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Byres Hub Community Day 2025 – Celebrating Connections

Saturday 7 June, 2025 12 noon – 4 p.m.

Byres Community Hub, Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow 90 Byres Road Glasgow G12 8TB

Join School of Health and Wellbeing staff, students and Byres Hub community groups for their third annual community day filled with fun activities, refreshments, and chat during Glasgow Science Festival. This event is all about bringing the community together, strengthening those bonds that make Byres Hub so special and welcoming new people to the Hub from across Glasgow and beyond. Part of WestFest 2025.

From upbeat songs to interactive activities and thought-provoking challenges, there’s something for everyone to enjoy in their 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 the ‘Connections Marketplace’.

Mark your calendars and get ready for a day of laughter and learning and 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. Book Online

Byres Hub is a fully accessible and inclusive space.

Programme for the Day:

ESCAPE ROOM STYLE CHALLENGE

Byres Hub Subway escape room style challenge: Collect your ticket to ride the Byres Hub Subway at reception and drop in to join the Inner Circle anytime between12.30pm 2pm or between 2.30pm – 4pm. 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 from our British Sign Language Cafe team.
• Jobs and Business Glasgow – overcome the barriers to finding meaningful work opportunities
• 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: Creating your Dream Sleept’ – 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 breaks 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
• Alzheimer Scotland’s Brain Health Mission – as you go through life, many factors can affect the health of your brain. Some of these you can’t control but others you can influence. See if you can identify these modifiable risk factors and keep your brain amazing!!
• Health Economics and Health Assessment Technologies – What Matters Most? You Decide! Join HEHTA for an interactive activity where you step into the role of a decision-maker. Explore the real-world challenges of healthcare choices by selecting the factors you think should matter most—like cost, effectiveness, fairness, and more—when deciding whether to implement new health interventions. Your voice helps shape the future of health policy!

• Healthy Working Lives Group – The Great Remote Working Heist! Find the mythical “Flexi Code” that restores your work-life balance.
• Self-Care with Byres Hub and COPE Scotland – explore some self-care ideas and pick up a Seven Days of Self-Care scorecard to help you prioritise self-care.
• Crack the Brain Code -Test your decision-making and learning skills in a quick-fire psychology challenge. Unlock the secrets of how the brain responds to good and bad experiences, including the link to addiction.

CONNECTIONS MARKETPLACE

In the Byres Hub Subway Outer Circle, from 12noon – 4pm, find ‘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 – ‘Dude, Where’s My (Health) Data?. Try your luck with hook-a-data-duck with Health Data Research UK and find out about the importance of your health data in understanding disease, finding cures and improving healthcare for all.
• 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 Scotland’s Dementia Awareness Week come and meet Kevin Black a Dementia Advisor with Alzheimer Scotland. He will be happy to help answer your questions about dementia, maintaining good brain health and tell you about all the support Alzheimer Scotland delivers for people living with dementia and their families across Glasgow.

• Connections through communication – Lipreading is a skill to help with communication for people 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 (SIA) is an organisation based in Scotland that focuses on promoting intercultural understanding and supporting the integration of diverse communities. Its main goals are to foster social inclusion, create opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue, and provide support for ethnic minorities and migrants in Scotland. The SIA works to address issues related to cultural diversity, racism, and discrimination, offering programmes and services that promote social cohesion and equality.

• 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.

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