Welcome to our JustGiving page.  Thankyou all for your donations so far!!!! 

After postponing our topless challenge for the last couple of years due to COVID, we are now back with a new challenge!!

3 countries, 2 days, 1 challenge......no roofs!

We are a just group of everyday, normal Dads, from a varying array of backgrounds who live in a small rural setting.  Each of us know someone who has chosen to take their own life, including members of our own community, parents, just like us, and even our own family members.   When a situation like that occurs, regardless of how well you knew the person,  it is very difficult to not think about why and wonder if there was anything, no matter how small, that you could have done.  We also identified that, as typical blokes, we never take the opportunity to discuss our darker thoughts.    

The Topless Challenge is our attempt at doing something.  We have obtained a few old, convertible cars and are completing road trips, with the car tops down, regardless of conditions.  We are doing this to promote positive mental well being for ourselves and for others, whilst trying to raise a little bit of money along the way!   Getting together to organise the website and what we are doing in the cars has created different environments for us talk and learn things about ourselves that we may not have known before.  On top of that it is great fun to go out in the cars...……….rain, shine or snow!!   

We have completed some smaller trips already (see www.toplesschallenge.org) and plan on driving the approximate 500 mile round trip through Wales, Scotland and England on the 14th and 15th January 2023, Just before Blue Monday!

So if you like what we are doing, please help us to raise money for MIND so that they can continue their excellent work in promoting positive Mental Health for us all.   Alternatively, feel free to organise your own Topless Challenge and share with us your trips though our website!!

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