This summer time, Shrewsbury is about to host the primary ever Summer season of Wellbeing – a six-week celebration operating from 21 July to 31 August 2025, with the goal of bringing the city, companies and residents collectively for optimistic, wellbeing-boosting actions.
Greater than 25 companies are on board to date and making ready to participate in a programme of occasions, trails and actions to drive footfall all through the city centre.
Led by native psychological well being and wellbeing skilled Annie Hambley, supported by Shrewsbury BID, the initiative will remodel the city right into a hub of creativity, motion, mindfulness and – most significantly – enjoyable.
Shrewsbury is about to host the primary ever Summer season of Wellbeing
On the coronary heart of the mission are two interactive city trails:
- The Comfortable Explorer Path for kids and households
- The Aware Meander for adults
Contributors will have the ability to choose up Passports to Wellbeing from taking part venues and accumulate stamps by collaborating in easy actions – for instance, making an attempt conscious menus, sketching in cafés, buying self-care gadgets, taking in a gallery exhibition or theatre present, or watching a movie on the Outdated Market Corridor.
Particular occasions will embody:
- Pop-up yoga and motion classes
- Wild wellbeing walks
- ‘Change Off and Sketch’ café corners
- Inventive workshops
- Sound baths and different different wellness actions
- Drop-in psychological well being help classes
- Free household actions and rather more.
Says organiser Annie Hambley:
“This summer time is about celebrating Shrewsbury’s unbiased companies and exquisite surroundings by providing folks the house to pause, breathe and revel in what’s round them – and guaranteeing everybody has the prospect to try this. There’s no ticket value, no stress – simply easy, joyful methods to really feel good, help your city and rediscover what actually issues.”
Occasions will happen throughout Shrewsbury city centre at venues together with Shrewsbury Library, the Museum & Artwork Gallery, and quite a few cafés, retailers, and inexperienced areas. The programme is designed to co-exist with and complement different occasions going down through the summer time holidays, akin to Shrewsbury Arts Path, which might be promoted as one of a big vary of conscious, wellbeing-boosting actions folks can take pleasure in on the town.
Seb Slater, Government Director, Shrewsbury BID, mentioned:
“This can be a celebration of Shrewsbury at its greatest. The city continues to buck traits and carry out as a hive of unbiased enterprise. It’s essential to convey folks into city to take pleasure in what Shrewsbury affords if we’re to maintain bucking these traits, and the Summer season of Wellbeing is simply one of many methods we’re aiming to try this.”
Becky Rawlins, whose enterprise Hopefully Made will host workshops and drop-in classes as a part of the programme, mentioned her enterprise is: “excited to be concerned in Shrewsbury’s first Summer season of Wellbeing. Supporting and elevating consciousness for folks fighting psychological well being is one thing that we deeply worth as a enterprise, and this is an opportunity for us to connect with our neighborhood, increase consciousness and showcase the unimaginable alternatives that our city’s companies have already got to supply folks!”
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The total programme of occasions might be introduced shortly. Observe @OriginalShrews on Instagram or go to originalshrewsbury.co.uk for updates.
For all media enquiries:
EJ Hopson-VandenBos
ej@shrewsburybid.co.uk
Communications and Engagement Lead, Shrewsbury BID
