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Achievements
Bearing in
mind that micro-volunteering is not exactly on the
tip of everybody’s tongue, we just thought you might
like to know the inroads we’re making in order to
increase awareness about what ordinary people can
achieve from the comfort of their own home in just
under 30 minutes - whilst still dressed in their
pyjamas. |
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How To Make
A Difference Competition
October
2009 - Honoured
with Runner Up award in a UK nationwide
competition designed for ‘small projects that are
making a BIG difference in society’. Panel of judges
stated ‘potential to grow and create change’ – which
we thought was quite nice of them to say so! |
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Regular Micro Volunteer
Newspaper Feature
January
2010 - The
opportunities on Help From Home are not your traditional
ones and it is our intention to approach newspapers with a
proposal of including a weekly / fortnightly 'Micro
Volunteering Spot', describing briefly a micro volunteer
action from Help From Home. In this respect such a regular
article is now being featured on the
i-volunteer
website, as of Jan 2010 - the first of many, we hope. |
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Funding
 February
2010 - Help From Home is now an
UnLtd
project, funded by
4iP
an initiative of Channel Four Television Corporation. |
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Helping The Housebound
March
2010 - In response to a growing interest from
organisations that care for the housebound, Help From Home
set up a scheme to promote awareness of the benefits of
micro volunteering in the hope that it may empower the
housebound to believe in their self worth, confidence and
esteem and thus improve their lives. |
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Volunteer Centres
Ongoing
- Volunteer
Centres on the high street do not address the
micro-volunteering angle at all. Help From Home is running a
campaign to encourage these Centres to add micro-volunteering opportunities onto their
databases. Check out this
Volunteer Centre
page to see how we’re doing - there's already some on board! |