Environment and Conservation
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 Join Action for Insects today to take practical, positive action in your own home and garden to help insects |
The Wild Nature Reserve measure wild Masai giraffes for a study of growth and survival. They need your help to analyse the thousands of photos triggered as giraffes pass the cameras.
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We’re challenging you to keep enjoying nature, whilst staying at home. Explore your garden and appreciate the amazing diversity of wildlife found there. We’re aiming to gain an insight into the species found across Cheshire’s garden habitats and would love you to join us through recording the wildlife you see in ‘Your Patch’.
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Instant Wild
empowers you to take part in vital conservation work by bringing you LIVE images and videos from amazing locations all around the world for you to identify.
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 Review footage of chimpanzees to help anthropologists identify their behaviours, relationships and environement. |
 Floating Forests helps to uncover the history of kelp forests. Given the worldwide distribution of kelp, we need your help to track it across time and space. |
Penguin Watch.
Count penguins in remote regions to help researchers understand their lives and environement.
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eBird.
Contribute to global birdwatching sightings and join this global birdwatching community. More than a 100 billion sightings are contributed annually by eBirders.
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People and Communities
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As you play Freerice and answer questions right, advertisements appear on your screen. When you see one of these advertisements, you trigger a financial payment to the World Food Programme to support changing lives around the world.
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Every Name Counts
This project aims to transcribe information from the Arolsen Archives which contains information on the victims and survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. This project aims to transcribe this information into an online archive, to ensure that every name is counted and ensure that people can find out the fates of their relatives.
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Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low vision people with volunteers for visual assistance through video calls.
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Call Companions for Re-Engage make regular telephone calls to lonely and isolated older people providing a lifeline of friendship. The regular chat and companionship offers a vital link with the outside world.
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 Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help put the world's vulnerable people on the map by mapping areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people. |
 Localgiving is a not-for-profit that specialises in supporting vital grassroots causes that are working on the frontline in the current pandemic and desperately need more volunteers. This digital volunteering focuses on tasks that can be completed remotely wherever the volunteer is based, rather than face-to-face volunteering. This means that students can gain applicable experience of working within the charity sector from their own homes.
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The United Nations(UN) have a huge range of online volunteering projects, which allows volunteers to support and address sustainable development challenges worldwide.
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Shout is the UK’s first free, confidential 24/7 text support service. Shout Volunteers are the first point of contact to someone in distress who uses the text service. You will need to be resilient and commit to the training offered for this rewarding role.
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Languages
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LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet.
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Phrase Detectives is the place for lovers of language and literature, where you can work together to improve future generations of language technology. By indicating relationships between words and phrases you will help to create a resource that is rich in linguistic information.
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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in combination with others, needs your help to classify some very short recordings of babies’ speech sounds to help better understand the very first stages of language learning!
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Translators without Borders is a non-profit working towards a world where knowledge knows no language barriers. If you speak a second language you can use your skills to help provide translation and simplification services.
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Letter writing and other crafts
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The charity helping you to ‘Post a Smile on a Sick Child’s Face’ by the sending of cards, letters, emails and little gifts to seriously ill children and their siblings in the UK.
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Make a Syringe Driver Bag! Several hospices and the NHS give out hand-made bags to patients who are receiving constant pain medication and therefore, need to carry syringe drivers. The shoulder bags mean that the patient can carry the device around with them in a discreet way so that they are able to continue with their day-to-day activities.
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Take part in our Letters against Loneliness student-led project to help combat loneliness. As a volunteer on this project you would write lettters to elderly people in the local community who are socially isolated.
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The Crisis Project is a campaign to raise awareness and take action, harnessing the power of social media. One of their projects provides volunteers the opportunity to write letters to key workers in the NHS. By signing up you can be paired up with a key worker to write a bespoke letter to.
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Local Virtual/Telephone Opportunities
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Cheshire CDT (Changing Lives Together)
Buddy or Befriender
Due to the current situation with Covid 19 (Coronavirus) CCDT are offering a Telephone Befriending Service to all of their clients.
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Age UK Cheshire
Telephone Befriending Volunteer
The Age UK Cheshire Telephone Befriending is a telephone befriending service that operates across the whole of Cheshire. The service is for people who are over 50 and are experiencing loneliness or isolation and would like regular companionship through a weekly phonecall.
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JobSense (Centre of sign, sight, sound)
Admin Support
To provide admin support to the JobSense team who support participants who are experiencing sight loss.
This role is virtual and volunteers are based at home.
Responsibilities include: General admin tasks. Taking minutes during meetings, Typing up notes during participant meetings, Filing, Photocopying and creating participant packs, Managing diaries and booking appointments, Data entry, Social Media (ie updating social media sites) Marking work/workbooks, Any other relevant duties
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JobSense (Centre of sign, sight, sound)
Information Volunteer
Purpose of role: To provide information delivery and promotional support to the JobSense team.
Due to Covid this role is being carried out remotely. Volunteers are expected to work from home and attend virtual networking meetings, events and distribute information to relevant organisations to promote JobSense team who support participants who are experiencing sight loss.
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Making Space
Telephone and Virtual Befriender
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, a lot of the groups that we usually run to reduce social isolation are unable to take place. There are a number of people who are feeling isolated and would benefit from having someone to chat to giving them something to look forward to and supporting their mental health.
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Snow Angel CIC
Telephone Befriending
This involves calling an older person usually on a weekly basis for a chat and we provide guidelines on positive conversations during the pandemic. Since March we have had an increase in younger volunteers and they have all had positive experiences making connections with the older generation. They have said that they have made new friends and that it has had a positive impact on their mental health.
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YSS
YSS TARGETED EARLY HELP FAMILY TELEPHONE BEFRIENDER, SHROPSHIRE
Support will involve phoning or contacting via WhatsApp video or similar on a weekly basis. This might be short term, for a few weeks, or much longer depending on the needs of the service user. You would need to be able to commit to this regular contact. Contact can be arranged at any time of day to suit you and the service user.
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