Hey guys, I'm Tom, 40, and I live in Stoke Newington, been in London for 15 years. That's me at the bottom right of the photo.

Started noticing the guys I would normally spend time with – my uni friends, football team I play for – were becoming less and less available and left me feeling like I needed some male connection from time to time.

I set up a men's community called Shoulder to Shoulder with a pal called Dan (28) and it's grown to about 360 awesome guys.

We meet every other Sunday in Hyde Park for a walk and a coffee, sharing things we're finding challenging or stuff we've learnt which others might benefit from. Our next meet up is this Sunday at 11am in Hyde Park.

Have found Reddit to be an awesome place to connect with other guys – you can find a bit more about our values on our website below 🙂 all welcome!

https://shouldertoshoulder.carrd.co

by stroudtom

22 comments

  1. Great initiative and one I can see growing and growing ☺️

  3. That is so cool. If I lived in London I would come along. I lost touch with all my old friends years ago. It can be a lonely place sometimes even when living with my wife and daughter.

  8. You could set up a group on the Meetup app (if you haven’t already).

    I’ve joined walks and game nights on there.

    We went on a pirates history walk the other evening after work, it was good fun.

    Love what you’re doing! My work has some things set up for men to meet up, (dads & male carers).

    Oh just to add.. do you have socials for your walking group? I run newsletters for a charity, we have features for local news & events and as International Men’s Day is coming up I’ll be doing some features around d men’s wellbeing & activities, meet ups etc. 🙂

  9. Hope it goes well. I’m neither local nor have the time but in another life I’d be there.

  10. Genuine question, how do you handle it when someone begins espousing… not very appropriate rhetoric. Maybe for example a bloke sharing redpilled opinions or other alt right type situations?

    It’s an awesome inititive and i’m not knocking it at all, i’m just wary because I know very often lonely men find themselves down a pretty angry path (And things like your walk should hopefully be the antidoteto that)… so do you have a plan for handling andrew tate wannabes?

  11. lol I would look so out of place here. Don’t dress like any of these men.

  14. This is bloody lovely. Hope it stays dry for you on Sunday.

  17. The secular version of the Islamic all-male charity park run

  22. Lovely idea, but also sounds like my worst nightmare! Good luck with it.

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