Feel Good Festival brings health & happiness to Camberwell
Join our free health & wellbeing events on Camberwell Green Sat 6 July and Ruskin Park Sat 13 July, 11am-3pm.
FREE health, wellbeing and creative activities: Body & mind • Creative arts & crafts • Food & live music.
Join in free fitness, yoga, kids’ active fun, mindful arts & crafts, and much more! Get NHS health checks & advice. Enjoy free food, local choirs and music. All free for all the community.
The Camberwell Feel Good Festival returns for Summer 2024 with two Saturday festival events, packed full of fun and engaging health and wellbeing activities, free food and music, and vital support services for all ages.
After the fantastic success of last year’s Feel Good Festival, which attracted more than 1000 visitors, SE5 Forum invites everyone to this summer’s festival of wellness, community connection and joy.
The festival brings together local charities and organisations, arts and health professionals, food banks and pantries, and volunteers, to support the health and wellbeing of the local community and create a free, uplifting event.
Event Highlights:
- Yoga, tai chi and physical exercise for all ages
- Mindful arts and crafts stalls
- Children’s active fun and games
- Free lunch and pantry from local food charities
- Children’s no-cook food workshop
- Live music and choirs
- Health support services stands
- Gardening & food growing workshops
- NHS physical and mental health advice and support
The Feel Good Festival is free and open to everyone in the community – an opportunity to relax, rejuvenate and connect with neighbours.
Follow the Feel Good Festival on Facebook, X and Instagram @se5forum. For further info, email: admin@se5forum.org.uk
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FEEL GOOD FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:
CAMBERWELL GREEN 6 JULY 11am – 3pm
Get fit & have fun:
Amuru – penalty shoot out, archery, Zorbs, Jenga and more active fun for kids
Southwark Black Parents Forum and The Winners Fitness Gym bring active fitness fun to the green, from punchball to skipping and circuits
Zen Yoga/Zenways – Join a range of yoga and mindful taster sessions in the Zen Yoga marquee
Get healthy:
Spring Community Hub – Local food charity Spring Community Hub will cook up a healthy West African feast for lunch
SE5 Forum stall and no-cook children’s nutritious food workshop – make tasty snacks with the kids and find out more about SE5 Forum activities
Partnership Southwark’s Wellbeing Van – Get essential mental and physical health support and advice from the NHS, blood pressure and weight checks, advice on local cancer screening, local services, vaccinations and a chance to win gift card prizes.
Osteopathy on the Green – get free physical support and advice from this local business, with a raffle for massage and therapy vouchers
Get mental health advice and stop smoking support from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as well as learn about volunteering for mental health. The Mental Health Carers’ & Unpaid Carers’ Group supports families and carers of those going through long term mental or physical illness.
Mindful arts and crafts:
Make dreamcatchers with local volunteer and occupational therapist Holly, or embroidery patterns with mental health specialist and designer Hannah, or join in an art workshop with Bethlem Gallery artist Karta Kaur. Let kids explore their feelings with the unique My Emotions Activity book.
The Camberwell Society – magic tricks and arty fun with local volunteers.
Salvation Army: face painting, nature theme crafts and play for young kids
Relax with Music:
11.30: Scottish Session – Celtic live folk band
12.30: Vagabond music: Malick Kouyate – uplifting sounds from local musicians
2pm: Welcome Singers choir from Southwark Pensioners Centre with community sing-a-long at 2.45
We are happy to be partnering with the Camberwell Green Market and collaborating with Black Stock Media, who will be following the festival with their Let’s Get Together and Feel Alright: African Heritage festival offering Zumba, drumming, music, food, heritage craft stalls, bouncy castle and fun for the kids until 6.30pm.
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RUSKIN PARK 13 JULY 11am – 3pm
Lambeth Together’s Health and Wellbeing Bus – vital NHS health support and advice from blood pressure and cholesterol checks to accessing welfare.
Friends of Ruskin Park and Urban Canopy – community gardening and food growing workshops
Healthy Living Platform local pantry will be serving up delicious and nutritious plant-based snacks
Age UK Lambeth – advice and support for elders
Active Lambeth – get fit and active with taster sessions from Lambeth Council’s leisure centres, and an exclusive offer of no joining fee for any new membership.
B-Uzuri – join in fitness sessions and find out about a personal training fitness programme for the black community
Beautiful voices and songs from local groups: Camberwell Community Choir, Camberwell Recorders Group and the Cambria Choir
Happy Drums: get happy drumming in these fun, inclusive sessions with the unstoppable super-drummer Tony!
Mental Wealth London – a space for mindful painting for anyone in the community that would like to experience the therapeutic effects of art.
Bizzy Izzy Fitness – get fit and moving to music with these popular local sessions!
Wu’s Academy Brixton – Breathing and stretching exercises and an introduction to Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan, including exercises for balance, posture and looseness of limbs.
Key partners in the Feel Good Festival are Spring Community Hub, Healthy Living Platform, Partnership Southwark, Lambeth Together’s Health & Wellbeing Bus, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Gallery, Black Stock Media, Amuru, Southwark Black Parents Forum, Friends of Ruskin Park.
The Feel Good Festival festival is supported by:
Southwark Council’s Neighbourhoods Fund
Changing Lives, Lambeth Council’s Social Value Fund
Thanks to Good Gym Southwark & Lambeth for their essential support setting up and taking down.
Thanks to Pete Lewis, Mr Pete Lewis Studio: mrpetelewis.com for his fab publicity designs.
Thanks to photographer Julia Hawkins and volunteer photographers on the day.
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Mulberry Community picnic: Sat 27th July, Myatt’s Fields Park
Our two festival events are followed by a Mulberry Community Picnic in Myatt’s Fields Park on 27 July to celebrate the summer mulberry trees in SE5. Bring a picnic and enjoy free music from Jazzlive at the Crypt, a special mulberry recipe from Spring Community Hub food charity and kids’ activities from Mulberry Outdoor Preschool.
Beth Angharad & musicians, Jazzlive at the Crypt
Mulberry picnic sponsors:
