Charity from home

ChatwithJacqs

Hi,

I would like to do something for charity but i would prefer to do something from home.

Any ideas of what i could do please.....

Thanks

Jacq:j

LittleVoice

Charities that have house-to-house collections might like someone to co-ordinate distribution, collection, counting activities and recruitment of people to do the footwork.

I think I've been phoned by people recruiting (or getting me back on board) and some may have been calling from home.

vikki_louise

maybe write letters, cards, emails etc to seriously ill children here https://www.postpals.co.uk?

NumboJumbo

1) You could try doing the click-to-donate websites where yuo click on a 'Donate' button, which then sends you through to another page mostly filled with the sponsors that pay for you to click through to this page. The sponsors donate money to the charity for every click-thru to the sponsors page.

Here's a website that lists many of these click-to-donate websites.
http://www.jigsaw-of-smiles.8m.com/

2) There are many home based volunteering oportunities with RNIB, but it depends on the area you live in. Here's a link to RNIB's volunteering webpage. Click on the area you live in and there might be home based opportunities for you to consider
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib001977.hcsp

3) How about offering short-term transitional homes to dogs selected from rescue centres for Hearing Dogs for the Deaf
http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/fostering.php

4) Perhaps join the online campaigns with Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth etc.

5) Write to prisoners and their families to remind them that they are not forgotten and to boost their morale.
http://www.cageprisoners.com/page.php?id=3

6) Depending on your talent/skill various online oopportunities exist to help out communities/charities elsewhere in the world. Check out this website and in particular 'Tele-Volunteering', although other opportunities exist in other categories
http://www.evolunteer.co.uk/search.php3

7) Virtual volunteering
http://www.nabuur.com/
http://www.volunteermatch.org/opportunities/virtual.jsp
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/workcareer/findjob/volunteer/articles/0,,636623_638548-2,00.html

8) GoogleUK 'Home based volunteering' and see what turns up

HTH
Mike

pmd

A few specifics, which may be included within the comprehensive listing above:

1: Click every day on The Hunger Site at http://www.thehungersite.com/ and its associated sites - you can get a daily email sent to remind you, and the quickest way I've found to do the whole group of 6 is to scroll down to the set of buttons near bottom of page to get the link to the next (ie Breast Cancer, Child Literacy, etc). Each click (but only one per day from any one machine!) contributes a little bit. Takes minutes, helps a bit.

2: If you have time to spare and are happy to work at a computer, there are lots of good causes which would be grateful for your help. They aren't in the same league as Oxfam etc, but you can help a lot of other people by converting information from scanned images into databases to make it more usable - while sitting at home and even listening to the radio! (a) FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ is converting records of Births Marriages and Deaths 1837 onwards, for a free database for the worldwide genealogy community
(b) Herbaria@Home http://herbariaunited.org/ahcontent/atHomeUser/ is sorting out records of plant specimens in museums across the UK, and so on. No botanical knowledge needed.
(c) Project Gutenberg, which provides online access to out-of-copyright books needs volunteers to check and tidy up their scanned texts - "Distributed proofreading" - see http://www.pgdp.net/c/

And there are lots more - if you contact your local history society they may well have projects involving inputting data from printed or handwritten records of local gravestones, parish records, or whatever. Getting stuff into a computer makes it so much more accessible, generally worldwide, than if it's just on paper.

So there are all sorts of ways in which you can contribute to general well-being, even if not exactly traditional charities, by sitting at your PC. Hope this helps!

Pam

seashore321

I volunteer at a charity and sometimes all we need is someone who will remove stains off good clothes or just wash and iron them. I know it's not rocket science but we don't have the capacity to wash in the shops. We and other charities would quite happily drop goods off to anyone that would help.

charityfundraiser

You could research fundraising and charity events in your area and donate some home baking to be sold at them.