Important
Announcements
We want your feedback
The team at Projekt 42 would like to know how we have helped and made a difference in our community. Projekt 42 launched in May 2017, and since launching, we have delivered more activities than we can list and supported thousands of hours of free and low-cost counselling and group therapy.
Some of the most popular activities were the free weekly yoga and fitness classes, the youth fitness club, and the senior wellness club that supported five hours of free fitness, yoga and strength and balance classes.
Running alongside the free counselling, yoga and fitness, we became an accredited training centre. Projekt 42 partnered with several CPD providers who have helped Projekt 42 support community members to complete fitness industry accredited training courses and NCFE CACHE courses that carry a UCAS points value, allowing community members to attain the necessary UCAS points they need to attend University.
We want to know how Projekt 42 helped, inspired or just how you feel about us. Can you help the team by spending two minutes completing a quick survey?
Projekt 42 Edinburgh will close on 10th June 2022
With a heavy heart, we are announcing Projekt 42 will close on June 10 2022.
Since closing the fitness warehouse in November 2020, we have not been able to find a suitable venue that is big enough to bring together our fitness, yoga and mental health activities. We have worked tirelessly to try and find a solution, but we have not been successful.
Without our income-generating activities, we cannot continue to fund free and low-cost counselling. Sadly, short-term funding opportunities do not allow us to build a sustainable service.
We have created so many unforgettable happy memories with the community, and we're so lucky to have had your support. Over the next few weeks, we will share memories of our journey from a pop-up in the Newkirkgate to the YMCA and the fitness warehouse.
We are not sure what the future will look like, but just like the resilience we teach, we're confident we will navigate the ups and downs of the next few months and bounce back with something different and new in the future.
We are really lucky to have had the opportunity to know every member who has attended a workout, yoga and mental health activity with us.
- The Projekt 42 Team
The first gym in the UK to combine mental health and physical fitness.
Read moreFitness & Yoga Classes
Practicing self-care isn’t always easy. Most of us are busy, have stressful jobs, or are too consumed with technology to make time for ourselves. Me-time is usually last on the agenda.
Our timetable is updated regularly so keep following us to be the first to hear about new classes and courses.
Bookings for activities can be made via the Glofox app (select Projekt 42 as your facility) or through the web portal.
Affordable
Counselling
Services
NEW Mental Health Hub
Our affordable counselling services give you the opportunity to access a safe environment to talk, helping you to improve your confidence and take control of your life.
You can access mental health support either online or face-to-face. Projekt 42 now offers online video and text counselling to people who need a little help and support in both England and Scotland.
Face-to-face counselling takes place at Projekt 42's Mental Health Hub that is located at Ocean Terminal, Leith.
Online counselling involves the delivery of counselling sessions via video. Sessions last for 50 minutes. Online counselling is delivered through our secure online healthcare platform. Clients are provided an appointment with a counsellor, and an email is sent with a link to a virtual counselling room.
Costs
The cost of a counselling session is based on a sliding scale from £30 to £60 per session depending on your annual gross income:
- Under £21,000 — £30 per session
- £21,000–£35,000 — £40 per session
- Over £35,000 — £60 per session
Proof of income may be requested.
Sessions must be paid for in advance either online (here) or by debit/credit card at reception.
Each week we have 50 hours of free and part-funded counselling available. You can apply for free counselling in the self-referral form below.
Due to the size of the waiting list for counselling services, the self-referral form is temporarily closed.
Support your workforce with an employee assistance programme (EAP)
At Projekt 42, we want to help employers help their employees live better lives at work and home.
E-counselling
This is a service where you email your counsellor. Your counsellors will respond within 24 hours.
All of our counsellors and psychotherapists are qualified or in the process of gaining their qualifications.
If you have any questions, please email mentalhealth@projekt42.co.uk and one of our mental health support team will get back to you.
Lifestyle
Coaching
Lifestyle coaching sessions are a place to define personal and professional goals and objectives and make plans on how these can be achieved.
Your coaching plan is based on where you are now and where you want to be. It is tailored to you, so everything you need is covered along your coaching journey. This is a process of supporting discovery and change. It's about examining everything that will help, hinder or skyrocket your development, empowering you to see things differently, understand your potential and carve out your own direction.
By committing to giving your time and energy to the process, it will enable ripples of change. The more work you put in outside of the sessions, the more positive change and fulfilment will be experienced.
To learn more and to start your lifestyle coaching journey email lifestylecoaching@projekt42.co.uk
Personal
Training
Projekt 42 is now able to provide online personal training support with the aim to allow clients quick and affordable exercise plans.
Plans are currently donation based.
To learn more and to book an appointment you can email personaltraining@projekt42.co.uk
About
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 make booking to see a Person Centred Counsellor, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist or Psychotherapist as easy as booking a fitness class. Our aim is to help communities see and understand the connection between their physical fitness and their mental health and the need to take care of both.
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.
We use the profit that would ordinarily go to private shareholders to do the following:
- Deliver over 150 hours of fitness, yoga and meditation classes each week. Everyday there are a number of free activities from fitness to yoga, and class prices starting from £1.50
- Work towards reducing the barriers families face when accessing physical fitness and mental health activities by delivering family activities, allowing children to participate in classes and having an on-site crèche staffed by a childcare practitioner
- Have a team of 80+ counsellors, psychotherapists and Cognitive Behavioural Therapists working alongside our fitness and yoga team. We provide funded counselling sessions to anyone who applies via our self-referral application form. For the most vulnerable people in our community, access to our counselling service is free and for those that can contribute, our subsidised price per session starts at £25.00.
- Provide support and funding for people to train towards completing fitness industry qualifications and support towards gaining employment
Charity
Activities
We can support several different charitable activities through the sale of the monthly membership and pay-as-you-go class fees. Every time you attend a class or continue to pay your monthly subscription fee, you are helping Projekt 42 to not only support people with free and low-cost counselling but you're also helping support the following activities.
Senior Wellness Club
Projekt 42 supports senior citizens in Leith attend group fitness and yoga activities. The wellness club runs five days a week and brings together seniors in the community for yoga, Zumba, weights based circuits and community walks. This summer, we are excited to launch our senior wellness garden, where we can bring together planting, gardening and outdoor chair yoga.
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Monday 10:45–11:45
Chair Yoga with Tea and Coffee from 12:00 -
Tuesday 10:45–11:45
Chair based circuit class -
Tuesday 13:00–15:00
Board Game -
Thursday 10:45–11:45
Strength & Balance chair-based workout -
Thursday 13:00–15:00
Movie Club
To find out more about joining our Senior Wellness Club email info@projekt42.co.uk or call 0131 555 3436
0131 2100 097
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