- Fix someone’s fence.
- Pick up a prescription.
- Help dig a pond.
- Design a poster for a charity.
- Help move a sofa.
- Walk a dog.
- Count birds in your garden for a wild bird survey.
- Coach a sport for young people.
- Litter pick.
- Help with a school trip.
- Going to the tip? Offer to take your neighbours junk too.
- Going to the Post Office? See if anyone on your street needs something posting.
- Speak another language? Offer a lesson to a beginner.
- Offer some gardening advice.
- Offer some chicken keeping advice.
- Teach seagull impressions.
- Offer a coffee and a chat.
- Bake a cake for someone.
- Ask for assistance (asking is kind too).
- Mend someone’s holey
socksjacket. - Mow your neighbour’s lawn.
- Get someone’s shopping.
- Help make a bee hotel.
- Take part in a beach clean.
- Volunteer at a food bank.
- Give some constructive criticism.
- Offer advice.
- Help at a stables.
- Help organise a fayre.
- Help fix a neighbour’s leaky tap.
- Offer business mentoring.
- Share a new skill.
- Run a yoga class.
- Offer copy editing.
- Look after the school hamster
- Give someone a lift to an appointment.
- Give a neighbour’s kids a lift to school.
- Babysit.
- Fix a computer.
- Help search for a missing pet.
- Take Christmas trees to animal centres.
- Wash a car.
- Fix a bike.
- Volunteer at an event.
- Start a running group.
- Lend a ladder.
- Cook someone a casserole.
- Take someone on a picnic.
- Pet dogs, and pick up poop, at the dog shelter.
- Teach an instrument.
- Set a treasure hunt.
- Knit a scarf
for a goldfish. - Offer to drive.
- Bake someone a loaf of bread.
- Teach someone to bake bread.
- Put up a shelf.
- Bath a budgie.
- Invigilate an exam.
- Babysit someone’s allotment.
- Make someone a cream tea (jam first obvs).
- Help someone write a job application.
- Proof read someones resume / CV.
- Design someone a logo.
- Water a neighbour's plants.
- Do some charity fundraising.
- Work in a charity shop.
- Collect items for the local foodbank.
- Help someone get online.
- Give some professional advice.
- Volunteer as a beach lifeguard.
- Decorate a communal area.
- Be a car park attendant.
- Train to use the community defibrillator.
- Spruce up the local bus stop shelter.
- Clear the roads from debris after a storm.
- Build a bat box.
- Organise a business networking event.
- Manage a sports team.
- Volunteer as a translator.
- Help at an animal shelter.
- Train a guide dog.
- Be a mentor.
- Volunteer at a homeless centre.
- Tutor in a subject you're great at.
- Plant some trees.
- Organise a neighbourhood clean-up day.
- Hang out with elderly neighbours for a bit.
- Help maintain a community garden.
- Volunteer for a crisis hotline.
- Help at a hospital.
- Organise a community event.
- Save someone drowning in admin.
- Steward a park run.
- Be a techie for a non-techie
- Edit a video for face-tagram-tube-tok.
- Teach someone to sew.
- Help with family history research.
- Be a penpal.
- Be a dance partner for a beginner. Or non-beginner
- Start a board game club.
- Write a list of 101 kind time trading ideas. Phew. You're welcome!
