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People United Arts charity using creativity to explore radical kindness. Currently collectively imagining new ways of caring

08/10/2026

Mandy and Becky spent their time practicing care and creativity at Hut 38...

During their residency, they were exploring self-care. That meant reflecting, sea gazing and experimenting; a playful practice, which lead to cyanotype prints, collaging with sublimination inks and cups of tea.

Our Hut 38 residency is open until 28 October. We have a few spots still available. So apply now and use this space and time to explore your creativity, care or a community-focused idea.

Thank you to Mandy Quy-verlander and Becky Vincer

Link in bio

In a shop near you now! Find Shae's, Elmer's, SJ's and Melo's zines at Margate Q***r Library, Margate Bookshop, Folkesto...
15/09/2026

In a shop near you now!

Find Shae's, Elmer's, SJ's and Melo's zines at Margate Q***r Library, Margate Bookshop, Folkestone Bookshop and Herne Bay Bookshop! Head down to your nearest one to get a copy.

Or find them our website with some extra juicy bits from the zine makers themselves!

We're hiring an Executive Director...Are you someone who is dynamic, forward-looking and collaborative? We want to hear ...
07/09/2026

We're hiring an Executive Director...

Are you someone who is dynamic, forward-looking and collaborative? We want to hear from you!

People United is an arts charity based in East Kent. We work with coastal communities to co-design creative projects powered by care; that includes organisationa like Kent Refugee Action Network, Age UK, Happy Here CIC, Moving Memory, The Folkestone Bookshop and Margate Q***r Library, to name a few. As Executive Director, you will be the key to our strategy, partnerships and fundraising. 
 
We’re looking for:
- Experience of senior or strategic leadership in a charity, arts organisation, or
comparable sector.
- Experience in financial management including budget setting, monitoring, cashflow, and reporting.
- Developing and delivering fundraising strategies, and managing relationships with major funders
- Strategic thinking and translating vision into deliverable plans.
- Knowledge of Arts Council England funding frameworks

Deadline: 12:00pm Monday 21 September 2026
Hours: 4 days per week/0.8 FTE
Location: East Kent (Canterbury & Herne Bay)
 
Develop our vision of a thriving, creative coastline. Be a part of the future of People United.
 
Apply today via the link in our bio

⭐️ Zine Maker Spotlight ⭐️Meet SJ!SJ is an American artist and illustrator who found home in Margate. They create throug...
29/07/2026

⭐️ Zine Maker Spotlight ⭐️

Meet SJ!

SJ is an American artist and illustrator who found home in Margate. They create through a lived experience lens of q***rness and disability. When not creating, they’re face first in the sea, cuddling their elderly cat or hanging out with their wife.

See their finished zine at the Q***r Coastal Zine Launch Party, this evening!

⏰️ 18:30 onwards

🗓 Wed 29 July

📍The Folkstone Bookshop

🎟 FREE

⭐️ Zine Maker Spotlight ⭐️Meet Elmer!Elmer Dove Gleeson is a non-binary le***an creative, self-desribed as an ”illustrat...
29/07/2026

⭐️ Zine Maker Spotlight ⭐️

Meet Elmer!

Elmer Dove Gleeson is a non-binary le***an creative, self-desribed as an ”illustrator and poetic dyke”. They currently reside on the Isle of Sheppey, and make the majority of their art digitally.

As part of Q***r Coastal Zines, their zine explores their early childhood:

“I was raised by a single mother on the poverty line, so most of our ‘days out’ as such were spent by the beach!

It was free to spend hours sprinting over stones and screaming over seaweed, and I feel it definitely had an impact on how I see the world now regarding my love of nature above pretty much all else.

Part of the zine is focused on how it felt to have to leave those carefree days behind and enter the school system, which is known to be inherently traumatic for autistic children. This combined with the homophobic and transphobic atmosphere that was the 2000’s/early 2010’s made for a very isolating and degrading time for young q***r me. However, in the great words of Leslie Feinberg - ‘Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me’.

The sea was a great comfort and still is now. Nature, specifically the beach and ocean, has potential to be one of the greatest gender neutral spaces of our society and I think we should all spend more time there.”

See their finished zine at the Q***r Coastal Zine Launch Party, this evening!

⏰️ 18:30 onwards
🗓 Wed 29 July
📍The Folkstone Bookshop
🎟 FREE

28/07/2026

⭐️ Zine Maker Spotlight ⭐️

Meet Shae! (they/them)

Shae is an activist and has a past organising an array of q***r events, festivals and workshops on s*x, kink and consent. Shae is now a s*x and relationship therapist serving the q***r and trans communities and helps q***rs foster more fulfilling relationships exploring communication, pleasure and intimacy. By night, Shae is a creative, sensitive soul who has all the time in the world for cute animals, general troublemaking, DIY and cutting up little bits of paper. They live in Folkestone and are a Q***r, Trans & Genderq***r person, who is also AuDHD, disabled, non-monogamous, and part of the kink community.

See their finished zine at the Q***r Coastal Zine Launch Party, tomorrow!

⏰️ 18:30 onwards
🗓 Wed 29 July
📍The Folkstone Bookshop
🎟 FREE

20/07/2026

Q***r Coastal Zine launch party is next week!

Join us celebrating our zine makers published zines exploring solitude, solidarity and all things solar!

Over the past few months, our commissioned zine makers created their zines diving into their relationship to q***rness, the coast and our themes for this year.

Come listen, share and connect!

⏰️ 18:30 - 20:30
🗓 Wed 29 July
📍The Folkstone Bookshop
🎟 FREE

💜💙🧡

14/07/2026

Hut 38 is officially finished!

We’ve added the last finishing touches on it. It took a whole team of us to get the last shelf up, coat of paint on and nail in the wall. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us set it up.

Thank you to for your expert carpentry. Thank you to for the beautiful mural highlighting our local nature. Thank you to our core residents, , for the adding life to the space. Thank you to for supplying our delicious paint.

We’re celebrating 20 years of People United. We’ve seen a lot of changes but this year, we revisit one of our very earliest projects - our beach hut along Herne Bay. Formerly Hut 136. Now Hut 38.

As we reboot the project that rooted us in Herne Bay all those years ago, we look forward to welcoming more of you to enjoy the space this Summer.

You can still apply to be a Hut 38 resident this Summer/Autumn. If you want to be resident in August, apply by 12:00 Monday 20 July. Link in bio!

16/06/2026

Our Hut 38 residencies continue! August is OPEN °༄
Thank you to everyone who has applied to spend time thinking carefully and creatively in our beach hut.

We've released the full calendar for August. Some dates at the beginning of the month are closed for Herne Bay Festival.

For those by the East Kent coast and interested in care, head to our website to find out more about our Hut 38 residency. Or maybe send this to a friend, you think could do with some time by the sea.

Link in bio for more details 𖦹✧˖°༄

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3 High Street
Herne Bay
CT65LJ

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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