CoolTan Arts Community Legacy walks provide a great opportunity to discover hidden histories, share your stories, explore art, culture and mental health history and meet new friends whilst getting healthier and becoming part of the excitement around the Olympics and Paralympics.

We need you to help make this happen!
Gain new skills or build on existing ones, have fun, and volunteer in a safe and supportive environment … and get free training!

The weekly walk meetings take place in locations around Hackney every Tuesday 12pm-3pm and extra hours may be available with a computer from home or at the CoolTan Arts building in South London.

CoolTan Arts Volunteer Walk Leader for Community Legacy walks in East London

Role Description: Do you want to find out more about your area and meet new people, Love to wander or wheel around East London, interested in history, mental health, and art? Want to help break down stigma around mental distress? Would you like to get healthier and be part of the excitement around the Olympics and Paralympics?

This role involves researching, planning and running unique, accessible walks, as a group. Accredited training provided in Mental Health First Aid, First Aid, Walk leader training, storytelling and public speaking training, if you can help run these walks.

CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle walk leader volunteers needed in South London!

Make friends, get fit and have fun!

Help  break down stigma experienced by people with mental distress, the general public and encourage people to exercise. We plan and run montly walks every 3^rd Saturday.  It involves research in local history, developing activities, together telling stories of history in relation to mental health and the London borough of Southwark, researching, meeting people.

If you are excited by this, would like to develop your team leading skills, are creative in planning and designing group activities, then you are just the person we are looking for!

New Year, new start … new volunteer role for you?

Make it a new year’s resolution to come and volunteer at CoolTan Arts. We have lots of new and exciting opportunities for you to get involved. We started as a volunteer run organisation and our volunteers are at the heart of what we do – we couldn’t manage without you!

As a volunteer, you get a chance to gain new skills and a reference if you want one, make new friends, and volunteer in a safe and supportive environment.  Travel expenses are provided, up to £4.20 per day.

Every Wed 4pm – 5.30pm

Do you enjoy going to plays and art exhibitions? Would you like to help others to do the same? Are you interested in how exhibitions are organised and run at CoolTan Arts? Then this exciting new group is for you.

We will be researching free tickets, building links to other galleries and theatres, and going on trips. Also we will be planning, advertising, organising and evaluating trips out to see exhibitions and plays. Eventually we hope the group will be helping to plan, fundraise, set up and run exhibitions at CoolTan Arts, and other venues.

Do you have spare time in the evenings and weekends? Do you enjoy working with people? Do you want to volunteer for a charity? Join us at CoolTan Arts as events volunteer.

CoolTan Arts is a charity set up by people with mental distress in 1996, with a focus on activity and participation we are looking for volunteers. The successful applicants will be a self-motivated with a cheerful outlook who can help ensure events run smoothly.

You must demonstrate an ability to work unsupervised and in a team, use their own initiative and communicate appropriately with a diverse range of people.

We are looking for people who might be interested in contributing stories about mental health and the labels that you have been given – can be a written story or recordings for our podcasts, as a part of an ongoing project at CoolTan Arts, our Funny Farm web site and forum. It could be funny, shocking, inspiring, or simply yours; tell us about the labels you have been confronted with in life, at work and/or in hospital; learn to record and create conversations online and meet people; share and listen to your own stories.

Have a look at www.afunnyfarm.org.uk for inspiration.