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.

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!

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.

Funding

February 2010 - Help From Home is now an UnLtd project, funded by 4iP an initiative of Channel Four Television Corporation.

Helping 'Care' Services

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.

Micro Volunteering Survey

April 2010 - Help From Home conducted what is believed to be the first ever survey into the micro volunteering arena. It's intention was to be a snap shot of the current playing field and to be used as a springboard to dig deeper as part of a further research project.

Help From Work - Change The World In Just Your Lunch Break

May 2010 - Part of Help From Home's Vision is to encourage office workers to use part of their lunch break in a more meaningful way. In this respect, Help From Home added a new webpage to kick start this campaign into life. Check out the tasty bite sized micro volunteer actions you can do to benefit worthy causes in your lunch break!

WCVA - Helping to Promote Micro Volunteering

June 2010 - Volunteer Centres on the high street do not address the micro-volunteering angle at all. Have managed to obtain co-operation of WCVA (Wales Council for Voluntary Action) to promote micro volunteering to all of the Welsh high street volunteer centres. This is a mini breakthrough, as they are the first main UK voluntary body to acknowledge and promote micro volunteering.

Volunteer Centres

Ongoing - Help From Home is running a campaign to encourage high street volunteer 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!