CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle Sponsored Walk October 10, 2009

CoolTan Arts runs a unique Sponsored Walk on Saturday 10 October 2009, from the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, to Tate Modern, Bankside, celebrating World Mental Health Day, challenging stigma associated with mental distress and raising money for CoolTan’s groundbreaking and popular work. We’ll have poetry readings in the park, prizes and surprises!
This is a major public event, inclusive, open to all and suitable for people with disabilities.
CoolTan Arts Sponsored walk marks Get Moving Week, part of the Time to Change campaign that will get people exercising to improve their mental wellbeing.

David Morris, Disability Advisor to the Mayor seconded to the London Olympic Organising team until 2012, has participated at CoolTan Arts Sponsored Walk in 2008 and will join again this year. He says ‘London’s most fascinating inclusive walk ever’. He will lead the walk from Maudsley Hospital, along with Valerie Shawcross, London Assembly Member & Deputy Chair of Transport. The Mayor of Lambeth, Christopher Wellbelove, will say a few words at the beginning of the walk.
TV Chef Rosemary Shrager and actress Julie McNamara join CoolTan Arts’ walkers for frolics and fun at the East Room of Tate Modern where we all relax and celebrate our achievements with well earned healthy and delightfully delicious cakes.
The money raised at the Sponsored Walk will ensure CoolTan Arts can continue to run top quality art workshops, reach more people with their services, and help them move from their dilapidated warehouse to suitable buildings with 21st century heating and toilets!
Get involved and help make mental health a global concern. Go to http://www.justgiving.com/cooltanartsteam to sponsor us, or even better, join the walk, get yourself sponsored, improve your mental wellbeing and combat mental health discrimination.
Check www.cooltanarts.org.uk for more detail, email us on [email protected] or call 020 77012696 for more info and to sign up for the sponsored walk. It's just £5 to register and you can raise as much or little money as you want.

Official Website: http://www.cooltanarts.org.uk