Volunteering
How to Volunteer on Christmas Day and Where Help Is Needed
Every November, people decide they want to volunteer on Christmas Day, start ringing round in mid December, and find every...
Every parent on your street has a cupboard full of toys their children played with for three weeks and then ignored, and every parent is also buying new ones because children outgrow things fast.
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Volunteering
Every November, people decide they want to volunteer on Christmas Day, start ringing round in mid December, and find every...
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When the first proper snow arrives, gritters stick to main roads and bus routes, and the side streets where older neighbours...
Local Action
Cars race past the school gates at 45 in a 30 zone, you have complained to the council twice, and nothing has changed.
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Most people who try to start a neighbourhood book club get a great first meeting and a sad third one.
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If someone on your road collapsed in cardiac arrest tonight, would anyone know where the nearest defibrillator is, and could...
Community Building
Most streets already have a dozen small problems that one message could solve: a parcel left at the wrong door, a lost cat, a...
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