Workplace Talks
Bring honest, lived-experience mental health conversations into your workplace or construction site.
Explore talks →CONSTRUCTION BUDDIES AND BENTLEY MENTAL HEALTH
From Suicide Attempts
to Saving Lives.
Building Support. Building Lives.
Construction Buddies brings together lived experience, workplace awareness, our five books and Bentley Mental Health — all with one purpose: getting people talking and helping save lives.
Behind every hard hat is a human being.
The Bentley gets attention for the right reason.People stop to look at the car. Then they read the story, start talking and often open up about their own lives. That is what Bentley Mental Health is all about.
50Years in construction
5Books — one purpose
BENTLEYMental Health
REALLived experience
WHY WE EXIST
Changing the conversation across construction.
Construction Buddies was created from lived experience and decades working in the construction industry. The aim is simple: help people talk, help people listen, and make support feel human.
From building sites and workplace talks to car events, books and Bentley Mental Health, every part of the work is designed to start conversations that might otherwise never happen.
BE PART OF IT
There is more than one way to make a difference.
Bentley Mental Health
A car that gets attention for the right reason — helping people stop, read, talk and open up.
Discover Bentley Mental Health →Five Books
Plain-speaking books created to help people, families and workplaces start difficult conversations.
See all five books →Mental Health Commitment
For organisations that want to show support through practical action, not just a poster on the wall.
Explore the Commitment →FIVE BOOKS — ONE PURPOSE
Five books created to start conversations.
From Michael's personal journey and construction mental health to suicide, social media and the people behind our food, every book has been written with the same purpose: to help people understand, talk and know they are not alone.
Explore all 5 books
JOIN THE CONVERSATION
Help us build a construction industry where nobody feels they have to struggle alone.
Support the work, invite Construction Buddies to your workplace, share the message or simply ask someone twice how they are.
ONE LAST THING
This isn't about building a brand.
It's about building conversations that could save a life.
Ask twice. How are you? How are you really?
NEED SUPPORT?
You do not have to face a difficult moment alone.
Our Get Help page brings together UK support for mental health, suicide crisis, alcohol, drugs, gambling and domestic abuse.