Written by Molly Haywood Newberry, Network Development Manager, Network of Wellbeing On 5th May 2026, I went to the book launch of The Elgar Companion to Creating a Regenerative Economy for Wellbeing – and left feeling something I hadn’t quite
Be a kindness rebel: In this post Ben Thurman, Policy and Development Officer at Carnegie UK Trust, explores kindness as a disruptive and transformative concept. A month ago, at a meeting of our Kindness in North Ayrshire network, an anonymous post-it encouraged
“Values are like fingerprints… you leave them over everything you do” Elvis Presley Values are the things that are important to us. They are our motivators, our drivers, the passion in our hearts and the reason we do the things
We don’t need to own more stuff to make us happy; in fact, research shows that the more materialistic we become, the more miserable we get. Sharing, on the other hand… Sharing can help to meet some of our material
The Network of Wellbeing (NOW) is reviewing its strategy, and we’d love to hear and include your views! For the last three years, we’ve focused on building our network across the UK (and beyond), supporting wellbeing-related activities at the community
Kindness is not just about being nice. It matters, both for the wellbeing of individuals and communities and their empowerment. It also is a key factor in combatting the growing public health issue of loneliness and social isolation. The below
The past year has been a big year for the Network of Wellbeing. We held our first big national event, the Building Wellbeing Together weekend at Hawkwood College; we’ve launched a new website and we’ve just been given Eden Rise
Welcome to our new website! It’s designed to help us build a network of people who care about the wellbeing of people, society and the planet. We’re so excited about it and want to share some of its best features with
In an act of incredible generosity, the Network of Wellbeing has been gifted Eden Rise, a beautiful countryside haven just outside of Totnes, Devon. A beautiful place… Imagine two Victorian barns in the Devon countryside converted to a holiday let
The Network of Wellbeing (NOW) has been running a free ‘Building Wellbeing Together’ webinar series for the past six months. In this webinar we did something a little different. NOW’s Director Roger Higman shares why we see wellbeing as such
The Carnegie UK Trust has announced the participants of our Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project. The Community Planning Partnerships working in the following local authority areas were selected to receive financial and in-kind support from the Trust for the
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