The Well Being Cafe

The Well-being Café opened in August 2022 as a community hub focused on mental health and wellbeing in Okehampton. It provides a safe, welcoming space where people can drop in for a chat, access hot meals through soup vouchers and pay-it-forward schemes, and connect with others facing similar challenges. The café supports people struggling with mental health, isolation, loneliness, food poverty and homelessness.

Regular peer support groups include a popular knit and natter session on Tuesdays and Teen's Space for ages 11-17. The café also runs courses like their Anxiety Management and 4 Week Happiness programmes, and works closely with local GPs, social prescribers and community organisations. A key aim is making Okehampton and surrounding villages a suicide safer community.