Changing Rooms Therapy & Wellbeing Centre

The Changing Rooms was originally the animal husbandry block for the Sudley Estate, and more recently changing rooms for sports played on Sudley Fields. In the early 2000s, it was closed due to the cost of repairs and for many years lay empty and deteriorating.

Over the last few years, Growing Sudley has been transforming the Changing Rooms building into a low carbon Therapy and Wellbeing Centre, with a view to providing an income for the Therapeutic Garden through sustainable social enterprise.  With public funding and social investment, as well as a community crowdfunder, a major retrofit has taken place using ecological construction approaches and renewable energy systems to create a healthy and low carbon building for the future. It’s been quite a journey, through the pandemic and subsequent financial impacts, but the construction works are complete, and the building will open in January 2025.  All income will go to the not-for-profit project in a social and circular economy.

The Changing Rooms contains 7 Therapy Rooms, 4 with treatment beds and 3 smaller rooms for talking therapies. We often get asked, but there is no large studio space suitable for classes or group sessions. The rooms operate on a half day ‘slot’ basis to give therapists flexibility and enable a wide range of services to be available.

If you’re a therapist or health professional interested in learning more about hiring our space, please get in touch with us at sudleychangingrooms@gmail.com. 

As part of the redevelopment, we’re running an extensive heritage project to explore the history of the Changing Rooms, the Walled Garden, and the wider Sudley Estate. If you’re interested in getting involved in the research, or have memories you’d like to share, you can find out more here.