Walk 'n' Talk

A non for profit charity designed to raise awareness around mental health and prevent mental illness within our community and regional Queensland

18/12/2025

If you’re in Bunnings and spot a hat, It’s yours.
A small thank you from us to you.
Merry Christmas, legends 👍🏼

16/12/2025

Last Rocky Men’s Catch-Up for 2025

This Saturday | 7–9am
📍 Poppies Café, Huish Drive

This is about blokes getting around blokes.
Standing shoulder to shoulder.
Having a yarn. Sharing a laugh.

Here’s the truth: blokes need blokes.
It’s proven strong male connections improve mental health, reduce stress, and increase longevity. Men who stay connected live longer. Full stop.

That’s what this is built on: mateship.
Just real conversations, real connection, and time with the lads.

☕ Free coffee or drink of choice
🔥 BBQ on
🍩 Galactic Donuts
🎧 Brady on the decks
💪🏼ASN Rocky will akao be in attendance

If you’ve been before, you know how good it feels.
If you haven’t this is your sign.

Bring a mate. Or come solo you’ll be welcomed either way.

Walk in heavy. Walk away lighter. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Thanks to event sponsors

And thanks to our charity partners

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- For showcasing out ads accross CQ

WinTv - for your support and helping push around platform in 2026 across win tv.

14/12/2025

Blokes backing blokes. Simple as that.
Big respect to the legends who roll up, grab a coffee, and have a yarn.
No pressure. No fixing. Just showing up.

There’s honestly no better way to start a Saturday.
You always walk away feeling a bit lighter, guaranteed.

Rocky Walk ’n’ Talk is on this Saturday, 20th December.
📍 Poppies Café
⏰ 7am
Rock up solo or bring a mate you’ll be welcomed either way. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

11/12/2025

CONNECTION BEFORE DIRECTION 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

Here’s the thing most blokes don’t realise until life smacks them in the chest:
You can’t rebuild your life alone.
You need people. You need mates.

Our vision has always been simple: community first, connection always.
Because when we had the wind knocked out of us.
it wasn’t a program, a policy, or a clipboard that pulled us back up.

It was people.
It was mateship.
It was someone standing beside us.

Right now, too many men are doing life in silent mode.
Not hiding in their houses, hiding in themselves.

And this silence is costing us:
Husbands, fathers, sons....

Not because they didn’t care. Because some of them didn’t feel connected enough to speak up.

Every bloke wants better outcomes.
Less stress, More direction, More confidence.
More clarity.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:
You can’t get direction without connection.

Connection builds trust.
Trust opens honesty.
Honesty creates direction.
That’s the order always has been.

When a bloke finally feels understood…

That’s when the needle moves.
That’s when outcomes actually shift.

Connection isn’t the warm-up.
Connection is the work. 👊🏽

09/12/2025

Last men’s catch-up for the year. Been sitting on the fence? Mate… hop off it. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

This Saturday 13-12-25 , 7–9am at East Shores Parklands (right beside Auckland House).

No pressure. No agenda. Come for the chat plenty of banter, a free BBQ brekky, free coffee or whatever you drink… and either a Walk ’n’ Talk or just kicking back by the BBQ.

Come with your mates or rock up solo, either way, you’re welco you won’t be out of place.

Because this is what it’s about:
Men showing up. Checking in. Having a chat. Normalising the stuff we all go through.

If you’ve been meaning to come, this is the one to make.

Lock it in. Set the alarm. Be there.
Saturday. 7–9am. East Shores.

Thanks to Brett and the team from Leisure Pools Gladstone for coming on board and sponsoring a local charity, looking for a pool hes your guy👍🏼

05/12/2025

Yesterday we attended Aurizon Rockhampton to speak with the team about Walk ‘n’ Talk who we are, what we do, and why we do it.

We shared our vision, our mission, and the real-world reason this charity exists: because mental health struggles are real, they’re happening in silence, and blokes and families in our communities deserve better support.

A massive thank you to the 100 staff who showed up and prioritised us sharing a conversation.

When a workplace chooses to invest in the mental health of its people, it doesn’t just change the culture it changes lives. Conversations like yesterday’s are often the spark that stops someone from carrying their battles alone and building a more connected work place.

We’re looking forward to building on this connection and continuing to support your team in any way we can.

If even one person walked away feeling lighter, seen, or a little more understood that’s the work that matters. And we’re just getting started. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

04/12/2025

$25,422 Raised 👊🏽

Rockhampton Charity Boxing 🧠🥊

A massive shout-out to Brandt we are forever grateful once again choosing Walk ’n’ Talk as the charity partner. You didn’t just run an event you helped shine a bright light on men’s mental health, and that matters more than most people will ever know.

To the community who showed up, to for hosting and supporting the event, and to every single person who supported the night thank you. This movement only exists because people like you keep stepping up.

And to the fighters…
You didn’t just step into the ring for yourselves you stepped in for every bloke who’s struggling in silence. It takes guts to do what you did.
There were no losers last night. Every single one of you walked out a winner.

To the sponsors backing each fighter and the event your support helps us keep doing the work that no one else is funded to do. Men’s mental health receives zero national funding, yet we lose 7 men every single day who couldn’t fight for one more round.
That’s why what you all did last night matters.
That’s why this community matters.

Together, through sponsorships, fighter support, and the auction, we raised an incredible $25,422 money that will go straight back into our Walk ’n’ Talk Hub.
This Hub will be a home for men and families.

2026 is shaping up to be massive and our goal is to have the doors open early in the new year.

We’re also working to push more support toward the youth in our region, because the next generation deserves better mental health support than what we had. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

02/12/2025

One of the truest blokes you’ll ever meet. We’re bloody grateful our paths crossed with Mark a genuine mate, a solid human, and someone who understands the real weight men carry.

Thanks for showing up with raw honesty, mate. Your message landed because it came from someone who’s lived it.
Happy 60th you deserve every bit of celebration.

Seeing you wear that custom Walk ’n’ Talk watch, made locally by PRKN Watches and organised by Narelle and the family… that meant a lot. Moments like this remind us why we do what we do, because blokes need looking after, and Walk ’n’ Talk is here for exactly that.

Here’s to you, Mark. One of the real ones 💚

If you’ve been carrying a bit too much lately, reach out.

Don’t do it alone, come join us at a Walk ’n’ Talk. One conversation can change everything.

01/12/2025

Massive thanks to Michael's Miles for Mental Health for walking Rockhampton, Yeppoon and Gladstone to raise funds for us and Men's Mental Health, Michael Luhr and the crew walked 100km over the 3 days.

With the support of U-Change Consulting and Craig Marshall for Rockhampton they managed to raise $2900 which is going to go a long way towards continuing to grow our Hub and help Men and Families in the community!

This is what it's all about. Community and People coming together, setting one foot in front of the other and taking the steps towards a stronger, better future for all of us.

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Rockhampton, QLD

Website

https://walkntalkcollective.org.au/

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