Do you enjoy writing? Are you looking to gain some basic web skills or use skills you already have?
Come and be part of a team maintaining CoolTan Arts’ website and/or producing our monthly newsletter. These roles are very important to CoolTan but not a huge time commitment – it would be easy to do both or fit either role in with other volunteering at CoolTan.

Web volunteers:

Training will take place on the following dates:

Basic web training (essential for web volunteers): Wednesday 8th or 15th May (choose whichever date suits you best), 2-4pm
Intermediate web training (optional): Wednesday 22nd May, 2-4pm

After training, we ask for a minimum of two hours/week volunteering for at least three months.

Are you looking to practice and develop your graphic design skills, journalistic talents, photography skills or try your hand at editing or writing articles?
Come and be part of a team producing an exciting new publication! We will be launching a brand new quarterly ‘review’ style digital magazine to highlight some of the fantastic work being produced at CoolTan Arts. We will also be including in-depth articles, reviews and interviews on various CoolTan projects and other topics of interest to our readership. We are aiming to launch the first issue in the summer.

• Are you good at spotting other people’s skills?
• Do you have experience of organising meetings?
• Are you passionate about sharing your skills and helping others to gain new skills?
• Are you interested in peer support, and participant led initiatives?

We are looking for new and existing CoolTan Arts volunteers to help support two new CoolTan participant representation and feedback groups.
We would like to have volunteers supporting the set up of these groups, who have skills and experience of supporting new groups and organising meetings – we would like to use your skills to help others learn or share their skills in running meetings.

• Are you interested in the history of mental health?
• Do you want to know what is in the archives of museums about the history of mental health?
• Would you like to be a tour guide in the Science Museum and share your knowledge about mental health?

Come and join!

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in learning more about the history of mental health. We will visit museums and their archives to create six walking tours in the Science Museum, sharing our knowledge with anyone interested.

And that’s not all! We will also create a book and DVD with all the information from the tour!

The Largactyl Shuffle @ Science Museum Lates is part of All Our Stories, a programme launched in 2012 in support of BBC Two’s The Great British Story which is sponsored by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

We are looking for new volunteers for the ‘Largactyl Shuffle @ Science Museum Lates’ project!

In this exciting new project we will create and deliver guided tours at the Science Museum Lates event. We will also create a book and  DVD based on the walks and research.

Does that sound interesting? Get involved!

There are various ways in which you can be involved, as a:

Volunteer Researcher and walk leader

You will visit museums and archives, do research and write a talk, participate in various trainings (in oral history, walk leading and story telling) and guide visitors during the Largactyl Shuffle walks at the Science Museum Lates events.

Volunteer Lead project admin support

As a lead project admin support, you will work directly with the volunteer coordinator in organizing and completing the administration of the project.

Volunteer Film maker and photographer

If you are a film maker or photographer and you would like to record the visits to the archives and the walks, this is a great opportunity to help create a DVD about the project.

If you have any other skills or ideas for the project and you would like to be involved, please get in touch!

Help CoolTan Arts and volunteer!

Make friends, have fun, learn work skills, brush up your current talents, or even keep that new years resolution to be healthier…

Volunteer inductions are held every Monday at 12 noon at CoolTan Arts. Find out more about volunteering with CoolTan Arts. Book a place with Clara, our Volunteer Co-ordinator, on one of our induction sessions. We welcome volunteers with disabilities. Lots of training opportunities available, tailored to your volunteer role.
Contact clara@cooltanarts.org.uk or ring 0207 183 0357, or leave a message on 020 701 2696

Current opportunities include …

Volunteers with teaching experience to help write and deliver volunteer training sessions

Graphic designers needed!

Largactyl shuffle walk leaders and researchers – keep healthy by helping with our monthly walks

Benefits for all  volunteers:

Travel expenses up to £4.20 day reimbursed – with an oyster printout showing your journey.

Opportunity to develop and use meaningful skills

Opportunity to get useful work experience and obtain a reference

Safe and supportive environment to volunteer in

Location:

CoolTan Arts, Unit B, 237 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1RL

Nearest Tube: Elephant and Castle

Buses: 12, 35, 40, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176, 468

This is a unique volunteering role that is relevant for people wanting to help their community, learn more about the area, make new friends and build confidence. If you are interested in gaining work skills, this role is relevant for a huge range of jobs employment skills from project management, travel and tourism, health and social care, administration, journalism, photography and graphic design.

Role Description:
A great opportunity for anyone looking to use their graphic design skills to help a charity, or to gain practical experience to build their portfolio.

All our graphic design is created by volunteers, and you will go through a discussion process as you create your design that is similar to working for a professional client, but in the safe and supportive environment of volunteering for CoolTan Arts. You will also have a chance to work with other graphics volunteers if you want to, working on designs as part of a team, or volunteer from home.

Role Description:
A great opportunity for anyone interested in expanding their teaching skills, getting involved with volunteer management or sharing their experience. You will be working with adults, building on your exisiting teaching skills.

Come and help us to write and deliver exciting and creative training sessions for volunteers. This will help others to get more out of their volunteering experience and learn new skills. You or volunteers you work with may have mental distress, learning difficulties, other disabilities or none of the above…but help build on CoolTan’s ethos of inclusive volunteering by helping to train others.  CoolTan Arts is a small arts and mental health charity. Gain new skills or build on existing ones, have fun, and volunteer in a safe and supportive environment.

Here is what our volunteers say about us …

“If it wasn’t for volunteering at CoolTan I’d be in hospital, or I don’t know where I’d be. The support of the volunteer co-ordinator and staff at CoolTan made me realise I did have skills and was useful, after difficulties at my work. I was signed off sick, and started volunteering at CoolTan instead of being at home, as I found it made me feel much more positive. Another participant said ‘bad things happen to good people’, and it’s true, these conversations with staff at CoolTan were important.