Workplace Talks
Bring honest, lived-experience mental health conversations into your workplace or construction site.
Explore talks →CONSTRUCTION BUDDIES AND BENTLEY MENTAL HEALTH
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.
WHY WE EXIST
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
Bring honest, lived-experience mental health conversations into your workplace or construction site.
Explore talks →A car that gets attention for the right reason — helping people stop, read, talk and open up.
Discover Bentley Mental Health →Plain-speaking books created to help people, families and workplaces start difficult conversations.
See all five books →For organisations that want to show support through practical action, not just a poster on the wall.
Explore the Commitment →FIVE BOOKS — ONE PURPOSE
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
Support the work, invite Construction Buddies to your workplace, share the message or simply ask someone twice how they are.
ONE LAST THING
Ask twice. How are you? How are you really?
NEED SUPPORT?
Our Get Help page brings together UK support for mental health, suicide crisis, alcohol, drugs, gambling and domestic abuse.