Community Wellbeing Collective

The Community Wellbeing Collective is a community, made up of 32 people from and connected to Wester Hailes, that practise community wellbeing together. Running our public space, the Community Wellbeing Space, in Wester Hailes shopping centre providing free community wellbeing activities, run by our members, to enhance health, wellbeing, local action and create community cohesion. Through monthly ‘anchor events’ we invite external organisations to collaborate and connect people in solidarity, to the resources needed to fight the effects of poverty. These events explore a wider politics around wellbeing, with discussions, creative workshops and resources around current effects of the crisis and building ways to support one another through our struggles. 

Through our program we aim to combat a range of issues such as negative effects of poverty, social isolation and low mental health. We do this through the open space and communal activities that we will offer; a space in which people are free to sit and be, to connect with others. Through the skills and knowledge shared through our vast range of activities and the collaborations with range of local and national organisations and the vast range of community wellbeing activities that we provide ourselves such as mindfulness, zumba, creative writing, care cafes, baby stay and play, yoga, tango and colour meditation. These are examples in which we create physical and mental space for people to knit tighter support networks, develop skills and connect to further resources needed to not only survive but to thrive.

What is your website address?: https://watchthisspace.online/

Facebook address: www.facebook.com/communitywellbeingcollective

Twitter address: www.instagram.com/communitywellbeingcollective