Showcases

SaSS has over the years, run a number of showcases in Salisbury, each aiming to bring together a range of services and projects to a particular sector of the community. 

Our most recent Showcase was on Tuesday 16 September at Salisbury’s newly reopened City Hall. Some 200 people attended ‘Men Matters’, a free showcase of more than 40 stalls about activities, clubs, events, sports and social and wellbeing opportunities for men of all ages in and around Salisbury. 

With everything from classic bikes through football and rugby to gaming, the library offering and museum object handling, there was something to interest men of all ages. A wide range of support organisations attended to offer advice and information on everything from workplace stress, through wildlife and wellbeing to help with gambling addiction.

There were also free workshops on Writing for Wellbeing Workshop with best selling local author Tom Bromley, a DJ Workshop taster session with the Salisbury DJ Academy, Groove and Move with Dance Six-0 and Men’s Singing for Joy and Wellbeing with Liv McLennan.  

Frogg Moody and Roger Elliot gave illustrated talks about the musical heydays of the City Hall interspersed with music from the 60s, 70s and 80s in the nearby Vinyl Café.

One of the attendees told us: ‘Absolutely fantastic! Great networking, realising exactly the groups and kind of help that we have. So many people came in and talked with the different organisations.’

And a volunteer said: ‘Men Matters was a huge success. Thank you to the SaSS team at such a wonderful event to bring not only men into knowledge about the activities and support around them, but also the groups and individuals holding stalls who all worked together as one.’ 

Opening the Showcase, The Mayor of Salisbury Cllr John Wells told attendees of a rule crafted by youngsters at the primary school he previously led. ‘Look out for each other’ he felt summed up the offering at the newly revamped City Hall. He went on to say: ‘I am really pleased to see so many people here and can see that it is already a success.’ He went on to add: ‘I have only visited six stands and already I have found out things I didn’t know about the support that is available. As we know, men are not good at talking about things that are worrying them.’