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April, 2012 Update
Written on May 1, 2012 at 7:14 pm, by admin
We are proud to announce that we have a new service up and running in the guise of our Free Microvolunteering Consultancy Service. It’s aimed at introducing non profits to the concept of microvolunteering, followed by advice/guidance on creating actual microvolunteering actions themselves. As far as we know, we’re pioneering this service as we believeContinue Reading
March, 2012 Update
Written on April 3, 2012 at 8:33 pm, by admin
After a lot of dipping in and out of LinkedIn over the years, I finally took the plunge and signed up to it. Not sure how useful it will be to me and HFH, but so far it looks promising-ish. I’ve certainly found out more details about people who I’ve been in occasional dealings withContinue Reading
February, 2012 Update
Written on February 27, 2012 at 8:52 pm, by admin
LeapCR is one of the leading employee volunteering organisations out there and at the beginning of the month, they showed a healthy level of interest in Help From Home, to the point where they invited me for a phone interview. Had a good conversation with them, well in fact it wasn’t so much of aContinue Reading
January, 2012 Update
Written on January 31, 2012 at 9:04 pm, by admin
Now that our website is looking a little more zippier and zappier, we’re getting a lot more interest in our initiative – in fact the number of people visiting the site has more than doubled. We’re up to an average of 8,000 visits per month and growing. We’ve been busy recruiting volunteers via our ‘VolunteerContinue Reading
December 2011 Update
Written on December 30, 2011 at 6:27 pm, by admin
An interesting report was published at the beginning of December by no less than the United Nations Volunteers initiative. It was their very first State of the World’s Volunteerism Report and was launched on 5 December 2011 in many countries around the world. Amongst other topics, it discussed Volunteerism in the 21st Century and statedContinue Reading
November 2011 Update
Written on December 18, 2011 at 8:48 am, by admin
Woohoo, we actually got a new website design up and running with more microvolunteer actions, new video, improved actions tracker and more info on the microvolunteering arena. Anyway, have a browse around and see if it gets your juices flowing. As part of the roll out of the new website, we introduced a new projectContinue Reading
October 2011 Update
Written on December 18, 2011 at 8:45 am, by admin
We were due to launch our new look website back in October, but we now envisage a launch sometime in November, maybe even December. No definite date is planned so, watch this space is all we can say! It was spotted during the month of October that Surrey County Council became the first (as farContinue Reading
New website almost there!
Written on October 7, 2011 at 7:12 am, by NumboJumbo
Been a bit absent from blog posts of late. That’s because we’ve been working on the completely new look website that will have more functions, more actions, and more information about everything microvolunteering. We’re also going to be simultaneously launching a brand new project called ‘Help From Holiday’. Watch this space over the next 2Continue Reading
July 2011 Update
Written on August 2, 2011 at 5:46 am, by NumboJumbo
The UK government’s official website, Number 10, included Help From Home within its volunteering sections. There are only four other organisations featured on the web page and they are all the ‘main players’ of the UK volunteering world, so we’re quite chuffed to be included amongst them. The UK government in its Big Society visionContinue Reading
June 2011 update
Written on July 6, 2011 at 5:41 am, by NumboJumbo
Had a bit of a volunteer recruitment drive last month, which resulted in one person offering to volunteer for Help From Home. Many roles were put up on offer and the one this volunteer went for was to form partnerships with like minded organisations, who have the vision to integrate microvolunteering opportunities within the portfolioContinue Reading
May 2011 Update
Written on June 2, 2011 at 11:36 am, by NumboJumbo
- Had a meeting with Cardiff County Council to discuss my idea of them becoming the first ;Microvolunteer Capital of the World’. This idea has been scaled down a bit, as a pilot project needs to be run first to see how it all goes. So, the scaled down project is now designed to provideContinue Reading
April 2011 Update
Written on April 30, 2011 at 5:14 am, by NumboJumbo
- We’re looking for partner collaborations for HFH’s ‘Volunteer Anywhere’ project to take microvolunteering into schools, employee volunteering schemes and civic engagement projects via a Facebook-esque social media interaction format where it is envisaged an income stream will be produced from quantifiable social impact reports – We also launched our ‘Change the world from justContinue Reading
March 2011 Update
Written on March 30, 2011 at 12:37 pm, by NumboJumbo
- Published a ‘How To Develop A Microvolunteering Project’ handbook. It’s 40 pages big and getting alot of publicity. It explains what microvolunteering is and why you should set one up. It then moves on to developing the project, whilst also covering the all pervading smartphone app in terms of microvolunteering actions. Most usefully, 13Continue Reading
February 2011 Update
Written on February 28, 2011 at 1:04 am, by NumboJumbo
- UnLtd, who are my current funders, put me in touch with a social enterprise mentor. Let’s just say that my personal circumstances are changing with my day job and so I now need to look at income streams from HFH. For those that don’t know, I derive no income from HFH and do itContinue Reading
January 2011 Update
Written on January 29, 2011 at 12:35 am, by NumboJumbo
- HFH mentioned in the latest UK Government Green Paper, ‘Giving’ as an example of a platform that delivers non-traditional volunteering opportunities as part of their ‘Big Society’ vision- Got a few mentions in the media, most notably the UK ‘heavyweight’ The Sunday Times which included HFH in an article on mentoring people. Needless toContinue Reading
April, 2012 Update
Written on May 1, 2012 at 7:14 pm, by admin
We are proud to announce that we have a new service up and running in the guise of our Free Microvolunteering Consultancy Service. It’s aimed at introducing non profits to the concept of microvolunteering, followed by advice/guidance on creating actual microvolunteering actions themselves. As far as we know, we’re pioneering this service as we believeContinue Reading
March, 2012 Update
Written on April 3, 2012 at 8:33 pm, by admin
After a lot of dipping in and out of LinkedIn over the years, I finally took the plunge and signed up to it. Not sure how useful it will be to me and HFH, but so far it looks promising-ish. I’ve certainly found out more details about people who I’ve been in occasional dealings withContinue Reading
February, 2012 Update
Written on February 27, 2012 at 8:52 pm, by admin
LeapCR is one of the leading employee volunteering organisations out there and at the beginning of the month, they showed a healthy level of interest in Help From Home, to the point where they invited me for a phone interview. Had a good conversation with them, well in fact it wasn’t so much of aContinue Reading
January, 2012 Update
Written on January 31, 2012 at 9:04 pm, by admin
Now that our website is looking a little more zippier and zappier, we’re getting a lot more interest in our initiative – in fact the number of people visiting the site has more than doubled. We’re up to an average of 8,000 visits per month and growing. We’ve been busy recruiting volunteers via our ‘VolunteerContinue Reading
December 2011 Update
Written on December 30, 2011 at 6:27 pm, by admin
An interesting report was published at the beginning of December by no less than the United Nations Volunteers initiative. It was their very first State of the World’s Volunteerism Report and was launched on 5 December 2011 in many countries around the world. Amongst other topics, it discussed Volunteerism in the 21st Century and statedContinue Reading
November 2011 Update
Written on December 18, 2011 at 8:48 am, by admin
Woohoo, we actually got a new website design up and running with more microvolunteer actions, new video, improved actions tracker and more info on the microvolunteering arena. Anyway, have a browse around and see if it gets your juices flowing. As part of the roll out of the new website, we introduced a new projectContinue Reading
October 2011 Update
Written on December 18, 2011 at 8:45 am, by admin
We were due to launch our new look website back in October, but we now envisage a launch sometime in November, maybe even December. No definite date is planned so, watch this space is all we can say! It was spotted during the month of October that Surrey County Council became the first (as farContinue Reading
New website almost there!
Written on October 7, 2011 at 7:12 am, by NumboJumbo
Been a bit absent from blog posts of late. That’s because we’ve been working on the completely new look website that will have more functions, more actions, and more information about everything microvolunteering. We’re also going to be simultaneously launching a brand new project called ‘Help From Holiday’. Watch this space over the next 2Continue Reading
July 2011 Update
Written on August 2, 2011 at 5:46 am, by NumboJumbo
The UK government’s official website, Number 10, included Help From Home within its volunteering sections. There are only four other organisations featured on the web page and they are all the ‘main players’ of the UK volunteering world, so we’re quite chuffed to be included amongst them. The UK government in its Big Society visionContinue Reading
June 2011 update
Written on July 6, 2011 at 5:41 am, by NumboJumbo
Had a bit of a volunteer recruitment drive last month, which resulted in one person offering to volunteer for Help From Home. Many roles were put up on offer and the one this volunteer went for was to form partnerships with like minded organisations, who have the vision to integrate microvolunteering opportunities within the portfolioContinue Reading
May 2011 Update
Written on June 2, 2011 at 11:36 am, by NumboJumbo
- Had a meeting with Cardiff County Council to discuss my idea of them becoming the first ;Microvolunteer Capital of the World’. This idea has been scaled down a bit, as a pilot project needs to be run first to see how it all goes. So, the scaled down project is now designed to provideContinue Reading
April 2011 Update
Written on April 30, 2011 at 5:14 am, by NumboJumbo
- We’re looking for partner collaborations for HFH’s ‘Volunteer Anywhere’ project to take microvolunteering into schools, employee volunteering schemes and civic engagement projects via a Facebook-esque social media interaction format where it is envisaged an income stream will be produced from quantifiable social impact reports – We also launched our ‘Change the world from justContinue Reading
March 2011 Update
Written on March 30, 2011 at 12:37 pm, by NumboJumbo
- Published a ‘How To Develop A Microvolunteering Project’ handbook. It’s 40 pages big and getting alot of publicity. It explains what microvolunteering is and why you should set one up. It then moves on to developing the project, whilst also covering the all pervading smartphone app in terms of microvolunteering actions. Most usefully, 13Continue Reading
February 2011 Update
Written on February 28, 2011 at 1:04 am, by NumboJumbo
- UnLtd, who are my current funders, put me in touch with a social enterprise mentor. Let’s just say that my personal circumstances are changing with my day job and so I now need to look at income streams from HFH. For those that don’t know, I derive no income from HFH and do itContinue Reading
January 2011 Update
Written on January 29, 2011 at 12:35 am, by NumboJumbo
- HFH mentioned in the latest UK Government Green Paper, ‘Giving’ as an example of a platform that delivers non-traditional volunteering opportunities as part of their ‘Big Society’ vision- Got a few mentions in the media, most notably the UK ‘heavyweight’ The Sunday Times which included HFH in an article on mentoring people. Needless toContinue Reading