Welcome to Episode 29 of The Happy Somedays Podcast

On 22nd March 2025, as part of our 5th birthday celebrations, members of Happy Somedays will be taking on a mammoth fundraising walk across Manchester taking in 5 football grounds along the way. Starting at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, we will pass Manchester United’s Old Trafford, Altrincham FC’s Moss Lane, Wythenshawe Town’s Ericstan Park and end at Wythenshawe FC’s Community Stadium at Hollyhedge Park. We are doing this to raise funds for new equipment and to keep sessions for all activities at a continually low cost with half of whatever we raise going towards this and the other half going to a nominated charity.
That nominated charity we have chose is Mero’s World Foundation

Mero’s World was set up by Kelly Brown in memory of her sonRhamero ‘Mero’ West, who was tragically killed as a result of a stab wound to the leg in 2021. Over the last 4 years, Kelly has turned her grief into action, campaigning across the community to raise awareness of knife crime. She has visited educational and correctional facilities such as schools, colleges and prisons to tell her story and help to prevent further knife crime from happening in the community. She has also overseen the installation of over 60 Bleed Boxes across Manchester installed in Mero’s memory, with some being used to help save lives as recently as December 2024. Kelly is doing incredible work and our aim is to raise enough money to buy another bleed box for Kelly to install, making them become even more accessible and work just like defibrillators in that anyone can use them should they need to.

Kelly’s story is inspiring, but the events leading to it isharrowing, and we obviously touch upon knife crime and death upon this episode. Listener discretion is advised.

To find out more about Mero’s World Foundation, visit theirwebsite at www.merosworld.org.uk

To donate to our fundraiser that is hoping to raise enough to buy a new BleedBox for Manchester, visit our Go Fund Me page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/happy-somedays-charity-walk

To sign up to our walk and be part of any of the legs (Youdon’t have to do it all if you don’t want to!) sign up via Pembee here: https://happysomedays.pembee.app/activity/677d47f88338291897d06ff8