- UnLtd, who are my current funders, put me in touch with a social enterprise mentor. Let's just say that my personal circumstances are changing with my day job and so I now need to look at income streams from HFH. For those that don't know, I derive no income from HFH and do it because it feels the 'right' thing to do. My newly found mentor is extremely helpful to me and it's amazing that she wants to help me out in her own time.
- Met up with Cardiff County Council, who are the local authority organisation ressponsible for the city I live in. They were very interested in my idea of them becoming the 1st 'Microvolunteer Capital of the World'. They are already the 1st 'Fairtrade Capital of the World'. I need to investigate all the ideas tabled at the meeting to see how viable it could be, but what a coup this would be if I get the city I live in to be promoting microvolunteering. Even if it doesn't go down the route of being the Microvolunteer capital of the world, I still might be able to use the experience gained from this idea to encourage other UK cities to engage their citizens in microvolunteering.
- Have been invited to co-contribute microvolunteering articles to the #1 crowdsourcing news site: The Daily Crowdsource. I will be contributing to a regular 'Microvolunteering Wednesdays' column that only started up at the beginning of the year. I will be concentrating on microvolunteering opps from HFH, whilst the other contributor from America will be focussing on those from Sparked.
- The Jewish Volunteer Network contacted me the other day and wondered whether I would add a few more microvolunteering opps to their database. Of course I said yes and so I'm uploading them up as I write.
Till next time
