- HFH collaborated with Twixtmas to encourage people to use the time between Christmas Day and New Years Day to do something positive for themselves, others and the planet, as well as look ahead to the future. It was a succesful campaign with articles in the media as well as on radio.
- Finally chatted to one of the Directors of VolunteerMatch, America's leading volunteer database, who was keen to see VolunteerMatch add a new category to their repetoire of volunteering types. A few hurdles to cross before this finally happens, so watch this space in 2011.
- HFH is based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, UK. Cardiff County Council have expressed an interest in exploring the potential of the benefits of microvolunteering for the citizens of Cardiff.
- Michael Norton, OBE, co-founder of Changemakers, YouthBank and UnLtd (a busy boy then!) has invited me to become a contributory partner in 2 new projects - a book and a mobile app for changing the world via very simple actions. Watch this space!
- 4 more high street UK volunteer centres are now busily beavering away at promoting microvolunteering. These are West Norfolk Volunteer Centre, Neath Port Talbot Volunteer Centre, Telford & Wrekin Volunteer Centre and Tameside Volunteer Centre.
- In tandem with Sparked.com, who claim to be the world's first microvolunteering network, we have both adopted the spelling microvolunteering without a dash... since that’s how the New York Times spells “microfinance” and since #microvolunteering is the only possible hashtag on Twitter (dashes break hashtags).
Til next time!
