Last month saw quite a few organisations show a bit of interest in Help From Home as well as say some nice things about it (whether they say that just to be nice to every initiative that comes along is something I’ll never know). Anyway, here’s a few organisations who showed a bit of interest in Help From Home and what they promised to do.- Community Channel, which is a TV channel/website, have hinted that they are interested in showing a video that I made about micro volunteering on their TV channel. A few technical issues have to be ironed out first. Watch this space!
- Media Trust, which is the parent company of Community Channel, have hinted that they are interested in including Help From Home in a UK National Guide to Volunteering. They are interested in the ‘Do Good’ card campaign as well as the ‘pyjamas’ hook I use. Watch this space!
- NAPA (National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People) have hinted that they are interested in writing an article about Help From Home concerning its efforts to engage residents of care homes in micro volunteering via its meaningful activity programme suggestions. Watch this space!
- Vinspired, a website that promotes volunteering in the UK between the ages of 18-25 have hinted that they would like to include Help From Home onto their database. They attract over 100,000 visits/month so that would be quite something if I could get on their database. So far, I’ve not been able to get the appropriate form from Vinspired to get to the next stage. Watch this space!
- Voluntary Action Cardiff (VAC) have hinted that they would like to see an article about Help From Home in their next quarterly magazine, due out in September. Watch this space!
- Seems to be a lot of staring into space lately!
In other news, I am gearing up for an email campaign directed at all the Volunteer Centres in the UK, to try and encourage them to consider promoting micro volunteering if a ‘customer’ seems to be interested in something like this. So far I have got Rob Jackson one of the Directors of Volunteering England to endorse this campaign which I hope will add a bit more weight/credibility to it. I do hope it will be a stepping stone to reel in some more big fry from the UK voluntary sector.
I’ve also freshened up the website a bit with swishes of green and orange lines instead of the previous dominant purple colour. I’ve also added a bit more emphasis to the pyjama hook I use to encourage people to micro volunteer.
Til next time.
