Digital Inclusion Wales

Help From Home is a Cardiff, UK based volunteer driven, unincorporated association that runs a free community service to promote and encourage participation in easy, no commitment, home based, microvolunteering opportunities where a spare 10 seconds to 30 minutes is all that is needed to help out worthy causes - from anywhere in the world, even in your own pyjamas! Microvolunteering is most closely associated with online actions.

As our name suggests, we primarily promote microvolunteering as home based, but over time have developed various other ongoing microvolunteering projects, including:

Help From School - encouraging students to change the world without leaving their classroom as part of a citizenship course
Help From Work - encouraging people to volunteer during their lunchbreak, without leaving their office environment
Help From Seniors - encouraging senior citizens to volunteer without getting out of their armchair
Help From Holiday - encouraging people to think about responsible tourism by volunteering before, during or after their holiday

Help From Home was set up in December, 2008 to address the problem that the UK voluntary sector was not promoting such microvolunteering actions at the time. It was also set up to convey the notion that people could volunteer on the go, on demand and on their own terms - even in their pyjamas if they wanted to! It is now being promoted by the UK government, the main volunteering bodies in England and Wales, as well as just under 60 UK high street volunteer centres, amongst many other prominent organisations.

Help From Home is considered to have the largest known directory of current active non-skilled microvolunteering opportunities, with over 800 as of May, 2012. Activities include:
- searching for Genghis Khan's tomb
- discovering galaxies
- helping to cure diseases
- saving rainforests
- making sick children smile
- transcribing papyri
etc, etc

So, if you have a few minutes to spare or are just bored of watching the telly, consider some of the things you could do online to help others in those spare few moments you have. As the website's motto says, you really can 'Change the world in just your pyjamas'!