A project encouraging men to talk about their mental health has won a national award.
The 12th Man barbers shop project was launched in May, and saw 12 barbers trained to talk to their customers about how they feel.
The scheme, which was run by Outsiders Community Consultants and received £3,000 from the Norwich Clinical Commissioning Group, has now won the innovation section of the Mental Health First Aid awards.
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Judges told Oz Osborne, who runs the social enterprise, that it was a reminder that mental health first aid skills could be used anywhere at any time.
Mr Osborne said: 'In all honesty, the result has been amazing. I've worked on the national Time to Change mental health anti-stigma campaign since 2008 and in all the work I've done around the country, I've not witnessed anything that has more impact than we were able to create with this project.'
He said they had since worked with more barbers, retailers, a coffee shop, pub and fish bar.
Tracy Williams, chairman of the clinical commissioning group, said: 'This is such an innovative approach to reaching out and engaging men to talk about their health and wellbeing.
'We know that men are not generally good at accessing mainstream services for health care and in particular getting support when their mental health is causing a problem for them.'
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