Came across an initiative the other day, which in my mind truly promotes the concept of micro volunteering. It’s called ‘The Extraordinaries’ and they are trying to encourage people to volunteer their time whilst for instance they are at the bus stop, on the tube, waiting for a pizza etc. It’s all done via a person’s mobile phone and they’re suggesting that the few minutes that people have spare through the day could be devoted to helping out worthy causes. Check them out. Quote extraordinary!
I hadn’t come across the term micro volunteering before until I’d came across the The Extraordinaries website and I now realise that this is what Help From Home is promoting. Talking about promoting Help From Home has been featured in quite a few blogs last month and is now starting to get Twittered.
I was interviewed by the Huffington Post internet newspaper for an article on volunteering last month. I must say that the reporter did a very good job of what seemed to me to be random ramblings coming out of my mouth. Top marks to her.
I’m trying to promote the concept of Home volunteering to volunteer bureaux as, from my research, they don’t seem to tackle this side of volunteering at all. To this end I had a meeting with my local volunteer centre in Cardiff, UK who agreed to include my website on their books. They advised me to contact the other volunteer centres around Wales, so that is what I am going to do. I’ve actually created a web page for managers of volunteer bureaux to read, so if you know of any do let them know about Help From Home.
As the site continues to grow, so the number of web pages I add to the site grows as well. In addition to the ‘Volunteer Bureaux’ page mentioned above, I’d added a FAQs page and on ‘In the media’ page. Hopefully you’ll check them out.
In order to provide different ways of promoting the concept of Home Volunteering, I’m aiming to produce ‘Do Good; cards rather like these ones here and a Volunteer Workout Plan. The Workout Plan will be based on a Fitness Workout Plan but with a twist. More details will follow once I’ve finalised the details.
On a final note, have a read of this article about some research that shows you are likely to live longer if you are doing something positive in your life like volunteering. Quite extraordinary!
'Til next time.
I hadn’t come across the term micro volunteering before until I’d came across the The Extraordinaries website and I now realise that this is what Help From Home is promoting. Talking about promoting Help From Home has been featured in quite a few blogs last month and is now starting to get Twittered.
I was interviewed by the Huffington Post internet newspaper for an article on volunteering last month. I must say that the reporter did a very good job of what seemed to me to be random ramblings coming out of my mouth. Top marks to her.
I’m trying to promote the concept of Home volunteering to volunteer bureaux as, from my research, they don’t seem to tackle this side of volunteering at all. To this end I had a meeting with my local volunteer centre in Cardiff, UK who agreed to include my website on their books. They advised me to contact the other volunteer centres around Wales, so that is what I am going to do. I’ve actually created a web page for managers of volunteer bureaux to read, so if you know of any do let them know about Help From Home.
As the site continues to grow, so the number of web pages I add to the site grows as well. In addition to the ‘Volunteer Bureaux’ page mentioned above, I’d added a FAQs page and on ‘In the media’ page. Hopefully you’ll check them out.
In order to provide different ways of promoting the concept of Home Volunteering, I’m aiming to produce ‘Do Good; cards rather like these ones here and a Volunteer Workout Plan. The Workout Plan will be based on a Fitness Workout Plan but with a twist. More details will follow once I’ve finalised the details.
On a final note, have a read of this article about some research that shows you are likely to live longer if you are doing something positive in your life like volunteering. Quite extraordinary!
'Til next time.
