- Had a meeting with Cardiff County Council to discuss my idea of them becoming the first ;Microvolunteer Capital of the World'. This idea has been scaled down a bit, as a pilot project needs to be run first to see how it all goes. So, the scaled down project is now designed to provide microvolunteer opportunities to all 18,000 Cardiff CC's employees. Being a local authority, there are still a few red tape issues to be overcome, like health and safety/insurance, but hopefully these are minor issues and can be resolved.
- There has been some concern recently about whether the microvolunteering arena in producing any impact at all. Can such seemingly small actions achieve anything? In answer to this, I compiled an article that collated all the impact stats from as many microvolunteering initiatives I could find – 150 ish in all. Whilst it can clearly be derived that impact is being made, there have been further calls that the impact figures I provided should be broken down yet further. Although this is beyond my time and resources, I have had a request from a major UK volunteering involved organisation namely Red Foundation to collaborate with me on the more detailed research. Once some funding is in place, it’ll be all systems go for the next tranche of research. Watch this space!
- Over the past month or so, a few enquires/opportunities have arisen whereby Help From Home has provided some tailor made caused aligned action lists to fit in with an organisation’s mission/ethos. This has inspired me to promote a new free service along those lines and already five such lists have been produced – these being for African Mothers Foundation International, It starts With Us, The Laptop Project, Cardiff County Council and a project down in London which has yet to get off the ground. This is an exciting direction to be going be going in and one which I don’t know where it will lead to.
Til next time.
