Volunteering at Upbeat inspires, empowers and supports people recovering from mental health issues in taking action in their communities, on their own terms, based upon their own concerns and ambitions.
Upbeat enables people to use everyday skills to benefit others!
Help can be in many forms - performing practical tasks, befriending someone, running errands or even cleaning! Help could also be more structured e.g. Tutoring workshops or sound engineering for artists.
Client Group: Camden residents recovering from mental health issues.
Volunteer helpers do not have to be Camden residents or have mental health issues.
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How Volunteering Helps:
Enhances people recovering from mental health issues sense of self-worth, as individuals and as members of their communities, and inspires a realisation of their own capacity to effect social change
Increases the chance of people recovering from mental health issues engaging positively with their community as they can create their own projects and activities and tale ownership of their direction
Places utmost importance upon peer-led volunteering, realising that people recovering from mental health issues will benefit most from their involvement if they plan and manage their own activities
Fosters a culture of volunteering by giving people recovering from mental health issues opportunities to have creative and rewarding volunteering experiences
Develops cohesive and co-operative communities through affirmative and inclusive local action by people recovering from mental health issues
Gives a practical, relevant and dynamic expression by directly encouraging community involvement and helping people recovering from mental health issues develop a strong sense of social and moral responsibility
The emphasis throughout the process is upon the ideas, ambitions and priorities of the people recovering from mental health issues themselves, so that their projects address important issues within their lives and communities.
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