AMSTERDAM
Below you will find lots of opportunities organized by our volunteer partner, OnHand.
Click the relevant links below to either sign up to opportunities directly or
sign up via the OnHand app where you can collect points, help to plant trees and easily track your time!
Ending Homelessness with Crisis
Task Type: Bitesize talk
Charity: Crisis
Accept this mission to watch an exclusive interview hosted by onHand founder Sanjay and guest Liz, Head of Entrepreneurship at Crisis. They discuss homelessness, what Crisis is doing to combat an issue that affects hundreds of thousands in the UK... And most importantly you'll find out what you can do to help!
Fighting Food Insecurity
Task Type: Bitesize talk
Charity: FEAST With Us
14% of UK adults experienced food insecurity in 2022. Likewise, 3 million tonnes of food is wasted in the food system every year. FEAST With Us is a charity working to provide nutritious meals, avoid surplus food waste, and combat these stats. Join Caroline Monkhouse Flower, CEO of FEAST With Us, as she speaks to OnHand CEO Sanjay about food insecurity, her journey into the charity sector, and what we can do as individuals to help.
Tackling Social Isolation with Charlie Allen
Task Type: Bitesize talk
Charlie Allen founded Run Social after wanting a way to connect with people that was accessible to non-drinkers and low-income people. Run Social is now one of the biggest collective running clubs all across the country. Watch to hear about Charlie’s journey and also what’s next on the cards!
Donate baby items to Stichting Babyspullen
Task Type: Donations
Charity: Stichting Babyspullen
The Babyspullen Foundation believes that all children have the right to a fair start in life, regardless of the financial situation they are born into. The Babyspullen Foundation contributes to this by relieving (expectant) parents in poverty and providing their child with basic items from birth to two years by donating baby starter packs. These packages are composed of new and used baby items and contain clothing, bed and bath linen, care products and small toys. Stichting Babyspullen aim to
collect as many items as possible to make the baby starter packs.
Lend Your Sight with Be My Eyes
Task Type: Bitesize talk
Charity: FEAST With Us
14% of UK adults experienced food insecurity in 2022. Likewise, 3 million tonnes of food is wasted in the food system every year. FEAST With Us is a charity working to provide nutritious meals, avoid surplus food waste, and combat these stats. Join Caroline Monkhouse Flower, CEO of FEAST With Us, as she speaks to OnHand CEO Sanjay about food insecurity, her journey into the charity sector, and what we can do as individuals to help.
Solo Eco Clean
Task Type: Eco Cleanup
An eco cleanup is an easy way to make a difference in your local community. Choose an area where you can make a big impact and spend an hour or two (or longer!) collecting litter. Please to dispose of the litter into a bin/somewhere you know it will be collected.
Help Identify animals in live images across the world!
Task Type: Animal Support
Charity: ZSL
ZSL’s Instant Wild empowers you to take part in vital conservation work, bringing you LIVE images and videos from amazing locations all around the world. By identifying the animals in each image, you are contributing to conservation and making a positive impact on the future for wildlife.
Write a letter to an elder
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Love for your Elders
Everyone deserves a mailbox full of love letters, and Love For Your Elders are on a mission to make that happen– they've sent 500,000 letters of love around the world. So take a few minutes, sit down, and write a letter. Tell them about yourself, maybe share a joke or a riddle and let them know that they are loved. When you accept this mission a link below will appear which will show you the letter requests for that month. They have guidelines on what the letter should and shouldn't include.
Sign the Global Plastics Treaty
Task Type: Causes
Thanks to people like you, governments have now started UN negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty. This treaty has huge potential to set us on the path to a plastic-free future. Now it’s up to us to make sure it delivers on its promises. Join the call and demand an ambitious and strong global plastics treaty that will limit plastic production and use.
Send a Message of Hope
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Women for Women International
Since 1993, Women for Women International has invested in the power of over 500,000 women who are forgotten — the women survivors of war and conflict — to learn the skills they need to rebuild their families and communities. Their vision is to create a world in which all women determine the course of their lives and reach their full potential.
Tell a story of a lifetime
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Small Acts of Kindness
There is a story in all of us to tell, and we want you to share yours with family, friends and us too! So why are we asking you to have the conversation of a lifetime? There are moments in our life that perhaps we’ve never shared before; achievements, journeys, people we’ve met, places we’ve travelled to or worked at, those we’ve loved and those we’ve lost, where we’ve come from and where we’ve ended up, funny anecdotes and special occasions.
Donate food to Voedselbank Amsterdam
Task Type: Food Donation
The Amsterdam Food Bank, in line with the Netherlands Food Banks, has as its main goal: to provide people with food if they are temporarily unable to do so on their own. They do this by collecting food that would otherwise be thrown away. With long-lasting products you make their customers very happy, for example, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, soup, canned or jarred vegetables and fruit, dried beans, canned fish, coffee, tea, breakfast cereals, toppings, nuts or sunflower oil. Deliveries can be made from Monday to Friday at Archangelkade 11 in Amsterdam between 9:00 and 16:00.
Donate clothing to Kringloop Centrum Zuidoost
Task Type: Clothing Donation
Charity: Kringloop Centrum Zuidoos
Kringloop Centrum Zuidoost is a charity shop that serves the local community through selling second hand goods. Do you have clothing items that you no longer wear? You can donate clothing items you no longer need, and that deserve a second life!
Coffee Mate
Task Type: Pledge
Pledge to buy a coffee or hot drink for a person experiencing homelessness.
Understanding Homelessness with Beam founder
Task Type: Bitesize Talk
Accept this mission and watch along to our interview hosted by onHand founder, Sanjay and guest Alex, Beam founder, who discuss homelessness and what you can do to help.
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