Menslink Great Walk 2023: what to know and how to donate.

Campus Plus CEO, Nick McNaughton starts his gruelling 142km Menslink Great Walk from the 7th-11th of November. And he needs your help.

The Menslink Great Walk is long: longer than the Kokoda Track (96km) and further than the distance to Everest Base Camp (130km). It is an annual 142km fundraising walk held over 5 days in the Canberra region. CEO’s community leaders and senior executives join together to walk Canberra’s Centenary Trail to raise awareness and funds for Menslink.

Why Menslink matters

Menslink has been supporting young men in the Canberra region for over twenty years through providing free counselling, volunteer mentoring and education programs. Menslink has helped thousands of young men get through tough or lonely times with the least amount of pain or harm to themselves or those around them.

 

Menslink supports young men across our region by:

  1. encouraging them to speak up and get help, or inspire their mates to get help, through educational sessions in schools and other community groups;

  2. providing intensive short-term counselling to help them get through stressful life events with the least amount of harm to themselves and those around them; and

  3. longer-term mentoring support from positive male role models, especially for young guys who are socially isolated or for the 17% of young men who no longer live with their father.

Unfortunately, young men are overwhelmingly represented in adverse community statistics:

·       school dropout rates are nearly double

·       youth unemployment is 15% higher

·       juvenile justice system has a 9:1 ratio, rising to more than 50:1 in the adult system

·       4 in 5 suicides are men and it remains the leading cause of male death in every age group from 15-44.

Each year, more young men die by their own hand than our entire national road toll.

 

We need your help

 

MensLink Great Walk 2022 participants.

Nick with his wife and youngest daughter.

Campus Plus CEO and co-founder Nick McNaughton has been invited to particpate in the Great Menslink Walk for the second time. He has been training for months, and must spend the week away from his family as he walks the Centennary Trail with a group of other leaders.

Each Menslink Great Walk participant commits to raising $10,000. All private donations over $2 are tax deductable.

Please donate to help Nick McNaughton reach his goal of $10,000 here: https://www.menslinkgreatwalk.com.au/nick-mcnaughton-campus-plus

 
 

Nick after completing the Menslink Great Walk 2022.

The map of the Menslink Great Walk.

Image supplied by Menslink

Ruby McNaughton

Ruby is an aspiring journalist focusing on female founders in Canberra. She recently returned from working as a ski instructor in Canada and is overjoyed that she gets to pursue two dreams so close to each other.

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