âI think one of the challenges we will have will be people coming in and not wanting to wear masks and things like that,â he said. âPeople just want to get on with it now and get back to normality, whatever that is.â
During lockdown, McNeil has been expanding. As well as the premises on Spencer Road â which he is about to join up with the coffee shop next door â he owns two other barbershops, a sunbed shop and skateboarding shop, and is about to open a skateboarding park.
Though he enjoyed the extra time at home with his children, he says he likes to be busy and his new ventures were âmainly to keep myself active . . . I think it would be very easy to get stuck in a rut.â
UK Barbers unite to launch OurDoorIsOpen campaign inspiring men to open up about mental health
The campaign is being led by The Lions Barber Collective which has trained over 2,500 barbers around the UK and beyond to further support their customers, through it’s clinically backed Barber Talk programme
GOOD TO TALK: Barbershops generate conversation
BARBERS ACROSS the UK have joined forces to launch a new initiative that aims to inspire men to open up about mental health issues.
As hairdressers in England finally reopen their doors on April 12 to eager customers, barbers from Torquay to Tynemouth and beyond are launching the #OurDoorIsOpen campaign in a bid to ensure those whose mental health has been badly affected by lockdown get the support they need.
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Darron Love died in December 2019 after a life-long struggle with depression
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Money raised by the wife of an Ipswich-born writer, who took his own life, will go towards training barbers in how to spot signs of someone suffering with their mental health.
Darron Love was born and raised in Ipswich, before moving to Wokingham in Berkshire with his wife and two children in 2011, and penned two Annie s Grannies children s books.
The 48-year-old struggled with depression all his adult life and after receiving news that a complicated injury would leave him incapacitated for months or a year, he died by suicide on December 13, 2019.