Movember
Get involved
What is Movember? Movember is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness of men’s health issues. Help us make a difference by getting involved with Movember events and offers this November.
£5 Gym Day Pass Free health checks OddPod The Shed MOVEMBER run Moves+ Challenge Tennis Showcase 5-a-side tournament Sports clubs and societies
£5 Gym Day Pass
Being active plays a pivotal role in improving your mental and physical health. We are offering a 1-day Gym Pass for £5 on Tuesday 19 November and Monday 25 November only.
- Location: Sports and Wellness Hub
- Dates: Tuesday 19 and Monday 25 November
On your chosen day, claim your pass either online, via our app or in person at the Sports and Wellness Hub reception, and get moving!
*Select Memberships > select Public, Student, or Staff > 1 day pass
Free health checks
It’s so important to look after your physical health. Working in collaboration with Warwick Medical School, we are offering FREE general health checks for staff, students and community members. The checks will cover key areas such as BMI and blood pressure as well as offering guidance on ways you can look after your health.
- Location: Multi-Purpose Room, Sports and Wellness Hub
- Dates: Starting Thursday 31 October. Running every Thursday and Friday until Thursday 12 December (excluding Friday 15 November)
- Times: 9.00am - 3.00pm
OddPod - Check Yourself!
The OddBalls Foundation is coming to the piazza and bringing their ‘Odd Pod’, raising awareness for testicular cancer. The Foundation aims to make a difference to male health around the world.
- Location: Main campus, piazza
- Dates: Tuesday 19 November (International Men’s Day)
- Times: 9.00am - 4.00pm
The Shed: It Takes Balls To Talk
Over the summer of 2024, Warwick Arts Centre’s carpenter Philip Roe built a bothy shed in collaboration with a community of men brought together by campaign founder, Dr Alex Cotton.
Between 16 - 30 November, It Takes Balls To Talk will host activities in and around the shed with community and medical-based partners, to encourage safe discourse about mental health.
The structure will also be open throughout the month as a space to dwell, converse and reflect. It will then be donated back to a local community group as a legacy project to help “shed” the light on these important issues to those most in need.
- Location: Warwick Arts Centre (Foyer)
- Dates: Saturday 16 – Saturday 30 November
- Times: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Movember Run
Participate in a 5K Wellbeing Run around campus, to raise awareness for Movember. At the end of this run, you will be invited to help paint The Shed being built in the Arts Centre.
- Location: Start and finish outside Warwick Arts Centre
- Dates: Wednesday 6 November
- Times: 8.00am
*search ‘Wellbeing 5K Run’ on the app to book
Suicide Awareness Talk from Dr Alex Cotton
Trigger warning: This talk will include references to mental health including suicide.
Dr Alex Cotton MBE, Hon DSc Warwick University, who is the founder of the “It Takes Balls to Talk” charity, has worked inside the NHS mental health services for over 20 years and then went to work alongside West Midlands Police as a Street Triage Nurse (a mental health nurse that responds to mental health emergencies with the police). The model of this charity is to take messages and create awareness to where people are, especially men with suicide being the highest cause of death amongst men under 45.
“It Takes Balls to Talk” regularly attend major sporting events to promote mental health awareness.
- Location: Warwick Arts Centre
- Dates: Tuesday 26 November
- Times: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Sports Clubs and Societies
Find out how our Sports Clubs and Societies are supporting Movember. There are lots of events to sign up to including a 5-a-side football tournament, charity quiz, board games fundraiser and a spicy noodle challenge.
- Location: Various locations around campus and Leamington
- Dates: 1 - 30 November
- Times: Various