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Great to get the lads and mentors back outside doing some practical work on our community Engage Programme (reduced numbers and social distancing adhered to 😁). Fence building and fence painting, cleaning out / feeding the animals at Colchester’s MCTC’s farm....

Colchester and Tendring Men - we need you! Ladies - please forward this to the men in your life: relatives / friends / work colleagues. Be a small part in making a big difference!

Lads Need Dads would like to give a big shout out and thank you to Colchester Crusaders for raising £50 via your Sunday league players and others that donated towards our cause. Extra big up thanks to Jack @cackjalver for organising this! The money will go towards our...

Please listen and share below. We are recruiting Male volunteers to be reading mentors. Tendring and Colchester areas. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QU12YPqpw2TxetBu8IwrV…

Tune in now if you can - LND on: Actual Radio.

We want to share with you a poem written by one of our LND boys about his experience of his absent father, written in the context of how he felt prior to being on our programme. We have permission to post. It is very heartfelt and sadly summarises how many of the boys...

Seeking male volunteers ages 18-80! Colchester and Tendring areas. Now more than ever, school children will be in need of support when they return to school after such a long absence. We are excited to announce a new initiative we are piloting from September. If...

Big thanks to LND mentor Dave, putting his bike repair skills to good use yet again for another of our families who haven’t been as active as they would have liked due to their bikes being off-road. Another satisfied customer (or should I say), family. 😁...

We want to give a special thought to the many children who don’t have a father due to bereavement or separation today. This applies to many of the boys on our programmes. 💙