This learning has been especially helpful in informing our thinking at Castlemilk Well-being Hub CIC around developing a community-led learning model that is flexible, responsive and rooted in local need, while still being robust enough to grow and endure. The exchange created space to explore how Moray Wellbeing Hub successfully blends social enterprise with community empowerment. We learned how wellbeing-focused training can generate income without compromising accessibility or values, and how pricing, partnerships and delivery methods can be adapted to meet different community needs. Through structured conversations, observation and informal knowledge-sharing, we gained valuable insight into how their model is built, funded and delivered in partnership with local organisations. Hearing directly about what has worked well, what has evolved over time, and the challenges they have navigated gave us a realistic and grounded understanding of sustainability in practice

Learning Outcomes

• Understanding sustainable wellbeing learning models: Gain a clear understanding of how Moray Wellbeing Hub has developed and sustained its Wellness College model, including structure, funding approaches, and partnerships, to inform the development of a similar community-led learning model at Castlemilk Well-being Hub CIC.
• Strengthening community-led training and income generation Explore practical ways to create a wellbeing-focused training arm that generates income while remaining accessible and responsive to community needs, drawing on Moray’s experience of blending social enterprise with community empowerment.
• Building collaboration and shared learning networks: Develop stronger links between community wellbeing organisations across Scotland to share best practice, encourage peer learning, and co-produce approaches that enhance resilience, wellbeing, and capacity within local communities.

"The exchange strengthened our understanding of place-based wellbeing. Experiencing Moray through the Mental Wealth Safari highlighted how geography, environment, identity and community history shape mental health and resilience. This has deepened our appreciation of the role of place in wellbeing work and will inform how we design activities that are rooted in the lived experience of our own community. Overall, the learning exchange fully delivered on its intended outcomes, providing practical learning, strengthened partnerships and renewed inspiration. It has left us better equipped, better connected, and energised to apply what we have learned within our own community, with a few new ideas in our backpack and a strong sense that we’re not doing this work alone."