Projekt 42

Projekt 42 is the UK’s first wellness centre to combine personal training, group fitness, yoga and mental health services – all in one membership subscription. We aim to help communities see and understand the connection between physical fitness and mental health and the need to take care of both. We make a booking to see a Person-Centred Counsellor, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Psychotherapist as easy as booking a fitness class. We are different to most commercial gyms. We have no shareholders, and we employ a circular revenue system where up to 40% of the membership fee that people pay to access our services goes towards paying for community members to access free and part-funded counselling, free monthly memberships and community programs. We opened in 2017 with four volunteers and now have a team of over 100 people working together to help as many of our community members access fitness, yoga and mental health services.