Find a pound or pull one out of your pocket and give it to a charity that can really use the pound to create miracles. There are thousands of charities, find one you really identify with. Guide Star and the Charity Commission provide searches and loads of information on charities and good causes. This site lists 250 of the main UK charities. Donation Doubler is an American site that lists by charity, match funding sources that will double your donations. There are many ways to give. Some sites make it easy to donate, but just like Chuggers (fundraisers that stop you in the street) most take a fee for their services. Found a Pound sponsors Tropical Wholefoods are supporting their suppliers affected by Floods in Pakistan Resources to help you learn about giving. Here are just a few of our favorite charities: Blue Sky Reducing Reoffending Through Employment MSF Médecins Sans Frontières Medical Disaster Relief Hope Street International Creation Center, Liverpool Personal Finance Education Group in Schools READ International Education Development CSV - Community Service Volunteers Survival International Support for Tribal People Suggest a charity or organisation. |
Keep the pound, give your time Do It and The Time Bank are websites dedicated to matching your time, skills and interests with a wide variety of great opportunities. Micro Volunteering, even if you have an unpredictable schedule, you can still volunteer for your favorite cause. Projects featured at CharityGuide.org can be successfully completed in 15 minutes, a few hours (just once, or every week), or during volunteer vacations. Change the world in your pyjamas, Help from Home gives over 500 ideas on volunteering activities that you can do at home from your computer (in your pyjamas) or during your lunch break at work. Some take as little as 1 minute. Learn and Practice art history, your French or Italian, chemical symbols, geography or maths and donate rice for free to the World Food Program at freerice.com. Volunteering in Merseyside Other ways... Have your say on issues that are important to you with Avaaz, or petition the government at Number 10. The Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places. Download The Illustrated Guide to Free Hugs. Give unneeded possessions
to your local charity shop. Electricals (working or not), furniture and
bulky items, DIY materials, well just about anything, can be given away
on freecycle.org or gumtree.com. |
