About
Harrogate Spa Society is a non-profit cultural organisation advancing Harrogate as Britain’s Living Spa.
We are concerned with the past, present and future of Harrogate as a spa town, and with how its extraordinary inheritance of water, landscape, health, culture and place can continue to shape contemporary life.
Our work brings together people, knowledge and practice around a shared ambition: to carry Harrogate’s spa culture into a new age.
THE SOCIETY
The Society brings together a growing network of advisers, researchers, academics, practitioners and organisations working across landscape, ecology, heritage, health, culture and place.
We connect different forms of knowledge and expertise around the town, creating opportunities for research, collaboration and new ideas, while building relationships between local knowledge and wider thinking.
Harrogate is our starting point, but the questions are broader: how can the traditions of the spa town respond to contemporary challenges, and what might a new spa age look like today?
George Eglese
Founder & Creative Director
George is a systems designer and creative director working across place, culture, nature and community life. He founded Harrogate Spa Society and revived the Cure as a way of reconnecting Harrogate’s waters, landscapes, heritage and contemporary culture. His work brings together long-term vision, place strategy, research, storytelling and design.
Shan Oakes
Ecology & Participation
Shan works across education, ecology and community participation, with a particular interest in how people develop deeper relationships with the places they inhabit. She is helping to shape Wildbelt and the Society’s wider approach to learning, participation and the living landscape.
