Help from Home

- HFH collaborated with Twixtmas to encourage people to use the time between Christmas Day and New Years Day to do something positive for themselves, others and the planet, as well as look ahead to the future. It was a succesful campaign with articles in the media as well as on radio.- Finally chatted toContinue Reading

- Was interviewed by a few newspapers with corresponding articles in each one. These being Alt:Cardiff (run by students in Magazine Journalism, Cardiff University) and Sunday MidDay (a leading newspaper in Mumbai, India no less than) – More UK high street volunteer centres are promoting the concept of micro-volunteering and HFH, either through articles orContinue Reading

- Director of Communications at VolunteerMatch (probably one of the largest volunteer database in the US) wants to chat with me about exploring the possibility of including micro-opps on to their database. If I can pull this one off – WOW! Watch this space! – HFH has inspired ‘vinspired.com’ to create a brand new categoryContinue Reading

I’m 1 of 3 shortlisted people for the Wales, UK region in TalkTalk’s Digital Heroes competition for my efforts to promote micro-volunteering through Help From Home. Would appreciate your support and if you’re so inclined, you may wish to vote for me, Mike Bright, here http://www.talk-talk.mirror.co.uk/region-wales.htm No registration needed, just 1 click to vote! ThisContinue Reading

- i-volunteer.org.uk launched their micro volunteer campaign based on how HFH promotes micro volunteering, ie. in yer pyjamas. From what I can see, its gone global prolly because of its cheeky/provocative poster of 2 people in a bed doing… what 2 people in a bed do. …Ooh, err! It also won the Third Sector’s ‘DigitalContinue Reading

- i-volunteer.org.uk (the only UK social network that connects volunteers, charities and volunteer managers across the UK) is going to be launching phase 2 of its services to the volunteer sector within the next week. They have chosen micro volunteering as the thing …they will be focusing on, largely in part (and forgive me forContinue Reading

Here’s a brief summary of things that happened to Help From Home during the merry month of July: – Received an invitation to participate in a survey from Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite, as they want to provide volunteering opps to their 50,000 employees worldwide as well as for their customers. They were interested in tradContinue Reading

Not much happened during the merry month of June as Help From Home was ‘out of town’ so to speak. Still, I managed to add a ‘Business Case for Employee Volunteering’ webpage to compliment the ‘Lunch Break Volunteering’ campaign I’m running at the moment. Some other brief snippets of ‘happenings’: – Managed to secure theContinue Reading

Last month saw quite a few organisations show a bit of interest in Help From Home as well as say some nice things about it (whether they say that just to be nice to every initiative that comes along is something I’ll never know). Anyway, here’s a few organisations who showed a bit of interestContinue Reading

The month of April brought a flurry of interest from what I consider to be some key personnel in the UK voluntary sector. Take for instance: – the Rt Hon Angela Smith, Minister for the Third Sector of the current UK government. She wanted to discover a bit more about HFH, so a meeting wasContinue Reading

Held a few meetings with the Cardiff Institute for the Blind and Royal National Institute for the Blind Cymru over the past month. I approached them to see if there was any scope in introducing some of the home based volunteering actions featured on HFH to some of the visually impaired people, who through theirContinue Reading

A few things have happened this month which have steered me off the route I was originally taking with Help From Home, but which I thought were worth spending the time exploring. 1.There have been a few queries raised in some forums about the effectiveness of micro volunteering initiatives. These amongst others, have come fromContinue Reading

I received news at the end of January that UnLtd and 4iP, an initiative of Channel Four Television Corporation, have awarded me free funding of £5000 to help promote the concept of micro volunteering. I am indebted to their kindness, as I’ve been funding HFH from my own back pocket up til now. I thinkContinue Reading

Not me. I entered Help From Home into a UK nationwide competition a couple of weeks ago for ‘small groundbreaking projects that are making a BIG difference.’ I entered the competition and promptly forget about because it’s one of those things you do impromptu and think ‘seriously, me winning – never.’ Surprise, surprise I didn’tContinue Reading

I’ve had a bit of a purge of some of the actions listed on the website, as I noticed that there was quite a few links that were pointing to out of date pages or sites that were no longer active. The flipside of this, is that I’ve had a bit of a splurge onContinue Reading