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National Trust: The Big Family Day Off
The UK conservation charity is launching ‘The Big Family Day Off’ – in a bid to get thousands more families volunteering to help preserve and protect historic places and spaces. Read more.
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Casserole
Casserole is a neighbourhood food sharing scheme that connects people cooking at home with others in their community who could benefit from a home-cooked meal. Read more.
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iReach
iReach will be an online hub connecting charities with talented professionals who want to donate their skills. Read more.
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Inspiring The Future
Inspiring the Future is a free service that matches state schools with people from all sectors and professions who want to volunteer their time to talk about their education or careers. Read more.
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Young Scot Rewards
Young Scot Rewards is an innovative national platform which aims to encourage young people to participate in positive activities by offering points which can then be used to unlock rewards like “money can’t buy” experiences. Read more.
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Mencap: Kids for Good
Mencap, the voice of people with learning disabilities, intends to partner with JustGiving to launch a new platform to re-ignite giving by school children, their families and friends. Read more.
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Growing Together
Growing Together is a unique new partnership of voluntary sector organisations, which aims to unlock land for community growing use. Read more.
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Keep Britain Tidy: Love Where You Live
Keep Britain Tidy is working with a range of tech partners to reward and recognise the work of its supporters, while generating new income streams. Read more.
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Care Bank
Care Bank is a new initiative that allows volunteers to earn credits that can be exchanged for services within the local community, or gifted to people in need of support from i.e. a good neighbour or befriending scheme. Read more.
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FoodCycle
FoodCycle is testing three new models to scale its network of volunteer-powered hubs – which address food wastage, food poverty and social isolation. Read more.
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Give What You’re Good At
Give What You’re Good At matches professionals who want to give their skills to charities who need talent. Read more.
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Dot Dot Dot Property
Dot Dot Dot gives people who do great voluntary work cheap homes by placing them in properties which would otherwise be empty, on a temporary basis. Read more.
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See The Difference
See the Difference is an online platform that enables innovation in giving through the creation of brand new apps, events, brands and social experiences that make giving fun, engaging and rewarding for 16-45 givers. Read more.
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Do-it Connect
‘Do-it Connect’ seeks to dramatically increase the number of people volunteering by introducing new ways for organisations to recruit the volunteers they need. Read more.
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timto
timto is an engaging group gifting service that encourages people to make charitable donations an integral part of any celebration. Read more.
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Slivers-of-Time
Slivers-of-Time makes it easier for people to volunteer their spare time to employers, voluntary organisations or their local community. Read more.
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The DoNation
The DoNation is a new form of sponsorship that replaces cash with action, enabling people to actively engage their friends in doing social and environmental good. Read more.
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Marie Curie Cancer Care: Supportal
Marie Curie Cancer Care is dedicated to the care of people with terminal cancer and other illnesses. The charity is looking to increase donations through a new gaming platform, making giving more reciprocal and fun. Read more.
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Ministry of Stories
Ministry of Stories is a creative writing and mentoring centre for young people in east London, hidden behind a monster supplies shop. Led by volunteers, it aims to inspire a nation of young storytellers, and now wants to expand nationally. Read more.
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Payroll Local
Payroll Local will use the Brixton Pound electronic currency to enable Lambeth Council staff to support local businesses and donate to local charities and social enterprises. Read more.
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Horsesmouth
Horsesmouth.co.uk is a safe, moderated online venue for informal one-to-one mentoring covering all the important aspects of life, from health and wellbeing to career choices, employability and business support. Read more.
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Project Dirt
Project Dirt is a grass roots social networking site that enables people and organisations to give their time, expertise and resources to local environmental projects. Read more.
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WWF and Scope
WWF, one of the world’s largest conservation organisations, is teaming up with SCOPE, which supports disabled people and their families, to address their shared giving challenges. Read more.
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Good For Nothing
Good for Nothing (GFN) supports a community of people who give their time, skills and energy for free to make a positive impact on charities, social enterprises and other good causes. Read more.
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SE Assist
SENCS (Social Enterprises Need Corporate Support) aims to link large businesses and their employees with local social enterprises through a community investment model. Read more.
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Solar Schools
Run by 10:10, Solar Schools is an innovative project that enables schools to crowd-fund the cost of installing solar panels. Read more.
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HackneyShares
Hackney Shares is a borough-wide time bank network that will facilitate the exchange of time and resources for people and organisations via an ebay-style online platform. Read more.
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Tyze Personal Networks
Tyze Personal Networks is an online tool that facilitates the provision of formal and informal care by enabling people to create a private community centred on one person. Read more.
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DigitalME
Makewaves Experts, the new platform from DigitalME and Makewaves, empowers parents to contribute to their children’s education by sharing their knowledge and skills. Read more.
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Streetbank
Streetbank.com gives neighbours the opportunity to offer their time and skills - or lend and give away consumer products - to anyone living within one mile of their home. Read more.
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Garage Sale Trail
The Garage Sale Trail is a marketplace that allows communities to reduce waste to landfill, enable new neighbourly connections, provide a platform for fundraising and stimulate local economies. Read more.
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Peoplefund.it
Peoplefund.it is a new crowd-funding platform that enables people with business ideas that might just change the world to raise funding and gain support from the public. Read more.
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Ecomodo
Ecomodo.com enables anyone to lend out things they are not using (like drills and iPads), skills they have to share (like gardening) and spaces (like spare bedrooms) directly to others either for free, for a small fee or for charity. Read more.
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The Amazings
The Amazings is a social venture that helps older people to share their knowledge and skills with their communities. Read more.
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Cool2Care
Cool2Care is launching a new Family Reciprocity programme that makes it easier for families with disabled children to connect and support each other through the exchange of time. Read more.
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JustGiving
JustGiving local will provide an easy way for people to use the web to raise funds for social and local projects. Read more.
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National Funding Scheme
The National Funding Scheme (NFS) is a mobile giving platform, freely available to all arts and cultural organisations. Read more.
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Blue Dot
Blue Dots are a new social currency used to reward people for volunteering, donating or ‘liking’ non-profits on Facebook. Read more.
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Chip In
‘Chip In' is a range of uniquely designed, interactive, contactless payment card readers which make charitable giving fast, fun, and harmonious with urban lifestyles. Read more.
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The People Who Share
The People Who Share are building a digital marketplace that will make it easy for anyone to share, rent, buy, sell and swap things in the Sharing Economy. Read more.
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Young Philanthropy
Young Philanthropy (YP) introduces young professionals to a career of giving and develops their potential as leading philanthropists. Read more.
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Givey
Givey uses social technologies like sms and twitter to encourage people to support the causes they care about, track the impact they’re having and connect with other people who also want to make a difference. Read more.
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Guess2Give
Guess2Give is a world-first for fundraising that allows anyone taking part in an event to setup a sweepstake to raise money for charity. Read more.
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Women Like Us Careers Online
Women Like Us Careers Online will be a new digital network, enabling women to exchange skills and advice on balancing work with a family. Read more.
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Apps for Good
Apps for Good is an acclaimed technology education programme that teaches young people how to build mobile and Facebook apps to solve real problems with the help of professional volunteers. Read more.
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Locality Brokers
Locality Brokers matches private sector property professionals with communities championing a planning, land or building project in England for mutual benefit. Read more.
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Open Source Timebanking
Timebanking UK will develop and implement an open-source, free-to-use platform to significantly reduce the barriers to entry for setting up, joining or managing local timebanks. Read more.
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Age UK
Age UK is partnering with Innovation in Giving awardee Ecomodo to develop a new giving platform, enabling both organisations to have a greater social impact. Read more.
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GoodGym
GoodGym makes it easy for people to combine exercise with doing good in their local community. Read more.
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PositiveBid
The PositiveBid web application enables fundraisers to run mobile auctions during charity events. Read more.
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Photofoundation
Photofoundation is a social enterprise which enables people to give to charities by donating their best photos to an image bank. Charities can use the images for free, for their websites or marketing campaigns. Read more.
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somewhereto_
somewhereto_ helps young people find the space they need to do the things they love. Read more.
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United Response: Give Where You Live
The national charity that supports people with disabilities and mental health needs is embarking on an ambitious project to transform its culture of giving. Read more.
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Spice
Spice have pioneered a new breed of time banking which is injecting a fresh sense of purpose and energy into some of the most deprived areas of Wales. Having proved its worth, Spice now want to take the approach to England. Read more.
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Greeniversity
Greeniversity is a skills share initiative that gives people the opportunity to volunteer to teach or learn ‘green skills’, to use in their local community. Read more.
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Care4Care
Care4Care is a new membership organisation where members spend a few hours a week supporting an older person in their local community and in return build up their own “care pension.” Read more.
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Believe.in
Believe.in is an online platform where individuals can create a profile around their charitable identity, raise funds and rally support for the causes they care about. Read more.
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re:act
re:act is an innovative web service being developed by OneWorld UK. It will connect people with the most relevant opportunities for giving based on their digital browsing habits. Read more.
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#wewillgather
#Futurecleanup uses social networks to galvanise mass civic participation and action; a flashmob approach to taking practical action to improve your neighbourhood from the organisers of #riotcleanup. Read more.
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Buzzbnk: Go Mobile
Buzzbnk connects social ventures who need funding with backers who want to pledge time, money or social media (or all) support. Read more.
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GoodPeople
GoodPeople is a web-based talent platform – built on top of social technologies such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook – helping organisations attract people who want to use their skills to support the causes they care about. Read more.
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The Children’s Society
The Children’s Society, which works to ensure young people are happy, valued and respected, is looking to make giving more personally relevant and transparent. Read more.
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The Pennies Foundation
The Pennies Foundation, the creators of Pennies the electronic charity box, are developing an eToolkit to enable online retailers to more easily join the micro-donation movement and raise money for charity. Read more.