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Volunteer Centres

Are you responsible for the day to day running of a Volunteer Centre (VC) in your community or do you work for one? If so, perhaps you'd like to consider offering your 'customers' some of the micro volunteering opportunities featured on Help From Home, as we feel they would compliment those that are already listed on your database.

What is Micro Volunteering?

These are 'actions that benefit a worthy cause, where the main bulk of the task can be completed on demand in one or more sessions of up to 30 minutes, either from a person's home or on the go'.

Six Reasons for Including Micro Volunteering Actions on VC 'Books'

Volunteer hands home based volunteer opportunities might act as a taster to demonstrate the potential good that volunteering can do.

they are all just as beneficial to worthy causes as the more traditional ones

a hesitant volunteer could be introduced to micro-volunteering as the actions can be conducted in a safe and familiar environment, ie their home. This may increase their confidence about volunteering and encourage them to approach your centre for a more traditional opportunity at a later date

a potential volunteer may be thankful to your centre for introducing them to a micro-volunteer opportunity and pass this on to their friends, who may in turn visit your centre to see what else you have got on your books. Word of mouth is the greatest form of publicity!

Group of People some people might just want to squeeze in a little more volunteering in between their traditional volunteering activities. A micro volunteering activity might pique their interest in a subject which they may eventually want to pursue further through your centre

Help From Home is a free community service, so we don't charge a penny for encouraging you to include micro volunteer opportunities on to your 'books'. We're funded by UnLtd and 4iP (click on their logos at the bottom of the page) to spread some 'good' out there! Plain and simple!

Key Personnel Endorsements

Various key personnel in the voluntary sector are keen to see Volunteer Centres and volunteering involving organisations embrace micro volunteering. Here's a few below who are endorsing Help From Home's efforts to bring micro volunteering to a wider audience.

Rob Jackson, Director of Development and Innovation, Volunteering England

“Volunteering England is interested in promoting and exploring new ways for people to get involved in volunteering. Micro-volunteering is one such approach that has potential to engage more people in giving their time. We encourage Volunteer Centres and volunteer involving organisations to look at micro-volunteering and consider adding it to the range of opportunities they offer”.

Jamie Thomas, CEO, Red Foundation & i-volunteer.org.uk

"Micro volunteering offers new and easy ways for people to get involved in the community, especially if they have limited time or are new to the concept. These bite sized chunks of activity enable people to do something with tangible results that can provide great satisfaction and collectively can make a huge difference. i-volunteer is keen to support new types of volunteering and micro volunteering is already proving to be extremely popular with our community. We would encourage Volunteer Centres to provide information about micro opportunities to their volunteers as we believe it offers a unique and simple way to expand the volunteering community."

Free Downloads

Help From Home has over 500 micro volunteer actions to choose from. We've provided the following free downloads that highlight some of the actions featured on Help From Home. Each one of them can be printed off and handed out to a potential volunteer.

'Easy Peasy Actions' 'Actions To Go' A4 Poster A5 Poster

'Easy Peasy Actions' - An at-a-glance view in 2 pages of some of the more fun, but oh so easy micro volunteering actions featured on Help From Home.

'Actions To Go' - An at-a-glance view in 4 pages of all of the micro volunteer action types featured on Help From Home.

Do let us know via the Contact Us page that you're using these fact sheets though, so that we can add you to the map below. The more VCs that are shown, the more encouragement it gives to other VCs to embrace the micro volunteering opportunities out there - which ultimately benefits everybody in the long run.

Is 'Help From Home' included on any Volunteer Centre database?

Just look at the map below to see who's on board in a capacity of either promoting HFH or having included HFH on their volunteer database..