Come to our free Feel Good Festival: Camberwell Green: Mind & Body, Sat 8 July, 11am-3pm • Ruskin Park: Growth & Wellbeing, Sat 15 July 11am-3pm
SE5 Forum’s Feel Good Festival on Camberwell Green last summer was a fantastic success and attracted nearly 1000 visitors.
This summer, we are inviting all the community in Camberwell to our Feel Good Festival 2023 with two free health and wellbeing events.
• Come down for free food, music, henna and face painting.
• Stay to join in free taster sessions for all ages: from exercise, yoga, tai chi, chair-based exercise and roller skating, to arts and crafts, nutrition and children’s tasty treats workshops and community gardening.
• Get essential community health support – with food banks and pantries, and vital mini-health checks, mental health advice and signposting from the NHS.
All free for all the community.
The festival brings together local organisations and charities, health professionals, food banks and pantries, health organisations and volunteers, all offering their services for free.
This year, the festival is generously supported by King’s College Hospital Charity supportkings.org.uk and Changing Lives, Lambeth Council’s Social Values Fund lambeth.gov.uk/changing-lives
Key partners in the festival are Partnership Southwark, Southwark Pensioners Centre, Friends of Ruskin Park, the Lambeth Together’s Health & Wellbeing Bus, Spring Community Hub, and Healthy Living Platform. Local dad Pete Lewis, who runs design studio Mr Pete Lewis, has created publicity designs for the event free of charge and photographs were kindly supplied by local photographer . Thanks to Good Gym for help with setting up our event.
Mind & Body – Camberwell Green, Saturday 8 July, 11am-3pm
Get fit and active with live music and exercise with Shake da Brass and roller skating, or gentle chair-based yoga and Chi Kung.
Get creative with mindful, crafty fun like ‘Knit a Tree’.
Get vital health checks and signposting from Partnership Southwark offering help with your physical and mental health.
Calm yourself with mindfulness, yoga or life-coaching.
Enjoy a free Community Kitchen feast from Spring Community Hub, plus children’s tasty treats workshops, face-painting, henna tattoos and local choirs.
Growth & Wellbeing – Ruskin Park, 15 July, 11am-3pm
Improve your mental and physical wellbeing with free gardening sessions and tree walks, yoga, tai chi and zumba, mindful art workshops such as clay modelling.
Listen to music from a local choir, or get a unique henna tattoo, all in the beautiful, uplifting setting of the park.
Stay well with a mini-health check and signposting to local services at the Lambeth Together’s Health & Wellbeing Bus.
Taste delicious free smoothies from Healthy Living Platform, who will be running their community food pantry.
For more information, please email: admin@se5forum.org.uk.
The full programme will soon be available here.
Camberwell’s Free Feel Good Festival