The 17 Percent of Men are starting to get a few enquiries now, so we should be able to begin group meetings in Hereford in the next few months. No doubt to begin with it may be a smallish group, but as we become more widely known throughout the county our groups will become more numerous and frequent. There are many men in Herefordshire who were sexually abused. We will be asking for a suggested donation of £5 at each meeting, if men are able to give this. This is to defray t

The flyers about the 17 Percent of Men and its purpose have been sent out to all the GP surgeries in Herefordshire. Our aim is simply to allow men to talk of their childhood abuse in a safe and supportive environment. Men who have been sexually abused need to make sense of what happened to them as children in order to move on. Sometimes abuse is not dealt with for 5, 10, 20, 30, 40 years or more after the event. The blame isn’t ours and the shame isn’t ours, although for man