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 almost complete, and the building is set to open in late 2024/early 2025.  All income will go to the not-for-profit project in a social and circular economy.

The Changing Rooms will contain 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 will likely be operated on a half day ‘slot’ basis to give therapists flexibility and enable a wide range of services to be available.

We are now looking for therapists, health professionals and partners who will bring the building to life as a resource for community health and wellbeing.  We’ll be working on the operations model over the next couple of months and will be taking feedback from the therapy community while the finishing touches to the building are completed. Once the building is almost complete, we’ll arrange tours so people can get a feel for the space and see it it’s suitable for their practice.

If you are interested in learning more about hiring our space, please complete this expression of interest form.  Completing the form does not commit you to anything, it’s just the beginning of the conversation about how best to manage the space.

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.