About Us

As someone who suffers with depression himself Tim Cox created Bottled Up Blokes to try and help men open up about their mental health, addictions and other life struggles on a safe, non judgemental platform. 

From starting the Bottled Up Blokes private Facebook group we have tried to spread more awareness and offer further support by opening a twitter/X account, having a small WhatsApp group, and hosting weekly mens support groups in South Normanton, Hucknall and Nottingham which we call BUB HUBs.

We host a weekly football session at Tibshelf Community School. This to help men with their physical and mental health. This is run by the BUB captains, some of which are mental health first aider trained. Any men 18+ can attend this session.

Bottled Up Blokes teamed up with Nottingham Forest Community Trust in June 2023 and have started holding weekly BUB HUBs in Hucknall. June 2024 we open another BUB HUB in Nottingham, at The Portland Centre with the support of the Notts County Foundation. In February 2025 we opened our first BUB Club to help people who may be lonely or want to meet new people. On 17th March we will be opening the doors to our first veterans support group too, offering a space for current and past serving veterans. We hope to open more BUB HUBs in Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas in the coming months.

All of our BUB HUB facilitators are mental health first aider and BUB facilitator trained. We offer support based on our own personal experiences and will signpost people to the relevant support services if required.

We have been actively trying to promote Bottled Up Blokes having been on BBC Radio Derby, BBC East Midlands Today and have also been interviewed by BolsoverTV.

We hope in the future that the we may be able to open more Bottled Up Blokes weekly support groups in different areas, that the football sessions will go from strength to strength and we will reach more men in need of support.

Along with Ben, Tim and Matt Harwood we also have Ady, John, Aaron, Antony, Matt Jones, Ryan, James, Liam, Tom and Paul who volunteer with running the BUB HUBs, football session and veterans group.