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In Short

Our Wellbeing Cafés offer weekly face-to-face sessions for residents of Waltham Forest aged 18 years or older who experience low mood, anxiety, loneliness, or social isolation.

The Wellbeing Cafés are run from The Annex, Good Shepherd Studios. The cafés offer light refreshments, social time, wellbeing sessions, activities, advice and learning sessions to choose from. These are open to members only. Here are the details.

The details

Wellbeing Café – open access:
The Annex, Good Shepherd Studios, 15A Davies Ln, Leytonstone, London E11 3DR;
Tuesdays, 10:30am- 1:00pm (from 11th November to 27th January).

Women-only Wellbeing Café:
The Annex, Good Shepherd Studios, 15A Davies Ln, Leytonstone, London E11 3DR;
Thursdays, 10:30am – 1:00pm (from 13th November to 29th January).

Further information:
– If you don’t live in Waltham Forest but your GP or healthcare is in Waltham Forest, you can still apply.
– You are welcome to attend with a friend or a relative; we will ask them to fill in a membership form too.

What it’s about:

  • Providing person-centred, sensitive and culturally appropriate service for participants of the Wellbeing Cafés including one to one checking-in and chat by a staff member or a volunteer with individual participants, who might for whatever reason not feel at ease to join in with the offered activities so they feel they can attend a session even when “ having a bad day” and that they can be themselves in the sessions.
  • Offering activities, information, advice, signposting to other local community services and activities centred around the 5 ways to wellbeing.
  • Tackling wider determinants of health and mental wellbeing by connecting service users to practical support, including food and fuel aid, financial welfare advice and employment support.
  • Creating personalised progression routes for participants to join further community activities, groups, services and learning and volunteering opportunities after they have completed a term at a Wellbeing Café.

Activities will be centred on the Five Ways to Wellbeing, and so will provide you with the opportunity to Connect, Get Active, Take Notice, Learn and Give.

Membership

Membership is free and limited to up to 10 weeks per member so we can offer this opportunity to more people.

Members will also be signposted and linked to other opportunities such as activities, groups, volunteering, learning, and training.

Please fill in the membership form with your health-care professional (e.g. social prescriber, nurse, mental health practitioner, care-coordinator).

Wellbeing Café Referral Form

Name
Gender
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Emergency contact name
A disabled person is defined under the Equality Act 2010 as someone with a ‘physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on that person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.’
Referral source (please choose one)
Has the verbal consent being given by a referred Member for their details to be shared with a Wellbeing Café provider?*
*please see a GDPR statement at the end of the form.
(e.g. access needs, what you find challenging in a new environment or with new people)
Member’s Expectations/Needs (tick as many as you would like)
It might be helpful to think about what your goals are and what you would like to achieve. During your membership we will introduce you to other opportunities – wellbeing activities, groups, volunteering, learning and training you can do later on.
Consent
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