WHAT WE DO

The Wellness Tribe CIC supports families, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and local households across Newcastle and overseas. We stand with people facing hardship, offering dignity, compassion, and hope.

🧡 Culturally Aware, Trauma‑Informed Support

Our support is shaped by lived experience and cultural understanding. We create safe, respectful spaces where people feel seen, heard, and valued.

🌱 Mental Health & WellbeingWe promote mental health through gentle, trauma‑informed guidance — helping individuals and families rebuild confidence, stability, and emotional strength.

🌱 Mental Health & WellbeingWe promote mental health through gentle, trauma‑informed guidance — helping individuals and families rebuild confidence, stability, and emotional strength.

📘 Empowering Through Learning as a registered learning provider, we offer accessible skills training that reduces isolation, builds independence, and supports long‑term wellbeing.

A WHOLE-PERSON APROACH

Lived experience guides everything we do, supported by strong professional expertise across our services. Our team brings together real and unique community insights, and specialist skills and knowledge in mental health, wellbeing, learning, Advocacy, and person-centred support.

We understand the challenges people face because we've lived them too.

At The Wellness Tribe CIC, we see mental health and wellbeing as a journey that touches every part of life.

Our logo reflects the eight dimensions of wellness we focus on:

Physical — healthy bodies and daily habits.

Emotional — resilience and inner stability

Intellectual — learning and growth

Social — connection and belonging

Spiritual — faith, purpose, and peace

Environmental — safe, supportive surroundings.

Occupational — meaningful roles and progressionFinancial — stability and reduced hardship.

By centring these eight dimensions, we support the whole person — helping individuals build balance, fulfilment, and steady progress across all areas of life.

BE PART OF THE TRIBE

Share your ideas and collaborate with us to tackle the deeper factors that lead to poor mental health, prevent illness, and ensure vulnerable individuals receive the essentials they need to survive and thrive. Your partnership helps us bring dignity, stability, and hope to those who need it most.Get in touch — we value meaningful partnerships and would love to hear from you.

Your donation can transform mental health and wellbeing in our communities. With your support, families like Neil’s can find hope, stability, and the care they need.Together, we can build a brighter future for those who are struggling — a future where no one has to face their challenges alone.

BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS AND IMPROVING SERVICES WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE SUPPORT 

A VISION THAT TRANSFORMS LIVES

In 2021, when we piloted a perfectly placed community space in Newcastle city centre called The Wellness Community Hub. This hub became a safe, welcoming home for people who needed connection, support, and dignity. It allowed us to expand our services, deepen our impact, and rebuild lives with compassion and care.Although the hub is now closed, its legacy continues to guide our work. The learning, relationships, and transformation that took place within those walls still shape our community‑led support model today.

We now deliver support in flexible, accessible ways that meet people exactly where they are:Outdoors — walking support, wellbeing sessions, and community connectionDoor‑to‑door delivery — essentials, wellbeing packs, and crisis supportCommunity venues — working alongside partners to reach more familiesRemote support — WhatsApp, phone, and video for those who cannot attend in person.

Our vision remains rooted in compassion, innovation, and lived experience — ensuring that every person we support feels seen, valued, and never alone.

TACKLING THE MIGRATION CRISIS WITH MEARS

Our partnership with Mears Group, one of the UK’s largest housing providers for asylum seekers, is a vital part of our mission to support vulnerable individuals across Newcastle. Mears has formally recognised the essential role we play in improving the wellbeing of people living in temporary accommodation, highlighting our work in wellbeing sessions, befriending, gym memberships, food parcels, hygiene packs, digital access, and one‑to‑one emotional support.

Their endorsement reflects the deep impact of our culturally competent, community‑led approach — an approach that restores dignity, strengthens stability, and brings hope to those navigating the asylum process.

 

Buy here to support Africans at risk of dangerous migration crossings. Your purchase helps individuals earn an income, remain in their communities, and access the vital support they need to stay safe, stable, and hopeful.

Organic African teas

Browse our webshop to discover organic and handmade products — including African organic teas, natural powders, shoes, jewellery, and clothing. Every purchase supports livelihoods, strengthens communities, and helps people build safer, more stable futures.