Welcome to the Renew Wellbeing North weekly blog page to keep you updated with all things Renew across the North of England and sometimes nationally! I am Fiona Firestone, if we haven’t already met, I am the co-ordinator for the North of England and I live in East Lancashire with my husband, Mark and 6 very naughty cats.  If we zoom, there is a very good chance you might meet them!

This is why I’m passionate about Renew Wellbeing:

Renew Wellbeing (www.renewwellbeing.org.uk) 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 or other suitable organisation to ensure good inclusive practices for safe spaces where it’s OK not to be OK can be sustained.  

Being prayerful • Being present • 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. 

Read a short blog on the Hope 15:3 website written by Ruth in which she shares her story and the beginnings of Renew Wellbeing

This page will feature any events taking place relating to Renew Wellbeing, so check in each week to keep up to date. 

• If you click on OUR CENTRES, you will be linked to the map on the main Renew Wellbeing website of our centres across the UK.
• You can also use the contact tab to message me with any questions that you may have