News & Events
You will find details of all our upcoming events and our news here.
Autumn 2024 Courses
WELLIES has now confirmed our Autumn 2024 courses. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity, and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Autumn...
Summer Courses 2024
WELLIES has now confirmed our Summer 2024 courses. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity, and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Summer...
Autumn Courses 2023
WELLIES has now confirmed our Autumn 2023 courses. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity, and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Autumn...
Spring Courses 2023
WELLIES has now confirmed our Spring 2023 courses. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity, and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Spring...
Autumn 2022 Courses
WELLIES has now confirmed our Autumn 2022 courses. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity, and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Autumn...
Summer 2022 Courses
WELLIES has a variety of courses available for Summer 2022. Our courses include a variety of activities with animals, plants, creativity and the countryside and are specifically aimed at people recovering from mental ill health such as anxiety and depression. Summer...
New – ‘Friends of the WELLIES Project’ facebook page
Have you liked our new WELLIES venture? https://www.facebook.com/welliesproject ‘Friends of the WELLIES Project’ has been set up as a social enterprise arm to The WELLIES Project to create opportunities for learners to make and sell some of the fantastic things the...
Free WELLIES/Enable Traineeships available
Are you, or someone you know, unemployed and aged 16-24?Are you looking to learn a new skill?Are you resident in Staffordshire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire? Our new traineeships could be for you!! We are looking to offer a 70-hour work placement over 6 weeks in...
Virtual WELLIES is LIVE
Tutors and WELLIES staff have been working hard behind the scenes for learning to carry on in a positive way. We have set up separate Facebook groups for each course. This will enable us to carry on with WELLIES in a new and innovative way. Each day in the separate...
Recent feedback
A sample of the participant feedback following a 12 week Woodwork and a 6 week Floristry course, Autumn 2019: “Excellent course, learnt an array of new skills, met some fantastic people, improved my mental health and wellbeing tenfold. Loved every second I was here,...
Keep in Touch Days
Dates and details for your diary. Keep in Touch Days for people who no longer attend WELLIES but would like to keep in touch
What does WELLIES mean to me?
As we come to the end of another term at WELLIES we asked this question to our participants and the answers we got were amazing. As Julie White says "It makes it all worthwhile". Below are just a few of the ways people described WELLIES: A place of comfort and safety;...
OPEN AFTERNOON
At WELLIES HQ, Chapel on the Hill, on 19th July 2019 from 1pm to 4pm. All welcome to come and see what we do and the beautiful setting we do it in. Light refreshments and stalls selling WELLIES' wares available
Help us Build a Therapeutic Garden
We have just launched a CrowdFunder campaign to improve the outdoor space at WELLIES and need your help! The Project plan is to approach a landscape/garden designer and task them with creating a tranquil yet useable area that will be suitable for practical activities...
Calke Abbey Visit
In March, WELLIES groups visited Calke Abbey for lambing and to visit the walled garden.
Helping Sudbury Hall to decorate for Christmas December 2018
One of the highlights of our annual calendar is being involved with the mammoth task of decoration Sudbury Hall for Christmas. We are so proud of our amazing volunteers & here are some images of what we achieved together...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the WELLIES team! There will be no formal classes until the New Year. Next terms dates to follow.
Can you help? We need an engine hoist…
Back in March, the WELLIES group were gifted an old vintage tractor to refurbish, now to keep the refurbishment for this vintage vehicle going the group needs an engine hoist. If there were anyone with an engine hoist they no longer need and would be able to...
New Tractor Project
After the initial plea for help was printed in the Farmers Weekly Magazine, farmer Howard Hughes from the Brecon Beacons in Wales contacted Nick and Julie. He had a 1960 Ford Dexta tractor complete with loader, bucket and muck fork which had been sitting in the barn...
Old Tractor Needed!
WELLIES are looking for an old vintage tractor to refurbish as a project and are reaching out to local people to donate an unwanted machine. The tractor project is aimed at attracting hard to reach, socially isolated people in rural areas who don’t usually engage in...