We can provide positive, meaningful opportunities for you to grow academically, personally, and mentally. Our health and wellbeing courses can help you be happier and healthier.
Move more
Physical activity has lots of benefits, it can:
- improve your balance
- reduce stress
- strengthen your bones and muscles
- reduce your health risks
Our activities include:
- Tai-chi
- improve your health and wellbeing through chair-based exercise
- mindful walking for adults with learning disabilities
Eat well
Healthy food doesn't have to be boring and it doesn't need to be expensive. Eating well can help:
- improve your mood
- reduce your health risks
- make you feel better
- save you money
Our courses include:
- supported learning - healthy cooking on a budget for adults with learning disabilities
- Multiply - autumn cooking on a budget
- cooking in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)
- community gardening
Feel better
Activities can help improve our mental wellbeing. We can start to feel more positive by learning new skills and meeting new people. Our courses can help you to:
- improve your mood
- make you feel better
- feel less isolated
Our courses include:
- wellness through creativity - transforming fashion with print and stitch
- gardening for wellbeing
- Italian beginners
- a moment of calm - for parents and carers
Find out about our health and wellbeing courses and book a place
Brightside: free friendly courses
Brightside courses are for anyone experiencing mild to moderate mental ill health. Our courses can help you find ways to manage your mental health. Learn new self-care techniques that work for you to cope with stress and anxiety and find calmness. Join courses that interest you, share experiences, give support and make friends.
Sometimes things can feel a bit overwhelming, our courses give you the support to manage your worries and live a happier life.
New Brightside model
Brightside courses are free. There may be a small charge for materials for some courses.
The new Brightside model follows the academic terms.
You can attend a maximum of 4, 6-week courses over a year (one per half-term).
Each course runs for 2 hours a week for 6 weeks.
You can choose to stay with the same subject for all 4 courses, or change and try different subjects.
You then can join a 6-week tutor led support group.
There is an opportunity to form a peer-led support group for 6 weeks.
Some of the types of courses that we offer are:
- Brightside - photography for mindfulness
- Brightside - art journaling
- Brightside - Tai Chi
- Brightside - creative writing
Find out more about Brightside
If you are interested in a Brightside course for a community group, please contact us to find out what else we can offer.
If you are interested in the Brightside programme for yourself, a friend or someone you work with, you can: