 Join Action for Insects today to take practical, positive action in your own home and garden to help insects |
 Anti Slavery Manuscripts need your help to turn hand written correspondence into texts that can more easily be read and researched |
 Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low vision people with volunteers for visual assistance through video calls. |
 Get your supermarket to sign up to "The Better Chicken Commitment"
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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. |
 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 Programmer to support changing lives around the world. |
 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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 During the next few weeks, we want to encourage you to write letters to local care homes to help reduce loneliness at this uncertain time. Email volunteering@chester.ac.uk for a contact to write to! |
 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. |
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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 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. |
 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. |
 Lovers of language and literature, this is the place 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. |
 This 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. |
 Covid Mutual Aid UK is a group of volunteers supporting local community groups organising mutual aid throughout the covid-19 outbreak in the UK. They focus on providing resources and connecting people to their nearest local groups, willing volunteers and those in need. |
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Join the University of Chester Peer Mentoring community! As a Peer Mentor you would support new students, answering queries they may have about the student experience and signposting to services. Online training options are available and contact between mentors and mentees can take place online.
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Rainbow Biz support adults with learning differences and disabilities. At the moment, they are unable to continue with their face-to-face support, so have set up weekly ‘Zoom’ for their members. They are looking for volunteers to run virtual activities to keep their members active! Do you havea skill or a talent you could utilise to help with this? It could be a drawing class, music, singing, a quiz…  |
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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Due to the current situation with Covid 19 (Coronavirus) CCDT are offering a Telephone Befriending Service to all of their clients.  |