Community Wellbeing Service
Maddison Stewart DipHePSYCH BHons
A Listening Ear
A listening service: 30 minutes just for you. Additional Support if you need it.
Our Listening Ear & Support Service at Bearwood Community Hub is available to all.
This is a confidential space to offload and recharge in a non-judgemental environment.
Maddison is a counsellor, a trained life coach, and a woman of action with lots of life experience that she’s keen to share.
Here, we believe that talking about your emotions and mental health can help release pent-up stresses and feelings, leaving you with a more positive sense of wellbeing. If we can help in practical ways too, perhaps through coaching, or signposting to other agencies, free services or opportunities, we will.
No problem is too small, whether you are feeling sad, confused, worried, stuck in a rut or even if there are no problems at all and would just would like to talk. Our trained listener, Maddison, is available to listen every week during term time, Tuesday to Friday. Maddison works from a lovely therapy room in our coworking space at 28a Abbey Road.
Email, text or call Maddison at maddison.lifecoach@gmail.com or 07719732352
We look forward to listening and we’re grateful to SCVO and The National Lottery Community Fund for enabling us to carry out this work.
In 2025, we were sadly unsuccessful in our attempts to secure more funding for the community wellbeing service. However, Maddison continues to provide community wellbeing services and projects through her own Community Interest Company, La Luz Coaching and Wellbeing Services.
A Listening Ear was kindly supported by SCVO's Vision 2030 fund and later by Sandwell Council's Better Mental Health Strategy: Healthy Sandwell.
Dance for Wellbeing
"Need to get moving? Fancy having a laugh and making new friends?
Join us for a free, weekly aerobic style dance class - suitable for beginners!"
Our Wellbeing Practitioner, Maddison Stewart, ran free weekly aerobic-style dance classes out of Bearwood Yoga's studio.
The benefits of dance for wellbeing are many and may include:
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Releasing stress
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Releasing the feel-good hormone serotonin
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Reducing anxiety and low mood
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Promoting better brain health
Please note this activity is no longer running.
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Happiness and Wellness
Between 2023 & 2024 Bearwood Community Hub were funded to run activities and services which support the mental health and wellbeing of people from the Black, Black British and African Caribbean community as part of the development of the Better Mental Health Strategy in Sandwell.
Mental Health Mondays 16+
As part of the Happiness and Wellness Collection, Mental Health Mondays provided free fitness sessions and group seminars at Sandwell Gym in West Bromwich.
Please note that this event is no longer running.
Coffee 'n' Canvas
Coffee 'n' Canvas brings people together for a relaxing evening of painting together. No experience needed, learn about the therapeutic benefits of painting and colour.
Get creative and reduce your stress with this fun, artistic activity at local coffee hub Tamu!
£5 cake and coffee offer from the fabulous Tamu!
This event is no longer run as part of Bearwood Community Hub's Wellbeing Service, but is continued by Maddison Stewart through her own CIC La Luz Coaching and Wellbeing Services.
Visionary Vibes
Visionary Vibes ran twice, once in November 2024 and again in January 2025. This event focused on bringing together people for a day of wellbeing focused activities, community-building, mental health speakers and opportunities for networking.
"Connect with like-minded individuals and immerse yourself in a unique atmosphere. Get ready to be inspired by visionary speakers and engage in thought-provoking discussions."
