A woman from Tidworth has set up a ‘menopause café’ to support women going through the menopause.

Amy Young, 48, runs the café once a month at Tidworth civic centre, and was inspired after starting menopause herself.

She said: “It was when I started HRT that I started to feel so much better. Everything I had dealt with over the last four or five years was perimenopause. It also made me think why our doctors didn’t even suggest that to me.”

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The menopause café movement began in Scotland in 2017 and has since spread worldwide.

The Tidworth café runs on a Monday evening. “It’s just to open the conversation about it”, Amy said, “make it less of a taboo subject really. It’s somewhere people can go and chat about menopause.

"It’s really helpful to chat to other women going through it – you feel quite isolated, it soon becomes clear that you are really not. You are not alone.”

'You feel quite isolated, it soon becomes clear you are really not''You feel quite isolated, it soon becomes clear you are really not' (Image: Amy Young/Tidworth Council)

The café works as a discussion group, without an agenda, to listen and discuss with other people with how they are feeling and coping.

It’s also open to men, colleagues, family and friends who wish to learn more.

The next café will run on October 7 from 6.30pm – 8.30pm. For more information, visit the Facebook page here.