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In person events
Find an event near you to meet like-minded individuals.
Well-City Salisbury, Referrers Information Session - 19th March, 10am - 12.30pm (GMT) - Salisbury Playhouse, Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, SP2 7RA
Join Wessex Archaeology on Social Prescribing Day for a morning of connection and creativity! Learn about Well-City Salisbury, explore project updates, upcoming courses, and experience the wellbeing benefits of a hands-on creative activity. Sign up here.
Fish and Chat - 19th March, 10am - 2pm (GMT) - Mousehole Fishery, Maidstone Road, Nettlestead, Kent
Join Cast a Thought CIC and spend some time experiencing the benefits of angling on mental health and wellbeing. With 3 hours of fishing followed by 1 hour enjoying refreshments and having a chat.
Spring Social Prescribing - 19 March, 10am - 11am (GMT) - Bellinge Community Hub Field Mill Sq Northampton NN3 9AQ
An hour's talk and a relaxing demonstration to include a self facial and skin care routine using reasonably priced and ethically sourced products. Booked through Spring Social Prescribing Link Worker.
Spring Social Prescribing - Silent Disco - 19th March, 12pm - 1pm (GMT) - Bellinge Community Hub Field Mill Sq Northampton NN3 9AQ
A fun one-hour session for SPRING clients to increase their wellbeing by exercising and dancing their way through a Wednesday. Booked through Spring Social Prescribing Link Worker.
Vision 4 Youth - 19th March, 10am-12pm (GMT) - Yately Industries community cafe, Yately, reading Road, GU46 7TF
Karla Wilding, our youth social prescriber will be available for a chat and coffee. Feel free to drop in if you feel you as a young person or a parent of a young person would like more information. Book through their website here.
Chorley Council - 19th March, 1pm-3pm (GMT) - Chorley Town Hall, Market Street, Chorley, PR7 1DP
Free event open to the public. Come along and speak to over 40 different services who can provide support to residents of Chorley!
Rooted Community Food CIC - Social Prescribing Open Day with Rooted- 19th March, 10am-1pm (GMT) - Rooted Kitchen Plot, Gorringe Road Allotment Site, Gorringe Road, Eastbourne, BN22 8XL
Join us at our growing session where we will be showcasing some of the types of activities that we offer. This event will provide an opportunity for conversation and feedback about future projects that could be beneficial. Sign up here.
Community First - Hampshire and IoW Social Prescribing Network - 'Networking and Showcase Celebration Event' - 12th March, 9.30am - 2.30am (GMT) - Vineyard Church, Unit A, Bar End Industrial Estate, Bar End Rd, Winchester, SO23 9NR
This annual Social Prescribing Celebratory event, will include updates from Hampshire's VCSE sector, NASP, Hampshire's Inclusion No Wrong Door Service, a Social Prescribing best practice Case Study/video from a local PCN, Workshops, Networking and Market Stalls. Contact Jane: [email protected] - if you are not currently a member of the Network but would like to join/attend (NB places are limited- https://www.cfirst.org.uk/wellbeing/hspn/
Move It or Lose It - 20th March 12pm - 1pm (GMT) - St.Peter's Hall, Eastbourne Grove, SS0 0QF
Improve your flexibility, balance, confidence, strength and mobility with a fun, friendly group of like-minded people. (No getting down on the floor required!). Join the group here
Bailiwick Social Prescribing - Networking Breakfast to celebrate the scheme - 19th March 8.30am - 10am (GMT) - KGV Playing Fields, Guernsey
This networking breakfast is to enable us to share our plans with our community partners and to enable them to share information with the Link Workers. Eventbrite event sent out to those who are invited locally.
Thrive- North East Lincolnshire - Wellbeing day - 19th March 10am - 2pm (GMT) - Centre4, Grimsby, Dn311HE
Awareness of social prescribing in the community with some wellbeing activities available. See more here
South Uttlesford PCN & Uttlesford Community Action Network - Coffee Morning - 19th March 9am - 10am (GMT) - Takeley Old School Community Hub, Dunmow Road, Takeley, cm22 6sb
Coffee morning to meet their local social prescribers. See more on Instagram @bowensocial
Vermut App - Enric Duran - 19th March 7pm - 9pm - Bowling Pedralbes - Av. Dr. Marañón, 11, 08028 Barcelona, España
Bowling club in Barcelona - learn more and join here
Vermut App - Dinner with Friends - 19th March 8pm - 10pm - P.º dePalacio de Linares - Recoletos, 2, Salamanca, 28001 Madrid, Spain
Let's go to a wonderful place, a unique space in the heart of Madrid, surrounded by greenery. We will immerse ourselves in this marvelous setting, where we can enjoy a cuisine featuring hints of Ibero-American flavors, inspired by the location itself—the beautiful Palacio de Linares. Learn more and join here.
Breckland Council - Chatty Chairs Events - 19th March 9.30am - 4pm (GMT) Dereham Aid Centre, Well-come Mental health Group, Dereham and Dereham Library
We’re bringing Social Prescribing to life with our Chatty Chairs – a fun and gentle way to spark conversations about wellbeing, community support, and connection. These iconic chairs have toured Norfolk, and now they’re back to help us celebrate #SocialPrescribingDay, join us for a friendly chat, healthy snacks, and useful info on how social prescribing can support you and your community.
Newcastle GP Services - The North East's biggest social prescribing team out and about in Newcastle on Social Prescribing Day! 19th March 9am - 1pm across Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle GP Services (NGPS) have the largest social prescribing team in the Northeast, and to celebrate Social Prescribing Day will be visiting 17 different voluntary sector, community and charity organisations across the city, to hear more about the work that these vital organisations do to help our communities, and to explain more about social prescribing.
British Sauna Society - Sauna You Free - 19th March 9am - 9pm across various locations - participating saunas can be found on our website here.
We are delighted to announce that we’re co-hosting a little initiative with Sauna Our Souls, to invite all NHS workers and link workers for a free sauna for Social Prescribing Day on March 19th, (or before April 19th). This is a tiny token of gratitude from us as a community for the extraordinary care you have consistently provided throughout the pandemic and beyond. Please can we prescribe you a sauna?
Centre4 'Social Prescribing Day' - 19th March, 10am - 2pm (GMT) - 17A Wootton Road, Grimsby, DN33 1HE
A drop-in event by Centre4, showcasing North East Lincolnshire's social prescribing, giving people the chance to learn about the benefits while seeing how it's achieved.
Community Concert - 20th March, 12.30pm - 1.30pm (GMT) - St Philip's Church, Earls Court Road, London W8 6QH
Hosted by Opera Holland Park, this free relaxed, dementia friendly concert is for everyone to experience an hour of joy through music, book here.
Spring Social Prescribing (Age UK Northamptonshire) - 19th March, 9am - 4.30pm (GMT) - Corby Library, Corby Cube, Parkland Gateway, George Street, Corby NN17 1QG
Our Corby Social Prescribing Link Workers will be at the Library from 9-11 and 2-4:30pm, offering the opportunity to drop-in for a cuppa and chat, to find out more about social prescribing and how it can support your wellbeing. Find out more
Spring Social Prescribing (Age UK Northamptonshire) - 19th March, 10am - 1pm (GMT) - Desborough Library, High Street, Desborough, Kettering, NN14 2QS
Our Kettering Social Prescribing Link Workers will be at the Desborough Library from 10am to 1pm, offering the opportunity to drop-in for a cuppa and chat, to find out more about social prescribing and how it can support your wellbeing. Find out more
Athena Nature Training - 19th March 10am - 12pm (GMT) - Straw's Bridge, High Lane, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, DE7 5FG
An amble through the countryside taking in nature as a way to combat loneliness and low confidence. Followed by coffee and cake. Buy tickets for a donation here
Nova Wakefield District and Live Well Wakefield - Social Prescribing Day Networking Celebration - 19th March 9.30am - 12.30pm (GMT) - The Glasshoughton Centre, Leeds Road, Castleford, WF10 4PF
Celebrate Social Prescribing Day with us at this networking event, designed to strengthen your connections to other VCSE organisations and local GP practices in Wakefield District. Register for free here
Parkrun - 22nd March 9.30am - 10.30am (GMT) - Nationwide in over 100 locations. Please visit our website to find your nearest event.
Online events
Free online sessions to help you learn something new or boost your wellbeing.
Social Prescribing Day All-Hands (USA) - 19th March, 5pm - 6pm (ET)
Are you looking to help spread social prescribing in YOUR community? Join a virtual all-hands-on-deck meeting where you'll each take one concrete action to help integrate social prescribing in your healthcare systems, your community institutions, and your discussions on about health and wellness. Join The Connection Cure & Social Prescribing USA, sign up here.
SoulSing / Yogacize (USA) - 19th March, 11am - 12am (ET)
“Soul Sing” is a Jewish community singing circle; “Yogacize” is seated/standing mindfullness yoga for adults. Broadcastedfrom Clearwater, FL
Window Wonderland - Free downloadable stencil for mindful papercutting - 10th March 9am - 11pm (GMT)
We're shining a light on mindful crafts with our illuminating lighthouse stencil. To celebrate Social Prescribing Day on March 19, we're giving this downloadable stencil for FREE to enjoy some meditative paper cutting. Head to our online Art Shop and use the code: Lighthouse2025
University of Edinburgh - Library and University Collections -Library in Health - 18th March 12pm - 12.40pm (GMT)
Pop online and discover what health and wellbeing resources and support programmes are available, through the University of Edinburgh Library and University Collections, to both the campus and the wider local community. You will hear about Prescribe Culture, the Library Service’s Wellbeing Collection and Leisure Reading Library and the Makerspace. Importantly you will hear from some of our Prescribe Culture referral partners in the Wellbeing Team and the Richard Verney Health Centre, as well as hearing how joining Prescribe Culture has impacted the individual members. Find out more and sign up here
University of Edinburgh - Library and University Collections -Rooting for Green Prescribing on Campus - 17th March 12pm - 12.45pm (GMT)
Julze Alejandre is a doctoral researcher and is currently developing Scotland’s first Blue-Green Prescribing Programme for Primary Mental Healthcare using blue social prescribing and eco-directed prescribing of antidepressants. Have a virtual lunch with Julze to hear about his work and how Social PrescribED is working with partners to expand and enhance the programmes available to campus and local communities. Find out more and sign up here
University of Edinburgh - Library and University Collections -Canadian Students and Social Prescribing - 19th March 1pm - 1.45pm (GMT)
Ellen McGarity-Shipley is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Join Ellen as she's takes us through her involvement in the Canadian social prescribing movement including how she became passionate about it, how she co-founded a regional social prescribing initiative in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, her experiences co-leading the Canadian Social Prescribing Student Collective, and her hopes for the future of social prescribing. Sign up here
University of Edinburgh - Library and University Collections -Step Back and Reflect - 14th March 9am - 10am (GMT)
In this Prescribe Culture taster session Ruthanne will encourage and inspire you to step back from your day, today. Prepare to try a little reflective time-travel, through the University Heritage Collections, and benefit from a ‘staycation’ from the Highlands to the Scottish Borders, circa 1800. Sign up here
Vermut App - Vermut usage of the app updates - 18 March 6pm - 7pm (GMT)
We created this activity for all Vermuteros who want to stay up to date with the latest features, news, and launches we’ve introduced with Vermut. Sign up here.
Entrust Outdoors - Social Media Campaign - 19th March 9am - 4pm (GMT)
🌟 Shout Out to Our Amazing NCS Alumni and Wonderful Teachers and Schools! 🌟
Hey NCS Alumni and Educators! We want to hear from YOU! 🎉 Next week is Social Prescribing Day, and we want to highlight the incredible benefits of outdoor education in promoting health and well-being. See more here.
