{"id":280964,"date":"2025-07-21T21:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280964\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:43:10","slug":"north-yorkshire-mayor-commits-3m-to-physical-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/280964\/","title":{"rendered":"North Yorkshire Mayor commits \u00a33m to physical and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Galdas, Chair of the Men&#8217;s Mental Health Taskforce said it was important to  &#8220;meet men where they are&#8221; and &#8220;adapting our services to fit the unique needs of men in our area&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lynne James, Manager of York-based mental health charity Mainstay, supported the allocation of funding but said she had &#8220;reservations&#8221; about how it would be distributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s saying &#8216;we&#8217;re not doing anything new- what we&#8217;re going to try and do with this money is find ways that isolated communities, rural communities can access existing projects and sports activities&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[But] That&#8217;s where I&#8217;m holding my breath to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within rural communities, I think it&#8217;s going to be more difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It depends how well organised the infrastructure of the rural communities is and what sports facilities already exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Galdas, Chair of the Men&#8217;s Mental Health Taskforce said it was important to &#8220;meet men where they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-280964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114893409668910240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}