The Koestler Trust has been awarding, exhibiting and selling artworks by offenders, detainees and high security patients for 50 years.
It is looking for volunteers to join its established Arts Mentoring project which support ex-offender artists making the transition from custody to community. Mentors will provide ten mentoring sessions over a 12-month period. Initial mentoring sessions may take place within a prison setting, although the majority will occur within the community.
Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Older Adult service at Edward St Hospital, West Bromwich offers the opportunity for a volunteer to work with its Occupational Therapy team to facilitate a creative Arts Group for older adults with poor mental health and/or dementia. The applicant will need to have good communication skills, have an understanding of, or willingness to gain knowledge of mental health and dementia and a good level of creative arts skills suitable for this patient group.
Interns are invited to assist with Arts 4 Dementia's projects for people in the early stages of dementia, and their carers, at arts venues around London, from February to September.
In partnership with the Green Chain, Verve Arts invites submissions of photographs taken along the Green Chain route which runs through the borough of Greenwich. Thirty selected photographs will be exhibited at Elixir Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, from May – August 2012, in an exhibition entitled 'Green Chain Captured'. Deadline 19 March.
Tender is seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer to support the development and delivery of its education projects and drama based workshops with young people in schools, youth centres and pupil referral units. Its projects use drama and the arts to empower young people – and the adults that work with them – to prevent domestic and sexual violence.
Interns required to assist with the organisation of Green Chain Captured 2012 photography project and for Arts Programme development with older patients.
Bethlem Arts is looking for a Ceramic volunteer with a genuine interest in mental health for a part-time, voluntary role, assisting the pottery instructor in the running of pottery groups.
This role involves working with clients with a diverse range of mental health conditions to facilitate their engagement with meaningful activity, in this case pottery. The role would also require the volunteer to work under supervision from the pottery instructor to complete technical ceramic jobs.
Some knowledge of Occupational Therapy and client-centred working would be useful.
A new programme designed to put arts organisations in touch with business people. Organisations are invited to register their interest now, and over the next six months Arts & Business will be running volunteering matching events in cities across the country.
The London Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2012 will take place from June 13-20 this summer and promises to be a great showcase for the huge variety of arts and health activity in the capital.
