Your shiny new status as a CALM Club means you’re standing with a big community of people across the UK who are creating places to share encouragement, experiences, stories, laughs, failures and successes. Being open about this stuff can be daunting, but it doesn’t need to be. We’ll be sending you loads of tools to get you going.
You’ve registered as a CALM Club
Thanks for being part of something bigger
Our hope is that we can help your group carve out a space where no conversations are off limits — whatever’s bugging you, getting you down, or making you miserable, your CALM Club is where you can let it out.
You don’t always need to have deep and meaningful chats to make your meetups about mental health, but we’re here to help those conversations feel a bit easier when they do crop up.
Getting together, doing what you love and feeling better for it is just the start. As a CALM Club, you’ll learn how to give and get support, recognise early mental wellbeing warning signs and know how to signpost to our services. It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.
What you’ll get from us…
We love that you want to do more for CALM. To get the ball rolling, we’ll be sending loads of juicy stuff for you to chat to your group about. Plus, you’ll get everything you need to deliver our digital services, run your own events and more. Here’s some of the things you’ll receive:
Monthly emails from our team to yours containing lots of advice on different topics, from anxiety to talking about suicide
Proper useful resources like our Champion Health course which will give you life-saving mental health skills
10/10 tips on how to host your own events and fundraisers
And if you’re a big venue or institution with a large membership, we can work a bit more closely with you to turn your thing into something more.
What we need from you…
Wherever your club is, whether you’ve trekked to the top of a mountain, or you’re hosting an event at your local, we’d love for you to chew someone’s ear off about what we do. Plaster our merch round your town, tell your nan about our services, sing about us in your choir group — whatever you’re up to, help promote CALM. We’d love a hand with:
Fundraising for our critical services — we couldn’t do what we do without our incredible supporters
Delivering initiatives to your members and encouraging them to clue up on how to be there for each other
Raising awareness within your community. Wear our merch at events, share CALM resources on your socials, or signpost to our Guides
How to talk about CALM to your club
Chances are, your group’s already a non-judgemental space where you can lean on one another for support. But it isn’t always easy to know how to talk about mental health. A great way to bring up difficult topics is doing it over a shared love of something. That makes your club a good platform for people to have tricky conversations. A huge part of CALM Clubs is making sure anyone connected to your group knows about CALM and the work we do. It’s also about normalising these chats so they feel a bit less scary.
Feeling stuck for words? Here’s a few ways you can check in with your team and tell them a bit more about CALM.
“What’s up team!
Just jumping on to tell you a bit more about our partnership with CALM. They’re here to help anyone struggling with life - and provide everyone with the skills to help prevent suicide. You can check out their website here: www.thecalmzone.net
We recently became a CALM Club. That means we’ll be learning life-saving mental health skills and supporting their services. They’ll have our back, so we can look out for one another.“
Some of the brill stuff other CALM Clubs have done
The sky’s the limit when it comes to what our clubs get up to. Up and down the UK, there’s people doing amazing things against living miserably. We’ve had a parkour group selling their merch to fuel our mission, comedy clubs putting on fundraising events, cycling groups doing monthly CALM rides to keep the mental health convo rolling, charity footy matches, and so much more. We’ll be sharing stories from other CALM communities to keep you inspired.
Kit your crew out with merch and materials
This is one of the easiest ways to add CALM to your club. You’ll find CALM garms, sick merch, plus all the info you need about what we do, some downloadable stuff like posters and a resource pack that will take your club to the next level.
Fundraise and be the change
We can’t do what we do without our fundraisers — it’s because of you lot on the ground raising vital funds for our services, that we can continue to be there for anyone struggling with life. Putting on an event with your club is one of the top ways you can step up for CALM.
You really can do anything against living miserably. Whether it’s auctioning off art from your club, hosting a marathon gaming session, taking your hiking group on a sponsored challenge, or putting on an event for your local community. Maybe you already have somewhere you can use to host a fundraiser for us, like clubhouses, gyms, or classrooms.
There’s so many creative ways to get behind the work we do. Discover inspiration, event materials, tips, and all you need to get your event off the ground today.
