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Mindful photography workshops

5 January 2026 by Tanya Baddeley

Photographer with camera looking at sunset over sea

Focus - Breathe - Frame. Mindful photography to help your wellbeing.

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Our series of mindful photography workshops will start on 2nd February, and will run for 5 weeks, from 10am to 12.30pm, meeting each week in the Coates Centre at Oakhaven.

Discover how photography can calm the mind, spark creativity, and support your wellbeing. This workshop blends mindful practice with the Five Pillars of Wellbeing, to help you slow down and see the world differently.

  • By connecting - build deeper relationships with people and place through shared creative moments
  • By being active - move, explore, and engage your body whilst capturing meaningful images
  • By taking notice - pause, observe, and appreciate the small details that often go unseen in the moment
  • By keeping learning - try new techniques, experiment with perspective, and grow your creative skills
  • By giving - share your images to inspire, uplift, or bring joy to others

Join us to reconnect with yourself, your surroundings and your creativity - one mindful photo at a time.

Please note: this is not a technical photography workshop, rather the device is an extension of your wellbeing resource.

When done thoughtfully, photography can be an effective way of improving mood and appreciation of everyday life.

This course is now full!

To go on the waiting list for our next course, please contact Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

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Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

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Weekly crafting session to help your wellbeing

5 January 2026 by Tanya Baddeley

A selection of crafts done at Oakhaven Wellbeing

Join our crafting session to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Our weekly crafting session offers more than creativity; it provides a gentle, supportive space where people can meet together. Through meeting, chatting, and connecting, participants find comfort, self-expression, and shared understanding.

Join Karen to have a go at an array of different crafts in the Art Room at Oakhaven. Crafting is personal and a wonderful time to express your individual style. It’s great for mindfulness and wellbeing. Karen has crafted for many years, her passion is to create individual pieces of craftwork - she will guide and support your creativity!

Current sessions run from Monday 5th January, from 1.30pm until 3.30pm in the Oakhaven Art Room (Day Hospice entrance).

Suggested donation £5. Spaces limited, booking essential. Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

Patient being cared for at home by a nurse

Help hospice care live on

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care for all, for now, forever.

Find out more
Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

Book your tickets now!

Live well with Oakhaven Wellbeing - helping to make every moment matter!

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Live well – join our art session to help your wellbeing

5 January 2026 by Tanya Baddeley

Oakhaven art room

Join our art class to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Our weekly art group offers more than creativity; it provides a gentle, supportive space where people can meet together. Through meeting, chatting, and connecting, participants find comfort, self-expression, and shared understanding. Art can help people navigate the challenges of illness and loss by creating moments of calm, sparking conversation, and building connections that serve as a reminder that none of us are alone on this journey, all with a paintbrush in hand.

Current sessions run from Monday 5th January, from 10am until midday in the Oakhaven Art Room (Day Hospice entrance).

Suggested donation £5. Spaces limited, booking essential.

Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

Patient being cared for at home by a nurse

Help hospice care live on

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care for all, for now, forever.

Find out more
Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

Book your tickets now!

Live well with Oakhaven Wellbeing - helping to make every moment matter!

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Chair yoga at the Coates Centre

5 January 2026 by Tanya Baddeley

Chair yoga

A new chair yoga class at the Coates Centre

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Enjoy gentle seated movement, visualisation and breathing with yoga teacher Diana. Chair yoga helps improve mobility and wellbeing. We recommend that you wear comfortable clothing.

Our next course starts on Wednesday 14th January and costs £5 per session. The sessions take place from 2pm to 3pm in the Coates Centre.

14th January
11th February
11th March
8th April

Book today!

Spaces limited and booking is essential to attend the classes. Please use the form below to book your place.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

Patient being cared for at home by a nurse

Help hospice care live on

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care for all, for now, forever.

Find out more
Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

Book your tickets now!

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Boost your wellbeing with Sing for Joy!

5 January 2026 by Tanya Baddeley

Sing for Joy at the Coates Centre

Sing for Joy at the Coates Centre to boost your wellbeing!

Are you navigating a life-limiting illness, caring for someone or living with a loss or bereavement?

Unlock your inner joy by coming along to this friendly singing group, led by Leigh - no prior experience required! Learn ways to warm up and use your voice, meet new people and discover some of the great benefits of singing together.

'Sing for Joy' takes place on Mondays at the Coates Centre, from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

The cost is £5 per session. Spaces limited, booking essential. Please book your space today using the form below.

Alternatively, please telephone Lee Rand on 01590 613025 or email wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk.

Patient being cared for at home by a nurse

Help hospice care live on

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care for all, for now, forever.

Find out more
Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

Book your tickets now!

Live well with Oakhaven Wellbeing - helping to make every moment matter!

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Mindfulness maintenance: fortnightly session at the Coates Centre

5 January 2026 by webadmin

grasses in the Oakhaven Hospice garden

Continue your mindfulness practice fortnightly at the Coates Centre

If you are affected by a life-limiting illness, are a carer or are living with a loss or bereavement, we are here to support you.

This session is for experienced meditators who are familiar with a regular sitting practice and that have completed Oakhaven's 6-week Introduction to Mindfulness course. Our fortnightly session, facilitated by our trained volunteer Gillian, is aimed at continuing your mindfulness practice.

The benefits of mindfulness

This skill of developing moment to moment awareness brings benefits to both our physical and mental wellbeing. Mindfulness training has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety, help better cope with physical and emotional pain, increase cognitive ability, help with memory and improve relationships.

How it works

We can easily be triggered to react to stressful situations in well-worn habitual ways, often our reactions are not helpful in the long run and can lead to further stress.

Through mindfulness practice we will develop greater awareness of thoughts, feelings, and associated bodily-sensations that are normally out of the ordinary field of perception. These can trigger these stressful patterns of thinking and reaction. We learn the skill of not reacting as we usually would and in doing so we break the cycle of triggered reactions.

What you will learn

On the course you will learn a range of formal and informal mindfulness practices which include some meditations, some gentle yoga movement practices and some cognitive exercises. This helps bring greater awareness, concentration and choice to our experience. Being part of a supported learning group is also an important aspect of learning mindfulness.

Together we will be working to change the patterns of mind that have been around for a long time and have become well-worn habits. We will only make progress with this if we put in the time and effort to learn these skills and to practice them on a daily basis. This relies on your willingness to practice regularly at home between class sessions.

The course is held every other Friday from 10am to 12.30pm, at the Coates Centre, Oakhaven Hospice.

Book your space now!

Book your space today by using the form below:

Alternatively, please contact either Lee Rand, Wellbeing Coordinator, or Sally Woods, Complementary Therapy Coordinator, by emailing wellbeing@oakhavenhospice.co.uk or telephone Sally Woods on 01590 638497 or Lee Rand on 01590 613025.

We look forward to warmly welcoming you to Mindfulness Maintenance!

Patient being cared for at home by a nurse

Help hospice care live on

Leave a gift in your will and help protect hospice care for all, for now, forever.

Find out more
Oakhaven Hospice Family Fun Day 2026

Oakhaven Family Fun Day

Everyone is welcome at our 'pirate themed' Family Fun Day on Saturday, 27th June.

Find out more...
New Forest historian Jack Harris

Fundraising Lunch

Book your tickets now for Dining Divas Lunch on Wednesday, 30th September!

Book your tickets now!

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