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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!
Mews Team Event: Age UK Stones End Centre (15th Dec)
Task Type: Group Mission
Charity: Age UK Lewisham & Southwark
The Stones End Day Centre provides a day care service for older people living in Southwark, supporting people with dementia and vulnerable people. The Mews team have been invited along to help out for the day. The main duties include socialising and supporting any activities we run, which can include: arts & crafts, bingo, seated exercise, and singing.
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.
Donate Your Coat To Wrap Up
Task Type: Donations
Wrap Up works with charities and community organisations providing frontline services to the homeless, the elderly, refugees, children and families living in poverty. This winter, donate any unwanted coats to someone who needs them more. Accept this action and follow the link to find your local coat donation point.
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.
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.
Understanding Loneliness with Independent Age Bitesize Talk
Task Type: Understanding Loneliness Talk
Charity: Independent Age
Watch our Bitesize talk with Emily Groves from Independent Age to hear some interesting insights into loneliness. You’ll learn some easy and implementable tips on creating connections, and it might just leave you with a whole new perspective on ageing!
Write to senior citizens for Letters Against Isolation
Task Type: Support Causes Remotely
Charity: Letters Against Isolation
Hand-write personal, cheerful, heartfelt letters and cards to senior citizens in aged care facilities.
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.
Save the coral reefs!
Task Type: Group Mission
Scientists have hundreds of hours of audio recordings taken from Marine Protected Areas around the world to monitor the success of their restoration efforts. Yet, they lack the time to listen to all of the data. This is where you come in…In just three minutes help marine biologists in their bioacoustics Ocean regeneration work - attempting to bring life back to damaged corals. Listen to a healthy coral reef and compare it to the sounds of an unhealthy reef .
Lend Your Sight with Be My Eyes
Task Type: Causes
Charity: Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers and companies from all over the world through a live video call. You could help with anything from reading a letter, distinguishing colours, or navigating new surroundings.
Donate Food to your local Food Bank
Task Type: Trussell Trust
The Trussell Trust is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom. After you accept this mission you'll be able to search for your local Food Bank and find out which items they are in need of and where to make a food donation. If you already know of a donation point, maybe at your local supermarket or community centre that is great!
Donate Clothing to local Clothing Bank
Task Type: Clothing Donation
Charity: Recycle Now
Grown out of your clothes? Not really your style anymore? Clothing banks accept your donations and distribute your clothes to those who need them most. Not sure where to donate? Either check the 'Donations' section on the Discover page or follow the link after accepting this mission to find you local donation point!
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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