Oral Presentation (max 20 mins including Q&A) National Men's Health Gathering 2025

The Men's Table - our story to date (129395)

David Pointon 1 , Wayne Krueger 1
  1. The Men's Table, Sydney, NSW, Australia

At the beginning of 2019, twelve men had been meeting monthly for 7.5 years as the first, and only Men's Table.

Nearly 7 years on and The Men's Table now has over 250 Tables nationally, and a growing body of evaluation evidence showing the impacts.

We've learned a lot about the challenges and opportunities of scaling a community led, peer group model.

(We've also learned a lot about; activating in regional and metropolitan communities around the country; building healthy peer groups; the kinds of support needs of groups as they evolve;  growing a volunteer workforce; navigating the funding landscape; developing robust evaluation)

We'd like to share with you a bit of our story