This weekend's episode of SportSpiel is a little bit different - but arguably one of our most important shows.
On July 10 we hosted a
live panel organised by our wonderful charity partners
The Mintridge Foundation as part of their 28NotOut campaign – all about Mental Health and sport.
The event was held to raise money for the
Max Hunter fund, and Max was a hugely important person to a lot of people.
Tragically last year he died by suicide at the age of just 28.
So that was one of the aims of this live panel – to normalise the conversations around mental health and the benefit of sport. Helping us do that were four amazing panellists.
First up we had England Rugby and Leicester Tigers star Dan Cole who told us about some of his own experiences as well as plenty of rugby conversation along the way – from the highs of the 2019 World Cup to the lows of the 2015 tournament and battles with injury.
As well as Dan we were also joined by psychotherapist
Gemma Saggers, Liam Durkin from the
Papyrus charity who focus on the prevention of young suicide and also Dan Griffin from Stamford Rugby club who was a close friend of Max.
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