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Nest Box Challenge – Monitoring Breeding Birds

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes at a time to keep an eye on a nesting box throughout the breeding season
  • Impact:
    Helps monitor the breeding success of birds within the UK
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes as you will spend time investigating the nests

Categories: Actions, Animal Welfare, By Category, By Time, Country, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom

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Bugs Count – Investigating Invertebrates

  • Time taken:
    Up to 30 minutes (or longer) hunting for bugs in your back garden
  • Impact:
    Helps scientist investigate how environments are affecting certain bugs
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day time clothing (you’ll be outdoors a lot)

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Environment, Europe, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Craftivist Collective – Activism Through Craftwork

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes or multiple sessions of 30 minutes - depending on the craftwork activism project you participate in
  • Impact:
    To make people think, discuss and act upon global poverty and human rights issues
  • Cost:
    Craftwork materials and postage
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, Advocacy, By Category, By Time, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Multiple 30 minute sessions, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!

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Free Cakes for Kids – Making Birthdays Special

  • Time taken:
    30 minutes in total to make a cake - the oven does the rest!
  • Impact:
    Brightens up a needy child's birthday in the UK
  • Cost:
    Baking materials
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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Handmade Especially For You – Crafty Scarves

  • Time taken:
    Several sessions of 30 minutes each
  • Impact:
    Makes comfort scarves for abused women
  • Cost:
    Nothing, as free yarn is supplied
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Crafts, Do Good, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous Craftwork, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes, United States

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Children With Hair Loss – Hair Donations

  • Time taken:
    It's over in a snip, although packaging your hair up may take a bit longer
  • Impact:
    Provides real human hair for children suffering from medically related hairloss
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Donate Your Hair, Human Welfare, North America, Offline, People, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes, United States

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MyBoneYard – Recycling Electronic Gadgets

  • Time taken:
    Under 15 minutes to package up recyclable gadgets
  • Impact:
    Recycles various electronic items with the potential of raising money for charity
  • Cost:
    Nothing, as postage is pre-paid
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Green, North America, Offline, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Gadgets, Under 20 minutes, United States

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Hair That Cares – Donate In A Snip

  • Time taken:
    A few minutes to snip your hair and a few minutes to pack it in a bag for posting.
  • Impact:
    Help American Chemotherapy Patients, Progeria and Alopecia Areata sufferers to get a quality medical wig, that will boost their self-esteem.
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Donate Your Hair, Health & Medicine, North America, Offline, People, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 10 minutes, United States

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World Water Monitoring Day

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes on several occasions (if you want to) to monitor water quality in a water body anywhere in the world
  • Impact:
    Publicly shares information on water bodies for researchers to tap into
  • Cost:
    Test kit, although you could make your own up if you have the correct materials
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Citizen Science Projects, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes

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Algerian Action – Relieving Poverty

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to either collate items to donate or to hand craft toys or clothes
  • Impact:
    Relieves the stress of poverty to Algerians that live below the bread line
  • Cost:
    Crafting materials and postage
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and pjs

Categories: Actions, Africa, Algeria, By Category, By Time, Clothing for Babies and Children, Clothing for Needy Adults, Country, Crafts, Do Good, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Poverty, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Surplus Toys / Stationery / Toiletries, Under 30 minutes

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Travelling Postcards – Helping Repressed Women

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to create a postcard that expresses your words of compassion and solidarity to repressed women
  • Impact:
    Potential to create empowerment amongst repressed women to stand up against their issues in life
  • Cost:
    Materials and postage costs to an address in America
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and pjs

Categories: Actions, Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, By Category, By Time, Country, Crafts, Do Good, Haiti, Human Welfare, Miscellaneous Craftwork, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Rwanda, Uganda, Under 30 minutes, United States

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The Conservation Foundation – Plotting UK Elm Trees

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to add a UK Elm tree to an interactive map
  • Impact:
    Helps in the understanding of the elm's resistance to Dutch Elm Disease
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Collecting Tree Data, Country, Environment, Europe, Green, Home & Garden, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 20 minutes, United Kingdom

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Bikes 4 Life – Recycling Cycles

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to arrange a collection for your donated bike from your doorstep in Melbourne, Australia
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the mobility of needy communities allowing speedier access to education and medical facilities
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, Africa, Australia, Australia, By Category, By Time, Community Development, Country, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Cars and Bikes, Uganda, Under 30 minutes

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The Backyard Bee Count

  • Time taken:
    15 minutes to perform a study on the number of bees visiting certain plants in a person's back yard in America
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the overall sum of knowledge about bee populations and their effects on the natural ecosystem
  • Cost:
    Materials like pen and paper, but then you probably already have these
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Garden Insect, Bird, Flower and Animal Count, Green, Home & Garden, North America, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 20 minutes, United States

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Reuse A Shoe – Turning Shoes into Playgrounds

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to package up the shoes - a wee bit longer to actually post them
  • Impact:
    Prevents shoes from going into landfill and reuses them to make beneficial products for the community
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a U.S. address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Community Development, Green, Offline, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Recycle, Recycle Clothes & Shoes, Under 30 minutes

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