Wallingford Wellbeing Festival
Who's Involved
Although the Wallingford Wellbeing Festival was conceptualised by local resident Michelle Hammond, it is proudly collaborative at heart.
The festival brings together the best of our local community, alongside regional and national organisations whose work aligns deeply with our values. It is shaped by shared ideas, generosity of spirit and a belief that wellbeing is something we build together.
Across the weekend, you’ll meet practitioners, artists, facilitators, charities, educators, community leaders and organisations who care not just about what they do, but how they do it.
Spotlight Collaborators
GreenArt
GreenArt is curating the Nature & Environment pillar, bringing a thoughtful, grounded approach to how nature supports both human and planetary wellbeing.
Their work starts from a simple but powerful idea: when gardens and green spaces thrive, people thrive too. Drawing on nature, science and lived experience, GreenArt explores how time outdoors, seasonal rhythms, soil, plants and wildlife can help calm the nervous system, lift mood and restore a sense of steadiness, often through small, everyday moments rather than grand gestures.
At the festival, GreenArt’s spaces will invite people to slow down, notice and reconnect with nature in practical, accessible ways. Some experiences will be creative and playful, others calm and reflective, but all are designed to help people feel more grounded, more connected and more at home in the natural world.
Rooted in Wallingford and working closely with the local community, GreenArt’s contribution reflects a belief that caring for our environment is not separate from caring for ourselves, it’s part of the same story.
Camerados
Camerados supports the Connection & Community pillar, bringing their belief in everyday human connection into the heart of the Wallingford Wellbeing Festival.
As a social movement, Camerados exists to make being a bit more human feel normal again. Their work centres on the idea that the answer to many of our challenges is each other, not through fixing, advising or problem-solving, but through presence, conversation and shared space.
At the festival, Camerados will help create a Public Living Room, a welcoming, no-agenda place where people can sit down with a cuppa, have a chat, and feel part of something. These are spaces designed for real life: chatting to someone new, sitting quietly with a neighbour, or simply being around other people without pressure or expectation.
Their presence reflects a shared belief at the heart of the festival: that wellbeing is not only about what we do individually, but about how we show up for one another. Sometimes, the most powerful thing we can offer is time, attention and the simple act of listening.
British Sauna Society
Champions of sauna culture, the British Sauna Society leads the festival’s Thermal Zone, bringing a grounded, human approach to warmth, health and connection into the heart of the Wallingford Wellbeing Festival.
Rooted in long-standing global traditions and supported by modern research, sauna culture supports physical health and recovery, nervous system regulation and mental wellbeing. Just as importantly, it creates shared spaces for conversation, connection and time together.
At the festival, sauna is experienced as something communal rather than solitary. The Thermal Zone invites people to slow down, warm up and reconnect, with their bodies and with one another. It’s a place to pause, chat quietly, reflect or simply sit together in comfort.
Their contribution reflects a shared belief at the heart of the festival: that wellbeing doesn’t need to be complicated or exclusive. When practised together, something as simple as warmth can support health, restore balance and strengthen connection.
GreenArt
GreenArt is curating the Nature & Environment pillar, bringing a thoughtful, grounded approach to how nature supports both human and planetary wellbeing.
Their work starts from a simple but powerful idea: when gardens and green spaces thrive, people thrive too. Drawing on nature, science and lived experience, GreenArt explores how time outdoors, seasonal rhythms, soil, plants and wildlife can help calm the nervous system, lift mood and restore a sense of steadiness, often through small, everyday moments rather than grand gestures.
At the festival, GreenArt’s spaces will invite people to slow down, notice and reconnect with nature in practical, accessible ways. Some experiences will be creative and playful, others calm and reflective, but all are designed to help people feel more grounded, more connected and more at home in the natural world.
Rooted in Wallingford and working closely with the local community, GreenArt’s contribution reflects a belief that caring for our environment is not separate from caring for ourselves, it’s part of the same story.
Camerados
Camerados supports the Connection & Community pillar, bringing their belief in everyday human connection into the heart of the Wallingford Wellbeing Festival.
As a social movement, Camerados exists to make being a bit more human feel normal again. Their work centres on the idea that the answer to many of our challenges is each other, not through fixing, advising or problem-solving, but through presence, conversation and shared space.
At the festival, Camerados will help create a Public Living Room, a welcoming, no-agenda place where people can sit down with a cuppa, have a chat, and feel part of something. These are spaces designed for real life: chatting to someone new, sitting quietly with a neighbour, or simply being around other people without pressure or expectation.
Their presence reflects a shared belief at the heart of the festival: that wellbeing is not only about what we do individually, but about how we show up for one another. Sometimes, the most powerful thing we can offer is time, attention and the simple act of listening.
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