Renew Wellbeing

Quiet shared spaces where it's OK not to be OK

Renew Wellbeing helps churches open spaces of welcome and inclusion in partnership with mental health teams to improve mental and emotional wellbeing.

Renew spaces are simple cafe style spaces run by local churches where hobbies and activities are shared or co-produced. Each cafe space is attached to a quiet room or prayer space where inner habits of wellbeing are shared. Each church partners with a mental health professional from the local council to ensure good inclusive practices for safe spaces where it's OK not to be OK can be sustained.

Being present • Being prayerful • Being in partnership

Renew Wellbeing provides information, inspiration, training and ongoing support to local churches as well as developing a simple national strategy for many small safe spaces to be made available through churches and councils working together.

While the Renew spaces are closed temporarily due to the Covid-19 outbreak they have produced some online training for churches looking at setting up an online Renew Community with a view to opening an actual Renew space once restrictions have been removed and we are able to meet in person again.   Watch this video in which Renew Wellbeing Founder, Ruth Rice, invites churches wanting to prepare to serve their community’s wellbeing and explains the training currently on offer online.