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