An opportunity to channel your interior Bear Grylls with actions like breadmaking over an open fireplace is a part of a Wellbeing Week designed to assist folks within the Dee Valley relax after the trials and tribulations of the pandemic.
The free six-day occasion options every little thing from bushcraft to knitting with periods to spice up psychological wellbeing in addition to countryside expertise, cookery and crafts and is being staged in Corwen and Llangollen from Monday, February 28.
The packed programme has been put collectively by South Denbighshire Group Partnership (SDCP) and might be primarily based at venues in Corwen and Llangollen.
Alongside Knit and Knatter, pampering, cooking demonstrations there might be Nature for Well being actions, Emotional Resilience teaching, train periods and bread-making, which takes place on the Pengwern Centre in Llangollen.
However that is breadmaking with a distinction and comes courtesy of out of doors professional Jamie Corry, who runs the Wild Bushcraft Firm, a glamping and out of doors actions centre at The Forge, close to Corwen, within the shadow of Moel Fodig, a 3,500-year-old hillfort.
He stated: “It’s not like common breadmaking – that is bannock bread, unleavened dough twisted round a stick and cooked over an open fireplace.
“The air within the bread once you knead it makes it increase when it’s cooked – it’s scrumptious and really simple however first it’s a must to make your fireplace with sparks from a flint and the bark from silver birch which is stuffed with risky oils and shortly catches mild.”
The breadmaking might be on the Pengwern Centre in Llangollen Centre and Scot Jamie Corry can also be in control of the periods on countryside expertise and axe-throwing however there are additionally much less bodily actions on provide.
SDCP Group Well being and Wellbeing Officer Jess Horner stated: “Now we have put this various programme collectively to supply alternatives to strive new issues all of which goal to enhance wellbeing.
“We wish to trial quite a few actions and get suggestions on how profitable and worthwhile they’re with a view to providing them in future.
“Many individuals have discovered life very tough within the pandemic and this is a chance for the group to return collectively as a part of our Nationwide Lottery group fund funded ‘ Your home or Ours‘ and Betsi Cadwaladar Well being Board funded ‘ICAN’ tasks to assist enhance folks’s wellbeing”
The wellbeing week has secured match funding from Denbighshire Voluntary Companies Council (DVSC) as a part of their ‘Winter of wellbeing’ initiative and on the primary day of the wellbeing week SDCP might be internet hosting a drop-in monetary wellbeing occasion at Canolfan Ni Corwen in partnership with Denbighshire Voluntary Companies Council, Residents Recommendation Denbighshire and lots of different organisations.