter from Take That and Relight
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Speaker 1: My Fire. Whatever we go get in the show on
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Speaker 1: the road. What a great track there from Take That
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Speaker 1: and Lulu. And we've got a bit of a fire
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Speaker 1: theme here today. We'll explain later on, but at the
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Speaker 1: moment I am joined in the studio by a fundraiser
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Speaker 1: for South Kent Mind. Joe told hers welcome to the show.
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Speaker 2: Joe, Hi, Kevin, thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: You're welcome. Now then we've got loads to talk about.
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Speaker 1: But first of all, tell us a little bit about
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Speaker 1: South Kent Mind and your role.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, South Kent Mind we're your local independent mental health charity.
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Speaker 2: We cover the geographical area from Sandwich all the down
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Speaker 2: to Dungeness and in as far as Hawkins and Wingham.
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Speaker 2: We're despite being called South Kent Mind, we're actually not
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Speaker 2: a branch of National Mind. We're in independent charity under
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Speaker 2: the Mind brand, so a lot of people have a
2:28
Speaker 2: bit of a misconception around that. So we don't see
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Speaker 2: any actual financial backing from Mind, just support through campaigns.
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Speaker 2: We have to support ourselves through trusts, grants and grants
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Speaker 2: and foundations and obviously fundraising. Many people know our shops.
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Speaker 2: We've got shops in Folks and Hythe and Dover and
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Speaker 2: the main office in Folkston. So in terms of our services,
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Speaker 2: we run a lot of group activities, so that's our
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Speaker 2: main focus in terms of mental health support, so we
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Speaker 2: run cookery, class well being, wellbeing art groups and lots
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Speaker 2: of outdoor activities such as walks and these happen in Deal,
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Speaker 2: Dover and Folkstone along with a lot of sort of
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Speaker 2: spontaneous summer activities to put together summer activities calendar. And
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Speaker 2: we also for low cost counseling and money guidance services,
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Speaker 2: which is sort of the real, real, sort of bones
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Speaker 2: of what we do in terms of practical services.
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Speaker 1: So is that your role or are you You're basically
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Speaker 1: a fundraiser, but I'll see you know you've got other
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Speaker 1: strings to your bow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So in terms of my role, I'm everything to
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Speaker 2: do with fundraising and communications with the charity. So anyone
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Speaker 2: looking to do a challenge event or fundraise for our charity,
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Speaker 2: I sort of help them out with that process and
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Speaker 2: help them out with their fundraising and obviously everything to
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Speaker 2: do with communicating the charity, like coming on radio and
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Speaker 2: radio's speaking with you today. That's all part of my
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Speaker 2: role as well.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean if someone has got an issue,
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Speaker 1: you know, let's go back to the real world now.
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Speaker 1: People out there are struggling and they get in tired
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Speaker 1: of you. I mean there must be different levels of
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Speaker 1: mental health. What sort of people do you deal with
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Speaker 1: if you like?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously mental health mental well being is really in
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Speaker 2: sportlight at the moment, lots of people are struggling, so
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Speaker 2: we're there for anyone with with common mental health issues
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Speaker 2: such as anxiety and depression. So we offer sort of
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Speaker 2: groups that help people with with getting back on their feet,
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Speaker 2: rehabilitation that way, need a bit of a confidence boost,
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Speaker 2: need a bit of socialization, if they're feeling a bit lonely,
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Speaker 2: that's our that's our specialization, that's our area area of specialization.
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Speaker 2: We do that, like I said, through our groups and
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Speaker 2: UH and and and our special services.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the groups and the activities just just tell
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Speaker 1: us a little bit about them. Where where does that happen.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of our a lot of our groups,
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Speaker 2: such as cookery are really popular ones. They happen in
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Speaker 2: our in our Folksing Center which is on Dover Road
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Speaker 2: at the bottom of Grace Hill, but we also offer
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Speaker 2: services in Deal and Dover. A full list of these
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Speaker 2: can be found in our website southktmind dot org dot UK.
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Speaker 2: But we do encourage people to pop in for little
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Speaker 2: well being check up before they join our groups, just
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Speaker 2: so we can have a chat with you first, and
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Speaker 2: details about that can also be found on our website
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Right, So if people come to you Okay, So the
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Speaker 1: idea is to get the word out as well. I mean,
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Speaker 1: do you do you sort of go to groups, Do
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Speaker 1: you get into schools or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we get into lots of local primary schools
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Speaker 2: and secondary schools and this is something that we want
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Speaker 2: to do more of. But it's obviously it's a tough
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Speaker 2: environment economically, so we need the funding to be able
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Speaker 2: to do that. So that's why we're out here promoting
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Speaker 2: the charity raising funds so we can get out there
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Speaker 2: and do some more work in schools because it's really
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Speaker 2: important to, you know, help the next generation of younger people,
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Speaker 2: as mental health and well being is worsening among adults
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Speaker 2: in the UK.
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Speaker 1: Right, And I do you think since COVID it's been
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Speaker 1: a real problem and even during COVID because people were
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Speaker 1: very isolated, weren't they.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, isolation is a real has a real negative effect
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Speaker 2: on people's mental wellbeing. I mean there's statistics coming out
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Speaker 2: at the moment that one of four people in England
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Speaker 2: experience a mental health problem anually. And I think, like
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Speaker 2: you said, COVID is a real factor that played into that.
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Speaker 2: Just the loneliness, the isolation through lockdown really really had
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Speaker 2: a negative effect on people's mental health. And it's only
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Speaker 2: now that you know, people are coming to grips with it,
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Speaker 2: looking back at you know how turbulent COVID was, and
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Speaker 2: thinking about ways that they can benefit their own mental health.
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Speaker 1: Now, yeah, right, So the thing is is we're going
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Speaker 1: to find out this this morning. It's not all doom
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Speaker 1: and gloom, because we got some cracking things to talk about.
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Speaker 1: There's lots of groups that are going on and we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about a few particular items, and one
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Speaker 1: of them a little bit later on the show is
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Speaker 1: to do with a firewalk. So we've just had Lulu
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Speaker 1: and take that as playing relight my fire. So what
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Speaker 1: we're going to do now is Billy Joel turn and
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Speaker 1: he didn't start the fire, so sit tight and buckle up.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty jo oldare claiming that he didn't start the
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Speaker 1: fire year right, Well, we're going to find out later
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Speaker 1: who's going to start the firewalk. But so we're back
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Speaker 1: in the studio with Joe. Now, Joe, we're just talking
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Speaker 1: off here there. We haven't quite finished about what South
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Speaker 1: Kent mind do, so just one of one or two
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Speaker 1: things that we want to talk about. So far away.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things I want to mentioned, Kevin.
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Speaker 2: We as a charity as well, we offer support to businesses,
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Speaker 2: local businesses and organizations. So we're always looking to get
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Speaker 2: out there and and help out your business. And one
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Speaker 2: way we do that is through mental health first aid training.
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Speaker 2: So we actually offer courses with a mental health first
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Speaker 2: aid trainer who comes down and we can we can
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Speaker 2: train up your staff to sort of to sort of
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Speaker 2: help them become knowledgeable of what to be aware of
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Speaker 2: so they can look out for signs of poor mental
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Speaker 2: health and well being among their staff. And this is
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Speaker 2: really important to have as an employer because the various
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Speaker 2: laws involved with it and also just for the general
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Speaker 2: well being of your staff. So we offer these great
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Speaker 2: courses in mental health first aid and all information about
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Speaker 2: that can be found on our website.
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Speaker 1: So if somebody was at work and if you like
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Speaker 1: this mental health trainer kind of noticed that, you know,
8:39
Speaker 1: his mind was not on the job, and that would
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Speaker 1: be the first move just to have a little chat
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Speaker 1: with him. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just just opening up into conversation and you know,
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Speaker 2: you know, finding out scratching the surface, finding out if
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Speaker 2: they're right.
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Speaker 1: Something a home might be troubling them more financially, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then signposting them back to us really because
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Speaker 2: we offer help with you know, financial issues through art
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Speaker 2: to our money Guidance. If you've got issues with money
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Speaker 2: finances and you need and that's negatively affecting your mental health,
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Speaker 2: we can support you with that as well.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So what else you got?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we also we'll talk about our fundraising events
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Speaker 2: coming up. But on the seventh of September, we've actually
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Speaker 2: got a coastal Sunrise Walk of Hope for Suicide Prevention
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Speaker 2: Awareness Month, which is September, and that's you know, part
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Speaker 2: of our commitment to supporting mental health and raising awareness
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Speaker 2: of suicide in our community. We're hosting a sunrise walk
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Speaker 2: starting at six am, so five forty five am. Meet
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Speaker 2: in hythe Battery Point car park and Finishing and Folkston
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Speaker 2: and this is to mark Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, a
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Speaker 2: really important month to highlight in our community. As you know,
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Speaker 2: suicide should be you know, made aware in that way
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Speaker 2: and we should do what we can to support people
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Speaker 2: who have been affected by.
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Speaker 1: It, right, and how can people find out about that?
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Speaker 1: Once again? Is it the website? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Once again? On the website, so southkatmind dot org dot
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Speaker 2: UK and their instructions now on how to sign up
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Speaker 2: and let you know, let us know if you'd like
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Speaker 2: to join.
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Speaker 1: Okay, right, so I think if does anybody else want
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Speaker 1: to talk about Joe before we move on?
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Speaker 2: I think that covers all the charity stuff our side.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so right, so now first up on the agenda,
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Speaker 1: we've got a couch to five k the Buckston movers there.
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Speaker 1: What's the Buckston thing? Tell us about that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this actually came through a relationship with bucks
10:28
Speaker 2: in the water company that everyone that everyone knows and
10:31
Speaker 2: it's we essentially are running it. We're running from from
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Speaker 2: the end of June a twelve week course, so a
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Speaker 2: couch to five k group where the idea is that
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Speaker 2: you have no actually no background in running. It can
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Speaker 2: be it can be something that you've wanted to do,
10:45
Speaker 2: something you see other people doing and want to get
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Speaker 2: involved with, and you go from that couch so the
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Speaker 2: state of non running and then by the end of
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Speaker 2: the twelve week the aim is the aim is to
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Speaker 2: be able to run a five k without stopping. And
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Speaker 2: we're on week nine now and it's going really well.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's everyone's you know, building up their their endurance, their
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Speaker 2: their running ability and really enjoying it on the way
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Speaker 2: along the way because of you know, the benefits that
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Speaker 2: running and movement have for our mental health and well being.
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Speaker 1: And did these people did they know each other before
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Speaker 1: they joined the group?
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Speaker 2: A few did a few colleagues at work. But we
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Speaker 2: made open enough so can join if you're on your own.
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Speaker 2: It was. It's really welcoming environment led by brilliant coaches
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Speaker 2: at the at the Folks and Running Club who are
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Speaker 2: doing this in collaboration with so big thank you to
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Speaker 2: Folks and Running Club in particular Catherine and Margaret, the
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Speaker 2: guys there. They be really supportive with coaches and volunteers
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Speaker 2: each week and it's been really great to have some
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Speaker 2: sort of some professional help with with with the running
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Speaker 2: and everyone's really enjoying it.
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Speaker 1: Right. So, so you've got a little group there, I mean,
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Speaker 1: do you have you noticed that they are getting more comfortable?
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Speaker 1: Can you see that they're bonding as a group? And
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you speak to them, obviously you
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Speaker 1: do because you go along and know that. Do you
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Speaker 1: find that they're looking forward to you know, something that's
12:04
Speaker 1: kind of gives them a little spring to this STP.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think everyone's really enjoying themselves. You know that
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Speaker 2: the numbers have been really great each week. Everyone's everyone
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Speaker 2: keeps coming back, so I suppose that's a good sign.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, they're really enjoying just the positive effects of running,
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Speaker 2: like like the bodily and mentally you just you just
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Speaker 2: feel better week and week, and and the challenge element
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Speaker 2: as well, because each week we progress a little bit,
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Speaker 2: go a little bit further, less less stopping, that kind
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Speaker 2: of thing, and everyone really enjoys the challenge of that
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Speaker 2: and benefits.
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Speaker 1: Right. So yeah, yeah, but you're quite a sportsman yourself, Joe,
12:37
Speaker 1: aren't you. I Mean, we will perhaps one day get
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Speaker 1: you in or somebody from the hockey club, but you're
12:43
Speaker 1: you're a keen hockey player, aren't you. So you know
12:46
Speaker 1: the benefits of sport and exercise. And I mean, let's
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Speaker 1: face it, I was up there Monday and it was
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Speaker 1: good to see you personally taking part rather than just
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Speaker 1: cracking a whip and watching the others.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's great to be involved with the group,
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Speaker 2: really supportive, like like a positive environment, like I said,
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I know the benefits of sport really well.
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Speaker 2: I played for a folks ops with hockey club first eleven.
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Speaker 2: It's and yeah, it's a real sort of constant in
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Speaker 2: my life that helps me. Is the foundation for them
13:17
Speaker 2: going into work and everything. And yeah, I could be
13:19
Speaker 2: more of a more bigger advocate of the benefits of sport.
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Speaker 1: You're dead right, because I mean, all right, so, I
13:25
Speaker 1: mean my sporting days are behind me, if you like,
13:29
Speaker 1: because I took part in so much sport at quite
13:33
Speaker 1: an intense level. When I played football, I just had
13:35
Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent fit. Now I'm suffering from
13:38
Speaker 1: bad knees and bad ankles and bad backs. But I
13:40
Speaker 1: wouldn't have changed it an any way at all. I
13:43
Speaker 1: looked forward to a game on Saturday, I looked forward
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Speaker 1: to training, and even after a game, and after training,
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Speaker 1: bonding with with your teammates. You know, it's so such
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Speaker 1: an advantage. And I've had so many people come in
13:55
Speaker 1: here and talk about team games and and just the
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Speaker 1: benefit of just joining doing something, whether it's squash, rugby, cricket, hockey, whatever,
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Speaker 1: Just get out there and do something, even if it's
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Speaker 1: a walking group. It all adds to as Joe says,
14:12
Speaker 1: to your mental health, which is they're kind of a
14:16
Speaker 1: bit of a buzzword now, isn't it mental health? I
14:18
Speaker 1: Mean before it was kind of just get one, get
14:22
Speaker 1: on and get on with it, you know, But now
14:23
Speaker 1: it's it's people people like yourself are getting people that
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Speaker 1: are struggling to come out and talk about it, aren't they?
14:30
Speaker 1: Do you find people are being more open, they're not
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Speaker 1: holding back so much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely the gen environment, everyone's more open to mental
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Speaker 2: health and talking about it openly, which is such an
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Speaker 2: important thing because conversations that the first step towards improving
14:45
Speaker 2: your mental health, and sport is a great way to
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Speaker 2: do that. It doesn't matter what level you play at.
14:50
Speaker 2: You don't have to be the fastest runner, the most
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Speaker 2: skillful player. I think just getting out there and socializing again,
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Speaker 2: like you said, ok, with other people is could help
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Speaker 2: your mental health without you even really noticing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah right. So these guys there on that was
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Speaker 1: week nine? Was it last Monday? So nine, ten, eleven,
15:06
Speaker 1: three mores ago. Let's hope that when they finished the
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Speaker 1: week twelve that they don't stop. That's the thing there's that,
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Speaker 1: you know. But we do now have a park run
15:18
Speaker 1: which is five k and that's a perfect avenue to
15:22
Speaker 1: go into. And I'm sure you've suggested that they get
15:26
Speaker 1: a barcode and try a park run. So I will
15:31
Speaker 1: just say that on Monday there was people. And I
15:33
Speaker 1: do know this that Chris Walgo joins in a lot
15:36
Speaker 1: and Julie Gibbs is joining in, and it's not I mean,
15:39
Speaker 1: there are always It's good that the folks and running
15:41
Speaker 1: club have all got together. I've got a little team
15:43
Speaker 1: of coaches, and yeah, it was good to see. I
15:47
Speaker 1: was up there Monday and I just felt a good
15:50
Speaker 1: vibe about the place. So carry on, you couch the
15:53
Speaker 1: five k. There's only three weeks to go, and then
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm going to try and get up there
15:58
Speaker 1: on that twelfth week and and just see how you're
16:01
Speaker 1: all getting on so right, So that's one if you
16:07
Speaker 1: like objective. It's nearly there, three quarters of the way
16:11
Speaker 1: through what we're gonna do. Now we're going to play
16:13
Speaker 1: another song and then we're going to come back. And
16:15
Speaker 1: the next on your gender is you're trying to get
16:17
Speaker 1: a team for the half marathon, so you can tell
16:19
Speaker 1: us all about that. So we got another song now
16:22
Speaker 1: about fire. Yeah, you know, I'll put fire in the
16:25
Speaker 1: playlist and loads of them come up. But I haven't
16:29
Speaker 1: heard this one for a very very long time. It
16:31
Speaker 1: does take a little bit of time to get going,
16:33
Speaker 1: so don't turn the radios up just yet. But this
16:36
Speaker 1: is Van Gelis and Chariots of Fire. So Van Gelis,
17:28
Speaker 1: when was the last time you heard that one? Am
17:29
Speaker 1: chari sa Fire? Do you remember that film? Remember how
17:31
Speaker 1: it started? I'll tell you how it started. They were
17:34
Speaker 1: all running along the beach in sort of half on
17:38
Speaker 1: the edge of the sea there with this music playing.
17:42
Speaker 1: And every time I hear that song, that is the
17:44
Speaker 1: very first thing I think about. Okay, So we're back
17:47
Speaker 1: in the studio. This is Kevin Day and Radio Focus
17:49
Speaker 1: and we're talking to a Joe Tolehurst from South Kent
17:53
Speaker 1: Mind and we are talking about Now we're going to
17:55
Speaker 1: mention the half marathon which is coming up. So Joe
17:59
Speaker 1: over to you. What's going on at the half marathon?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So this year for the upcoming half marathon on
18:04
Speaker 2: Sunday's twentieth of September, we're going to enter a South
18:09
Speaker 2: camp my team. This is something that charity you haven't
18:11
Speaker 2: done before and something that I really wanted to promote
18:15
Speaker 2: as I've been the wrong about a year now. Want
18:18
Speaker 2: to get involved in more sports and local organizations. So
18:21
Speaker 2: this obviously run by the Folks and Rotary half Marathon. Yeah,
18:26
Speaker 2: and we're putting together team, so putting the feelers out
18:29
Speaker 2: a few months ago and obviously the Folks are running
18:31
Speaker 2: club have really picked up well on it and we've
18:35
Speaker 2: got plenty of members of the team. I'm just on
18:38
Speaker 2: the way to do another round of promotion as we're
18:41
Speaker 2: coming up to about a month away.
18:43
Speaker 1: Right, So what's the score on the promotion then for
18:48
Speaker 1: an individual if they want to, hopefully they've started their training,
18:52
Speaker 1: because you can't just turn up and run a half marathon.
18:55
Speaker 1: Let's make that very clear. I mean, how does it
19:01
Speaker 1: stay d You're asking them to raise money?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the idea is that we'll pay your entry,
19:07
Speaker 2: but we put a suggested sponsorship goal of one hundred
19:10
Speaker 2: and twenty pounds in place to maximize the effectively fundraising
19:14
Speaker 2: and your impact. And then you'll be equipped with a
19:16
Speaker 2: south ket My vest on the day to represent the team.
19:20
Speaker 2: And you've been doing great work for your local independent
19:22
Speaker 2: mental health charity. Obviously, like we talked about the benefits
19:25
Speaker 2: of sport for mental health, and I think it's really
19:27
Speaker 2: important for us to have a presence at sports event
19:30
Speaker 2: local marathons, local half marathons, everything like that to sort
19:34
Speaker 2: of promote the charity and to promote the benefits of
19:38
Speaker 2: promote the benefits of work that we do locally.
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Speaker 1: All right, So what about you personally? Will you be
19:42
Speaker 1: running the whole or is it kind of clash with
19:44
Speaker 1: your hockey training?
19:45
Speaker 2: I think is fifty It is touch and go at
19:48
Speaker 2: the moment. We have a game away in Woking the
19:51
Speaker 2: day before, so you know, at the moment it's looking
19:54
Speaker 2: like I will, But you know, a hockey dependent Yeah, yeah,
20:00
Speaker 2: can't resist a challenge, so I we'll probably take it out.
20:02
Speaker 1: Oh well done to you. Yeah yeah, And I mean,
20:06
Speaker 1: of you do you know anything about the course? Have
20:07
Speaker 1: you run it before?
20:09
Speaker 2: Have it myself? But I've hoped there's a big head
20:10
Speaker 2: at the end.
20:11
Speaker 1: Well yeah there is. So basically you start up on
20:15
Speaker 1: the lees. We used to go down the Road of Remembrance,
20:19
Speaker 1: but no one can do that now. So I think
20:21
Speaker 1: it was the first year they changed the course and
20:23
Speaker 1: so they'd done went out on the lees and they
20:27
Speaker 1: went down the Sandgate Hill, but not very far, just
20:31
Speaker 1: down to I think where they turn off is for
20:33
Speaker 1: the vets down there. Then they cut off and found
20:36
Speaker 1: their way back onto the promenade, and then they went
20:38
Speaker 1: out to Hive and then they came back. But what
20:42
Speaker 1: goes down must come up, or what goes up must
20:44
Speaker 1: come down. So yeah, there's this thing in the tail,
20:47
Speaker 1: whatever way you look at it. But it's nice because
20:52
Speaker 1: I mean, you can run forever on the promenade, but
20:55
Speaker 1: every now and then it's nice to have a little challenge,
20:57
Speaker 1: a little hill and to test yourself. Yes, that would
21:01
Speaker 1: be good. I've been involved with the half marathon ever
21:03
Speaker 1: since it's started. I don't know how many years it
21:05
Speaker 1: is now, but it is many. And obviously we've got
21:08
Speaker 1: to thank Ray Johnson, the race director for all his
21:12
Speaker 1: input and the very experienced runner run runs the London
21:15
Speaker 1: Marathon nearly every year of running money for raising money
21:19
Speaker 1: for the Kent Association for the Blind. But he does
21:23
Speaker 1: love to get people running for the teams like you
21:27
Speaker 1: lot running for their own charity. And so how can
21:30
Speaker 1: people get involved? Do they just have to get an
21:33
Speaker 1: entry form or do they come to you first?
21:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, please just get directly in touch with us. So
21:37
Speaker 2: you can email me contact at Southotmind dot uk and
21:42
Speaker 2: we should have further information on about the half mathon
21:45
Speaker 2: team on our website as well. So even if you
21:48
Speaker 2: already signed up to the marathon and would just like
21:50
Speaker 2: to you know, do a bit of sign raising on
21:52
Speaker 2: the side, were happily you know, you're more than welcome
21:56
Speaker 2: to join the team. Yeah, just get in touch with
22:00
Speaker 2: contact at southolate Mind to talk to brilliant.
22:02
Speaker 1: Okay, so I mean it is a big, busy day,
22:04
Speaker 1: a buzzy day as well. I don't know, let me
22:07
Speaker 1: think I'll probably seven or eight under turn up. I
22:09
Speaker 1: think in the past it's uh. And so you don't
22:14
Speaker 1: take lightly a half marathon, you know, so if you're
22:18
Speaker 1: thinking about you should be training already. I wouldn't expect
22:20
Speaker 1: that new couch to five k to do it just yet.
22:24
Speaker 1: But it's yeah, so please keep in touch and we'd
22:27
Speaker 1: love to see you on the day. And will you
22:29
Speaker 1: be up there with a little stall as well?
22:31
Speaker 2: You think definitely, Yeah, we'll have we'll have colleagues there
22:34
Speaker 2: there with with with tabos on and representing the charity. Yeah,
22:39
Speaker 2: it's really good day.
22:40
Speaker 1: Okay, right, well we're going to do now if we're
22:42
Speaker 1: going to switch to something that's coming up in December,
22:44
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about the Firewalk last So
22:47
Speaker 1: you've got something that's coming up in December. You tried
22:50
Speaker 1: it for the first time last year. It's very successful,
22:53
Speaker 1: and so tell us about the Mental al fraun.
22:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, mental health. It seems seems to early to be
22:59
Speaker 2: talking about Christmas, but this is our yeah, big Christmas
23:01
Speaker 2: fundraiser coming up on the seventh of December. It's going
23:05
Speaker 2: to be a five kilometer fun run along the Lees.
23:09
Speaker 2: So sticking with the theme of running that we've got
23:11
Speaker 2: to going today. Yeah. Last year was our first year
23:15
Speaker 2: and we had a great turnout, brilliant support from the
23:17
Speaker 2: local community. The idea is everyone dresses up as an elf, families,
23:22
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter again and your running ability. It's just
23:24
Speaker 2: a fun run. It's up and down the Lees following
23:27
Speaker 2: the Park Run route and just a great opportunity to
23:29
Speaker 2: kind of kind of you know, promote the charity and
23:33
Speaker 2: and have some get the festive get the festive mood, right.
23:36
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of there was a lot
23:38
Speaker 1: of children there last year, wasn't it with appearance and
23:40
Speaker 1: unfortunately the weather was a bit grim.
23:41
Speaker 2: Wasn't it last year? Wasn't on our side, but everyone
23:43
Speaker 2: turned out. I was in the festive spirit. I mean,
23:45
Speaker 2: you obviously know you're on the your pa on the day.
23:48
Speaker 1: I was the driest person because I was. I was
23:50
Speaker 1: in the bandstand. I was lovely. I was charging people
23:53
Speaker 1: a pound to come up and join me. But yeah,
23:56
Speaker 1: so right, recap on that one. When is there how
23:58
Speaker 1: can people get in touched? And you do, I've got
24:03
Speaker 1: here sort of an early bird ticket.
24:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got an early bird so we call it
24:07
Speaker 2: Eager Elf and as a early bird ticket, and that's
24:09
Speaker 2: coming out in the first of September. So this is
24:11
Speaker 2: the first little bit of promotion that I've done on
24:13
Speaker 2: mental health. But yeah, look to our website, looks to
24:16
Speaker 2: our social media or from the first of September, and
24:19
Speaker 2: we'll be rolling up those Eager Elf discounted tickets.
24:23
Speaker 1: Great, and I'm also hoping that, as we did last year,
24:26
Speaker 1: it went down so well that we'll have a warm up.
24:28
Speaker 1: I've got to chat up my warm up lady. I
24:30
Speaker 1: won't tell you who it is in case you can't
24:32
Speaker 1: make it. So yeah, so that is really one for
24:35
Speaker 1: the diary. It's in my diary, and we're going to
24:37
Speaker 1: switch this theme now from fire songs to this one
24:42
Speaker 1: now played. This is something that I love playing actually,
24:45
Speaker 1: especially when I do events outside sort of events that
24:50
Speaker 1: involve running with the family. So you know where I'm
24:53
Speaker 1: coming from here we go level forty two. So what
25:17
Speaker 1: a great song. I absolutely love that song because just
25:19
Speaker 1: sums up what I like to do on a Sunday morning.
25:23
Speaker 1: Just watch, you know, the family, especially when there's a
25:25
Speaker 1: junior run. You know, you get a big run like
25:27
Speaker 1: we did at Clacton. There was a half marathon, four hundred,
25:32
Speaker 1: ten k another four hundred, but there was a seventy
25:35
Speaker 1: five in a junior run, and you know some of
25:38
Speaker 1: them are really tiny and the parents run with them
25:40
Speaker 1: and we just wait till the last one coms in.
25:42
Speaker 1: Normally I've got a list of all their names and
25:45
Speaker 1: it's absolutely fantastic. So does a great song Running with
25:47
Speaker 1: a family. Level forty two. Right now we're getting onto
25:51
Speaker 1: the big events that we've been talking about fire related music.
25:55
Speaker 1: But you have got a firewalk coming up, Joe, so
25:59
Speaker 1: very exciting us all about that.
26:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, You've been built up to it with your fire
26:02
Speaker 2: thing yea, and yeah, so we've got firewalk coming up.
26:05
Speaker 2: So it's a really exciting challenge event on Friday, the
26:09
Speaker 2: twelfth of September starting at seven thirty pm at three
26:13
Speaker 2: Hills in Folkston. So to those who aren't aware of
26:16
Speaker 2: what a firewalk is, it is pretty much in the name.
26:19
Speaker 2: It's a it's a challenge event where participants walk across
26:23
Speaker 2: a length of turf that's been there's been little fire
26:26
Speaker 2: with coals raked down and then so that's so they're
26:30
Speaker 2: sort of more more Ember like and then the idea
26:32
Speaker 2: is that you you walk the coals the whole lengths
26:35
Speaker 2: as a challenge event, you know, sort of overcome the
26:38
Speaker 2: fear of it and push your limits. And this is
26:42
Speaker 2: this is something that's organized by a bi professional company,
26:45
Speaker 2: by UK Firewalk, who are the UK's leading firewalk company
26:48
Speaker 2: and actually actually led by by someone who's got a
26:51
Speaker 2: Guinness World Record in firewalking. He just walked the longest distance.
26:55
Speaker 1: Yeah he did the fire Yeah, all right. I've actually
27:00
Speaker 1: seen the firewalk many years ago a colleague of mine,
27:03
Speaker 1: Adam Dowling, he got roped into it and I went
27:07
Speaker 1: down there and they all disappeared into a classroom to
27:09
Speaker 1: start with, and there was a big like motivation session.
27:14
Speaker 1: Is that the sort of thing that happens.
27:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So Scott who leads UK Firewalk, he gives
27:19
Speaker 2: everyone a safety briefing before a bit of a motivational
27:22
Speaker 2: talk to get everyone excited enough for the walk. Although
27:26
Speaker 2: I will add it's it's not a dangerous event at all.
27:30
Speaker 2: They obviously say that they've they said they've never had
27:33
Speaker 2: an injury in all their years of doing it or
27:34
Speaker 2: even a blister, So you know, it's more of the
27:36
Speaker 2: psychological overcoming those barriers and and facing the challenge that
27:40
Speaker 2: that is the real element of challenge for this event. Yeah,
27:45
Speaker 2: and Scott goes through the safety safety points of everyone
27:47
Speaker 2: to make sure that it is a safe and safe event.
27:50
Speaker 1: Right, So how can people get involved with that? And
27:52
Speaker 1: obviously this is raising funds forth Kent mind.
27:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is raising fund for South miss a sponsored event.
27:58
Speaker 2: So yeah, this we're proudly sponsored by SAGA this year,
28:02
Speaker 2: which is great. So so thank you very much to
28:04
Speaker 2: everyone at SAGA and to all the employees who have
28:07
Speaker 2: signed up so far for the firewalk team. We're really
28:10
Speaker 2: looking forward to welcoming you on the day. Also supported
28:13
Speaker 2: by Church and Dwight who are supporting us with products
28:16
Speaker 2: on the day for the participants, and yeah, through employees
28:21
Speaker 2: signing up and Sea Salt Corn will have actually donated
28:24
Speaker 2: donated some love little items for participants as well, and
28:27
Speaker 2: to sign up. It's really straightforward. If you just visit
28:29
Speaker 2: our website South Kentmind dot org dot UK, you'll see
28:33
Speaker 2: a page for our firewalk and there's a full full
28:36
Speaker 2: web page there with a selection of FAQs. So frequently
28:40
Speaker 2: frequently ask questions that that people have around the firewalk,
28:43
Speaker 2: because obviously there are quite a few. And then a
28:46
Speaker 2: little page at the bottom where you can sign up.
28:50
Speaker 2: Individual entries is twenty pounds and we're encouraging sponsorship of
28:54
Speaker 2: eighty pounds as well to maximize your impact. We also
28:58
Speaker 2: offer team team tickets as well, up to up to
29:01
Speaker 2: five So if you look into if you're looking for
29:03
Speaker 2: an opportunity for team building spirits of a lifetime supporting
29:07
Speaker 2: local mental health and this is this is for you is.
29:09
Speaker 1: The one here. Okay, So are there any members of
29:12
Speaker 1: your office team going in for it?
29:14
Speaker 2: Everyone will be everyone will be on the side on
29:16
Speaker 2: the side, right, So like yeah, yeah, team Tristan and Richard, Yeah,
29:20
Speaker 2: we'll be on the we'll be in the side making
29:23
Speaker 2: sure the day runs smoothly. There might be an opportunity
29:27
Speaker 2: to walk the coles who knows.
29:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll give it a go. There the team
29:31
Speaker 1: listening in this morning.
29:32
Speaker 2: Just up the road. They yeah, just up the road
29:33
Speaker 2: Richard and and trists and are listening in. They're part
29:37
Speaker 2: of the team writing, writing our grant applications and and
29:41
Speaker 2: keeping the charity going. So yeah, shout them.
29:45
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So well that sounds really really like something
29:48
Speaker 1: to That's another challenge, isn't it. It's all about doing
29:51
Speaker 1: something outside the books, you know, and whilst there's you know,
29:56
Speaker 1: is this going to be the initial fear, there's going
29:58
Speaker 1: to be a talk. It's not as scary as it's sounds.
30:00
Speaker 1: Doesn't burn your feet, And I think it's been quoted
30:04
Speaker 1: saying he's got the feeling of just walking on hot sand.
30:07
Speaker 1: But it's the fact that you're walking over hot it's
30:09
Speaker 1: like walking on the biblecue, isn't it. You wouldn't do it,
30:13
Speaker 1: But I mean it's not quite as bad as that,
30:15
Speaker 1: but it's it's something that is just challenging. You know,
30:19
Speaker 1: you might be a bit, a bit nervous, a bit scared,
30:22
Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to do these things just outside
30:24
Speaker 1: the box. It's a bit like I don't know, like
30:27
Speaker 1: if you're doing a skydive or or a bungee jump
30:31
Speaker 1: or something like that. You know it's not the sort
30:34
Speaker 1: of thing you do every day, but God, give it
30:36
Speaker 1: a go. Get a team together, but get all the
30:38
Speaker 1: lads and the you know, get them, get them down there.
30:42
Speaker 1: You know, it's just something that's it's something different and
30:45
Speaker 1: you can be talking about it in the pub for
30:47
Speaker 1: ages afterwards. So sorry, Jod, there's me banging on a
30:51
Speaker 1: bit there. But anything else we've got to say about
30:54
Speaker 1: the firewalk before we move on because we are quickly.
30:56
Speaker 1: You're running out of time yet.
30:58
Speaker 2: Time flies, isn't it. Yeah, just essentially that this is
31:00
Speaker 2: a great opportunity to challenge yourself, like you said, as
31:03
Speaker 2: a team or individually, if you want to give back
31:06
Speaker 2: to local mental health charity to support a local great
31:10
Speaker 2: cause who as I mentioned at the start, you know,
31:12
Speaker 2: we fund ourselves entirely, so every every penny has a
31:16
Speaker 2: real impact to local mental health in your community. Then yeah,
31:20
Speaker 2: you can sign up on our website south Ka mind
31:22
Speaker 2: talked you can.
31:23
Speaker 1: So that's the main Portocore really, so everything we've talked
31:26
Speaker 1: about today is on that website.
31:27
Speaker 2: Everything we talked about half marathon, team firewalk, yeah, the
31:32
Speaker 2: the Suicide Prevention Walk in September, everything's everything's on the website.
31:38
Speaker 1: And the mental Health in December. So that is really
31:43
Speaker 1: a good fun one to look out for and puts
31:45
Speaker 1: you in the mood for Christmas, right Joe, Well, think
31:48
Speaker 1: that's about it. We have discussed so many things today.
31:51
Speaker 1: Have we left anything out before you go?
31:53
Speaker 2: Well, we cover a lot of ground, but just just
31:55
Speaker 2: a couple of final points on the charity. So if
31:58
Speaker 2: if we can support your mental health or someone you know,
32:01
Speaker 2: please do get in touch with us with South Kent
32:04
Speaker 2: Mind one three three two five hundred nine zero or
32:08
Speaker 2: emailing us at contact at south Kentmind dot org dot uk.
32:11
Speaker 2: It's really important to reach out to start the conversation,
32:15
Speaker 2: to speak to people as that's the first step towards
32:18
Speaker 2: towards benefiting and mental health. We're also also always on
32:23
Speaker 2: look out for donations to our shops shops I mentioned
32:25
Speaker 2: so in Hive, Folktion and Dover, and if you'd like
32:29
Speaker 2: to volunteers and support any of the activities and events
32:31
Speaker 2: that I've talked about today. Please also get in touch
32:33
Speaker 2: as well as we're always welcoming new volunteers.
32:36
Speaker 1: Excellent. Well, Joe, thank you so much for coming in.
32:38
Speaker 1: And I hope people out there have been listening to
32:40
Speaker 1: this have kind of got a bit more of understanding
32:43
Speaker 1: about mental health and what goes on is you know,
32:47
Speaker 1: it's no good than sort of keeping it quiet these days.
32:50
Speaker 1: These people are out there to help you, and once
32:52
Speaker 1: they help you, you might find that they've got other
32:54
Speaker 1: revenues you can try, and their little clubs and things.
32:58
Speaker 1: So yeah, get in touch, don't keep it bottled up. Well,
33:02
Speaker 1: thank you Joe for coming in.
33:03
Speaker 2: Thanks Kevin, thanks very much.
33:05
Speaker 1: Right, so we've got one more song We've got Oh,
33:07
Speaker 1: we haven't got much time, but so this is one.
33:10
Speaker 1: This is one I dragged it out of the archives.
33:12
Speaker 1: This is one that I hope we don't need at
33:14
Speaker 1: the firewalk is the Move and Fire Brigade next to me? Well,
33:47
Speaker 1: the Move there from nineteen sixty eight, and that was
33:51
Speaker 1: the last fire song that we're going to put in
33:53
Speaker 1: the playlist because I really need to get on and
33:56
Speaker 1: do bits work. I haven't got much time left, so
33:59
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the crick it in that's for sure,
34:01
Speaker 1: because Adriaan av probably well. Adrian will be here on
34:04
Speaker 1: Saturday and we'll handle the all the football over to him.
34:10
Speaker 1: So cricket Now. Folkstone won the toss at home to
34:13
Speaker 1: the Moat. Cricket Club decided to bat and made a
34:16
Speaker 1: whopping three hundred and eighty eight for three opener Rudra Dande,
34:20
Speaker 1: scoring a massive two hundred and twenty one not out,
34:23
Speaker 1: making him the highest scorer in the Kent Cricket League.
34:26
Speaker 1: The second highest is Wilson Massey for Old Kofieans from
34:29
Speaker 1: Southeast London with two hundred and seventeen. Oh. By the way,
34:33
Speaker 1: Shazil Malleka chipped in with forty seven before he was
34:36
Speaker 1: caught in Bold and when you think about it, Routra's
34:40
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty one was more than the total
34:43
Speaker 1: made by the Moat, which was two hundred and three
34:45
Speaker 1: all out. So great day of the two remember there
34:49
Speaker 1: for Folkston. They won the match by one hundred and
34:51
Speaker 1: eighty five runs. Saturday is another home game at the
34:55
Speaker 1: Three Hills, this time against Broadstairs. Moving on to Hawkins
34:59
Speaker 1: now with They lost the toss against Canterbury thirty eleven
35:02
Speaker 1: so Canterbury batted first made one hundred and ninety one
35:05
Speaker 1: for eight. Hawking's batters found their form after last week
35:09
Speaker 1: and crews to one hundred and ninety three for just
35:11
Speaker 1: two wickets, Terry Dunham scoring seventy five and Ashutosh Dejmuk
35:15
Speaker 1: scoring one hundred and six not out. This week they
35:19
Speaker 1: make the short trip to Ashford to play Willsborough, who
35:22
Speaker 1: are eighth out of nine teams. In a low scoring
35:25
Speaker 1: game at the Grove, I've bowled out Why Cricket Club.
35:28
Speaker 1: They bowled them all out for just seventy Troy Harding
35:31
Speaker 1: and Grant Channon taking four wickets apiece. I have then
35:34
Speaker 1: made seventy three for six, winning the game by four wickets.
35:38
Speaker 1: This Saturday Hive who they stay in second place. There
35:42
Speaker 1: are homes to Deal Victoria and Barnes Close who are
35:44
Speaker 1: in third place, so another tight game there. This is
35:47
Speaker 1: the division that is really tightening up at the top there.
35:50
Speaker 1: I've Green lost the toss to Nelson Cricket Club who
35:53
Speaker 1: decided to bat, making one hundred and ninety eight for seven.
35:56
Speaker 1: The Green batted bravely, making one hundred and eighty four
35:59
Speaker 1: for nine, game by just fourteen runs. This week the
36:02
Speaker 1: Greener on the road again, facing a trip to Herne
36:05
Speaker 1: Bay sil what had a welcome win against Tenadon, staying
36:09
Speaker 1: in eighth place out of ten, remembering teams in ninth
36:12
Speaker 1: and tenth go down. Tenadent batted first, making one hundred
36:16
Speaker 1: and ninety four for six. Silould then replied with one
36:19
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five for two, winning the game by
36:22
Speaker 1: eight wickets, Ollie Harrison doing most of the damage with
36:25
Speaker 1: eighty two. This week, Salwood are at home to whist
36:29
Speaker 1: Ball who are ninth, so this is a must win
36:31
Speaker 1: game to keep their noses out of the relegation zone.
36:34
Speaker 1: Sipton Park batted first at home against Addington and made
36:37
Speaker 1: a respectable two hundred and twelve all out. However, Addington
36:41
Speaker 1: were in good form and made two hundred and thirteen
36:43
Speaker 1: for five, so winning the game by five wickets. The
36:47
Speaker 1: SIPs are mid table, fifth out of ten and this
36:49
Speaker 1: week traveled to kings Hill who are eighth. So most
36:53
Speaker 1: teams in the Kent League have just three games left,
36:55
Speaker 1: including Saturday, and there is a couple of promotion and
36:58
Speaker 1: relegation issues in our local clubs, so I'll do my
37:01
Speaker 1: best to keep you updated week by week until the
37:04
Speaker 1: end of the season. Right, Okay, so we've got a
37:07
Speaker 1: little song now, we're going to play this. This is
37:09
Speaker 1: from Atomic Kitten, and we might just finish off with
37:12
Speaker 1: this one because we are very close to coming up
37:15
Speaker 1: to the end of the show. If you see you
37:28
Speaker 1: walking down the street staring at the sky, you're dragging
37:34
Speaker 1: my two feet.
37:36
Speaker 2: You just passed me back.
37:38
Speaker 1: It still makes me craver. You can make me. Well,
37:48
Speaker 1: that's it from me for this week. Thanks to Joe
37:50
Speaker 1: for coming in. I'll not be on air on Saturday
37:54
Speaker 1: a adv flying solo, but I'll be other part run
37:56
Speaker 1: where blue is the Color. I see you all next
37:59
Speaker 1: time on one oh five point nine s M, online
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