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. |
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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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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 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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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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