Byres Hub Community Day 2025: Celebrating Connections

Welcome to the Byres Hub Community Day 2025: Celebrating Connections!

Join School of Health and Wellbeing staff, students and Byres Hub community groups between 12noon and 4pm on Saturday 7th June for our third annual community day filled with fun activities, refreshments, and chat. This event is all about bringing our community together, strengthening those bonds that make Byres Hub so special and welcoming new people to the Hub from across Glasgow and beyond.

From upbeat songs to interactive activities and thought-provoking challenges, there's something for everyone to enjoy in our accessible spaces. Come meet new friends, reconnect with old ones, and celebrate the connections that make communities in Glasgow thrive with many fantastic third sector organisations in our 'Connections Marketplace'.

Mark your calendars and get ready for a day of laughter and learning. Let's make connections together at the Byres Hub Community Day 2025!

This is a drop-in event but please register for free tickets to help with planning.

Byres Hub is a fully accessible and inclusive space.

Byres Hub Subway escape room style challenge: Collect your ticket to ride the Byres Hub Subway at reception and join the Inner Circle between12noon – 1.30pm or between 2pm – 3.30pm. Here you will have to race against the clock to complete puzzles, clues and games set by School of Health and Wellbeing research groups and Byres Hub community groups and community partners including:

· Sight Scotland - decipher the beautiful tactile code of Braille enabling blind and visually impaired people to read and write independently.

· Visit our BSL challenge to unravel the mystery by communicating in Sign Language.

· Jobs and Business Glasgow – overcome the barriers to finding meaningful work opportunities.

· The Scottish Ambulance Service - problem solve our Young Minds Save Lives challenges in order to escape without having to call an emergency!

· Social and Public Health Sciences Unit ‘Neighbourhood Networks’ - Explore the theme of 30-minute neighbourhoods and take part in a Lego-building challenge to design healthier, more connected neighbourhoods. .

· Social and Public Health Sciences Unit ‘Eyes Wide Open’ – look at sleep from an adolescent perspective and find strategies for healthy sleep for people of all ages.

· General Practice and Primary Care – Can you break into General Practice?

Your task is to help patients get to their appointment with their GP on time. It might sound simple, but there will be a number of expected (and unexpected) hoops to jump through and problems to overcome to get through the door

- Health Economics and Health Assessment Technologies – You are the new Health Secretary of Scotland and your task is to implement policies to lower people’s risk of heart disease.

· Healthy Working Lives Group - The Great Remote Working Heist! Find the mythical “Flexi Code” that restores your work-life balance.

In the Byres Hub Subway Outer Circle, from 12noon - 4pm, we have our ‘Connections Marketplace’ full of stalls with third sector organisations supporting Health and Wellbeing in Glasgow including:

• Digital Connections: Plugged-In computer recycling project with North West Glasgow Voluntary Sector Network. Bring along laptops to donate or find out how you can refer someone to the service or access the service yourself to receive free, refurbished computer equipment.

• Community Connections with Patrick Housing Association celebrating 50 years of connections. Find out more about their upcoming celebrations like the Big Picnic at Mansfield Park event.

· Connecting to yourself with COPE Scotland: explore what gives us a sense of life satisfaction and collect a ‘life purpose’ gift bag, which will contain a range of items to help promote a sense of wellbeing.

· Data Connections - Visit Research Data UK’s ‘Dude, Where’s My (Health) Data?stand.

• Neuro Connections: Join Topple The King for a larger-than-life brain work out on their giant chessboard

• Mental Health Connections: Let’s Talk with SAMH – explore a range of materials, prompts and games themed around the 5 Ways to Wellbeing to initiate positive conversations about mental health and raise awareness of local support services.

• Support Connections –During National Dementia Week come and meet Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Advisor who will be happy to answer your questions about dementia and tell you about the groups and activities that they run for families affected by dementia in Glasgow such as Dementia Cafes.

• Non-Verbal Connections – Lip Reading is a skill to help with communication for those with a hearing loss. Learn more about the skill with teacher Jill Bradshaw, including the lip patters of words and local classes which lessen isolation and help with coping strategies.

• Cultural Connections with Scottish Intercultural Association
• Health and Wellbeing Connections – Explore Scotland's Third Sector via ALISS, The Health and Social Care Alliance’s Database for activities promoting connections. Whether you’re looking for health and wellbeing services, community groups, or support for everyday needs, ALISS makes it easy to find what’s available near you. See what's on where you live or add details to the database. And find out more about the Digital Citizens Panel. Let’s celebrate the connections that make our communities stronger and more supportive.

• Connecting through arts and crafts join our resident knitters and quilters from U3A and members of Queers Make Glasgow for some personalised bunting making to hang in the Hub.

Entertainment

• Capoeira 4 Scotland martial arts at 1.30pm "Experience the unique Afro-Brazilian art of Capoeira in an action-packed demonstration, combining elements of martial arts, dance, acrobatics with traditional folk music in a dynamic performance!"
• Enjoy and join in with uplifting songs from Vocal Dynamics Community Choir at 2pm

Exhibitions

- View beautiful artwork as part of The 2025 Refugee Festival.

- View the Creative Skills for Neurodivergent Young People exhibition from DIFFERabled Scotland which showcases the work of young people aged between 10 – 16 who attended a course on creative skills for learning in Byres Hub. The course comprises a series of short vidoes developed by Rossie Stone at Dekko Comics which encourage young people to use their neurodivergent strengths to explore creative ways to learn.

Tours of Clarice Pears building at 12.30pm; 1.30pm; 2.30pm; 3.30pm

Feedback from last year's event:

”Very well organised, thought provoking and fun to to do.”

“An incredible event. Loved every bit of it.”

Thank you The School of Health and Wellbeing for supporting our community day and to Every Stage Ltd and and The Ideas Club for your support.

Thank you to all the third sector and voluntary partners and research teams who will be there on the day. We look forward to celebrating connections together.

Also check out other Health & Wellness events in Glasgow, Workshops in Glasgow, Exhibitions in Glasgow.