There were several reasons why I started Help from Home.
(1) I was already doing home base volunteering and thought others should have know about it (2) there wasn’t really anybody else promoting home based volunteering to the same extent as to what HFH has become.

Well I now need to correct point 2 above as a website called Charity Guide is also promoting volunteer actions which can be done in bite sized chunks. The site’s concept is similar to HFH but not too similar that we’re duplicating information. Charity Guide has been going for 3 years now and I feel that we could strike up some sort of collaboration somewhere, so watch this space to see what happens.

I’ve tinkered around with the website look again. I’ve never been really happy with the home page, so I’ve given it a slightly different look again. I’m hoping this will be last tinker for some time to come.

I’ve been working on the 2 projects that I mentioned in my last blog entry, but only on the tag lines that I intend to use for each of them. Without revealing too much, these are the tag lines I’ve come up with so far. For ‘Unfolding kindness’ its ‘Changing The World with Just a Bit of Paper’ and for ‘ChariTree’, it’s ‘The personalised Present that rewrites the Past to change the Future’. Not exactly tripping of your tongue tag lines, but they are apt to the projects I have in mind to release at a later date.

Til next time.

New Features Added

Several new features were added to HFH last month, which I’ll explain below.

One thing that you’ll see is a bit of a facelift to the homepage. I’m trying to focus people’s attention on certain pages of the website in the hopes of getting a bit of interactivity going between visitors to the site.

I introduced two new features to the website. One of which were the ‘Do Good’ cards I mentioned in last month’s blog. These cards have acts of kindness printed on them along with a unique tracking number. These cards are intended to be distributed freely with the added excitement of being able to track the impact you’re making around the globe.

The other feature I added to the website were some ‘Volunteer Challenge’ sheets. The purpose behind these is to encourage people to perform a defined number of voluntary action which once completed will be rewarded with a ‘Certificate of Achievement’. I’m hoping this will be an incentive for people to volunteer more at home.

I haven’t done any promoting of the site in approximately two months, so it’s my intention now to get that back on track. However, things in the pipeline are projects called ‘Unfolding Kindness’ and ‘ChariTree’. More about these in subsequent blogs.

Til next time