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Barrier: lack of access to books

Problem barrier creates: lack of access to books may prevent someone from reading for fun and increasing their literacy skills​

Solution: small community library box where people can leave books and take out books​

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Learn more at: https://littlefreelibrary.org/

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Barrier: LGBTQ+ individuals facing isolation and/or limited access to safe community spaces.

Problem barrier creates: may struggle to find spaces for connection and lack access to craft supplies and resources.

Solution: welcoming queer craft club where people can learn new skills, access craft resources they may not otherwise be able to afford (Pay What You Can Tickets), and develop meaningful connections within a supportive community.

Learn more at: https://linktr.ee/queercraftlondon

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Barrier: low confidence and/or disrupted education​

Problem barrier creates: may be struggling with essential subjects such as mathematics which may impact university and work opportunities​

Solution: a math study group where older students can support younger students with their math homework​

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Learn more at: https://www.funkeymaths.com/schools/peer-mentoring/

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Barrier: Social isolation and lack of access to creative opportunities in hard-to-reach communities.

Problem barrier creates: Young people may feel unseen and unheard, leading to low self-esteem, mental health challenges, and increased vulnerability to exploitation or crime.

Solution: Mobile multimedia bus workshops that bring music and creative arts directly to communities, providing a safe space where young people can express themselves, build confidence, and develop musical skills with support from professional musicians.

Learn more: https://www.yuaf.org/

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Barrier: Limited mobility and lack of access to outdoor activities for people with disabilities, health conditions, and elderly people.

Problem barrier creates: People with mobility challenges often become isolated and miss out on the mental and physical health benefits of being outdoors, leading to reduced quality of life and increased loneliness.

Solution: Charity providing supported cycle experiences using adaptive electric trikes. Trained volunteers collect participants from care homes and take them on rides around Brighton's community spaces.

Learn more at: https://www.pedalpeople.org.uk/

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How to get started with a project in your community

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Step 1: Get people together

Start by getting a group of like-minded people together who can share the work - a committee or working group. Many amazing community projects have started with a get-together in a pub, coffee shop or someone's living room.

Get to know each other
Understand what each person brings to the table (find out more about undertaking a skills audit), and their motivation for getting involved. Spend a bit of time of time understanding each other's motivations and learning about each other's skills.
Get organised
You will find it easier if you agree who is leading each meeting and who takes notes and shares them everyone at the end of each meeting. Concentrate on action points and who agreed to do what and by when. Switch round the responsibilities so no one feels overburdened.
Choose a name and purpose
You will need to use these once you start consulting with your community and recruiting more people to get involved. Here are some examples of purpose or 'mission' statements:

We want to bring our community together and make the best use of all the assets and resources within our neighbourhood

We want to save a building and open it up to be used by our community

We want to develop a Neighbourhood Plan which gives us more power over land use planning in our community

We want to improve our neighbourhood through working together to develop new services which benefit everyone in our community, especially older people.

You have now formed a community group and you can begin planning to take action to improve your community.

Step 2: Identify and listen to your community

How well do you know your community? How is your community defined and what do they care about?

Deciding on the boundaries
Where is your community located? If you live in a small village or town, this might be easy to identify. But if you live in a big city, it can be much harder. Are you defined by a political boundary, like a local ward? Or a major road or river? Or is your community defined by where people live, shop and socialise? This is up to your group to determine.

One thing to consider is how big a community can you realistically serve or engage with your project. An area of over 3,000 households or 10,000 people is challenging to reach even if your communication is good.

Neighbourhood Planning has developed guidance around defining your local area, which is useful to look at when considering boundaries.
Listening to your community
The best way to find out what people in your community think, is to get out and ask people directly through activities like door knocking, canvassing at local events, information booths on high streets and feedback sessions.

Community organising, engagement and consulting are all approaches you can use to listen to your community. Set a target for the number or proportion of people you want to reach in your community.

These are the main principles of community engagement to consider.

Once you have completed your first phase of listening, you will have found more people who want to get involved. Make sure you invite them to join the team or steering committee. The more help you have for the work to come, the better!
Secondary data
Now you have a base of information and views from your community, you can add to this with 'secondary data': information and research results that have already been published by others. Information is increasingly available online from central government, your local authority and other public organisations. Depending on what sort of community project you are planning, here are some suggestions for the kind of data you might find helpful:

The Local Plan - you can find this by looking on your local planning authority website

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) website has a postcode search so that you can find detailed census information about your area, including demographics, education, housing and crime data.

For information about activities and project already going on in your community:

Ask around

Search the internet and social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter

Talk to your local newspaper or radio

Talk to local councillors and any local authority staff who work in your area.

Step 3: Setting up an organisation

Not all community initiatives need to be a formal organisation, but as you progress as a community organisation, there may come a time when you need to be formally recognised and legally constituted.

There are several types of organisations that you can investigate to suit the requirements and needs of your community project. Some smaller projects may not need a formal structure, but other larger projects will require an incorporated legal structure to apply for finance or undertake projects such as Community Asset Transfer.
The three main types of organisations

Groups: Simple projects and community events can be run by a group of individuals without any formal structure. Read more about Groups here

Constituted group: Adopting a constitution gives a group a set of rules on what they will do and how they will operate. Read more about Constituted groups here

Incorporated organisations: If you are taking over a community asset or local service, or starting a community enterprise which is based on trading and will involve managing significant amounts of money, employing staff and entering into contracts, then adopting an incorporated organisational form is highly recommended. Read more about Incorporated organisations here

Social and community enterprise: Social or community enterprises are business types, not legal entities in their own right.

You can also have the additional status of:

Charitable: Depending on your organisation's purpose, you can apply to have the legal status of charitable.

Read more about types of legal organisations here.

You shouldn't choose your legal structure until you have done some planning in Step 3: Make a Plan. At the very least, you need to know the answer to these questions before you choose a legal structure:

1. Who is going to 'own' and manage your organisation?

2. How do you plan to fund your organisation?

3. What is your business model?

4. What will you do with any profit you make?

5. Who is going to benefit from your activities?

6. Do you need charitable status?

7. Do you plan to own a building or land?

8. Do you plan to take out a loan or a mortgage?

9. Do you want to raise money through donations and fundraising?

10. Or do you want to sell shares in your business?

11. Do any members or Directors want to be paid?

12. Do you want a democratic, co-operative structure or something more hierarchical?

13. Do you want a large membership which has a say in the running of the organisation or do you want to restrict control and ownership to just a small number of people?

14. What is the level of risks to member of the Board and how much protection do they need as individuals?

Read more about types of organisational structure here.
Where can I get some help?
There are some good online tools which can help you choose your legal structure.

It may be helpful to get advice and support from a specialist or a legal advisor before setting up your new company. Your local Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) will be able to help with writing a governing document. Find your nearest CVS here.

Once you have formally registered your new organisation with the appropriate regulator (Companies House, Financial Services Authority or Charity Commission) and achieved Charity status if required, you are ready to start running your organisation.

Your Directors and /or Trustees are legally responsible for the proper operation and management of the organisation. There are a number of Codes of Governance available to help Directors to achieve the purpose for which the organisation has been set up.

For more information, see:

Step 4: Decide what resources you need

It's important to have a clear plan on how you intend to run your organisation in order to sustain its operation in the future. One of the key questions to be answered is how you expect to generate an income e.g. donations, grants, selling products and services? This is what we call the business model.

Your business plan will help clarify your project idea and define your long-term objectives. It provides a blueprint for running your organisation and a series of benchmarks to check your progress against. It is also vital for convincing your bank, your community and any potential investors to support you.
Choosing a business model
As a community organisation or charity you may not even think of yourself as a business, but every community business has the same elements as a normal business - customers, products and services, finance, marketing and profit. The key difference is that any profit generated is for social and community benefit, not individual gain. However you still need to generate profit (or 'surpluses') to return to the business or to spend for community benefit.

In order to write a convincing business plan, you need to understand and articulate your business model and make sure it is reflected throughout your plan. Your business model is the plan for the successful operation of the business, identifying sources of revenue, the intended customer base, products and details of financing.

Business models for community businesses tend to be more complicated than for conventional businesses. You will most likely have a mix of income including fees and charges, sale of services, donations and possibly contracts with public sector bodies. Your business model may be based on cross-subsidising one part of the business to support another, such as using income from pitch hire to subsidise coaching for children, or having differential hire rates for local residents, clubs and commercial businesses.

Another complication for community business planning is that the customer doesn't always pay - so you may have users such as children or older people for example, where the service is paid for by a donor or a public sector client rather than directly by the user.

Every community business has a different business model. What matters is that you are clear about yours and that the rest of your business plan reflects this in terms of staffing, financial projections, governance, etc.

Part of the business model for every community business is its 'social return' i.e. its benefit to the community, so your business model also needs to show who benefits and how. If you are taking on an Asset Transfer, the Local Authority owner of the asset will be scrutinising your business plan to see that you have properly costed and planned for continuing to generate a social return into the future.
Business Plans
A good way to start your business planning is by using Locality's Balanced Scorecard to create an overview of your business plan on one page. The Balanced Scorecard is a simple business tool, designed to capture on one page various aspects of the organisation - business model, organisational development, financial return and social return - setting out in each case where the organisation is now and where it wants to be soon (e.g. two years time) and later (e.g. five years time).

There are many other business plan templates and guides available, for example, Unltd's information on putting together a business plan.

Here are the main sections we would expect to see in a business plan:

About the organisation and/or people behind the business

Mission/purpose of business and how you intend to achieve it

Product/service, pricing and projected sales/outputs

The market, the competition, the operating environment

Risk analysis

Resource needs and business operations

Income & Costs projections

Funding and finance needs

Cashflow forecast.

Costs and Income
Forecasting your future costs and income is the core of your business plan. You will need income and spending projections and cash flow projections for at least three years.

Read more about forecasting here.
Cash Flow
Cash flow is the way in which money flows in and out of your bank account.

When the capital, revenue costs and income have been projected and show that income exceeds costs, it is important that these are put into a cash flow for the first years of the project and that the timing and assumptions about timing for income in the cash flow are clearly explained and presented. Businesses often failure due to problems of cash flow rather than their overall profitability.

This resource also includes an example of a cashflow forecast.
Whole life costing for assets
Whole Life Costing is the systematic consideration of all relevant costs and revenues associated with an asset. Typically, a surveyor estimates over a 20-25 year period what it will cost to operate, repair, replace and renew building or landscape elements.

These costs are then given a current value in order that the owner can make decisions about and plan investment in the asset. It involves making judgements about which elements (windows, doors, etc.) will need replacing or repairing and what kind of cyclical maintenance (like decoration) will be required.

Step 5: Secure investment

Successful fundraising happens through good planning and investing time and energy in the process. Generally speaking, prospective funders (including your own members) will be looking for some or all of these:

Trustworthiness & credibility of key people

A compelling vision

A proven track record

An appropriate legal structure

A thorough feasibility study

A business plan

Support of partner organisations (which themselves have credibility)

Visible community support

A well-written pitch.

The finance you can access depends on the legal structure of the organisation, the project being financed and when and how much funding is required. This table details the funding options for different legal structures.

For example, only charities can apply for some charitable grants and there are restrictions to how much charities can generate income through sales of products and services which aren't 'on mission'.
Types of finance
When raising investment for starting or growing community projects, there are two main types of funding streams you can consider:

Non-repayable:

Grants (from government or charitable trusts)

Donations (from individuals and philanthropists)

Crowdfunding (online fundraising from lots of donors)

Repayable:

Bank loans & mortgages (from commercial & specialist banks)

Equity (e.g. Community Shares)

Social investment (a range of repayable finance from specialist social investors who expect a social & financial 'return').

'Blended finance' is a combination of the different finance and funding you need to reach your fundraising targets and is the reality for most community businesses. Read more about Blended finance here.

What type of funding or finance you can access depends on the type of project, your legal structure, your business model and the makeup of your community. It also depends on the stage of your project, your organisation or business.

For example, if you only need short term funding whilst you wait for a grant to be paid, you may need a bridging loan. To take on new premises for expansion you might secure a mortgage. For a very risky new business idea, you might need to crowdfund finance from friends and family or sell shares to your local community.
Getting investment ready
There are steps to take to ensure that your organisation is ready to take on an investment. This includes having strong leadership and governance, a good business plan, a market for your product or service and the right resources in your organisation to launch or grow your project or enterprise.

There are many tools available to help you get investment ready:

Locality's Community Enterprise Checker: an online tool that assesses your organisation by asking a series of questions about your business, systems, people and finances.

Big Potential: an investment readiness fund that helps organisations prepare to apply for equity or loan finance. This BIG Lottery Fund grant fund will deliver approximately £10m of grant funding over three years to eligible VCSE organisations with the aim of improving the sustainability, capacity and scale of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in order that they may deliver greater social impact.

UnLtd offer financial support and mentoring for social entrepreneurs at various stages of their journey through an awards programme.

The School for Social Entrepreneurs runs a range of courses covering topics such as starting a social enterprise, scaling, replication, and moving an existing charity towards a social enterprise model.

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Community service is exactly what it sounds like: services that you do to benefit your community. If that sounds a little broad, it's because it is -- community service can take a lot of different forms since there's SO much you can do to help folks out in your area.

But that might leave you wondering where to start. (Spoiler alert: this is where you start!) We've put together a list of community service project ideas, organized by what you'll be doing. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often spoke of a Beloved Community--one that requires acts of service based on justice and equal opportunities.

Whether that's collecting, teaching, volunteering, or something else, you should be able to find something to inspire you to get out there and do.

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Need help coming up with a community service idea that builds relationships and exposure for your nonprofit? Don't worry-we're here to help. The good news is there are so many different opportunities available.

But the best community service ideas don't need to be a game changer or brand new-just meaningful, engaging, and relevant to your nonprofit. People to give back to their local community . They just need a nonprofit (like yours) to provide them with the right opportunity.

Consider this article your jumping-off point. Below, we've compiled over 50 community service project ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Take a look through the possibilities and see what stands out. And don't be afraid to mix and match ideas or completely deviate from something we've outlined below-there's no one-size-fits-all way to go about community service.
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What Makes a Great Service Project Idea?

Before we start looking through service project ideas, let's talk about what separates good ideas from great ones.

Passion: Do something meaningful to you. You may see a timely need in your community or an opportunity to make a difference with something close to your donors' hearts.

Relevancy: The key to understanding how to retain volunteers is knowing how to make the service project relevant to your nonprofit's mission. You and your staff already know the communities you serve and how many legs your work has, so use that to continue the impact through your volunteer efforts. If your organization focuses on environmentalism, teaching music lessons at your local day care might not align.

Need: Identify genuine needs. No community is perfect-there are people, businesses, and causes that require time, love, and care. Find them.

Organization: the who, what, where, when, and how behind your project. Establish clear lines of communication and keep logistics neat and tidy.

People: Establish a team dedicated to your specific project, aside from their day jobs at your organization. Find leaders, thinkers, planners, and doers.

Timing: Look for the best time to make it happen. A service project on Tuesday at 10 a.m. might not work for most of your busy volunteers, but what if you moved the project to Saturday at 10 a.m.?

54 Creative Community Service Ideas

12 Physical Labor Community Service Ideas

1. Clean Up the Park

Pick up trash at your local park, river, or recreational area. While you're at it, look for other future service opportunities. For example, you might notice a broken bench or weathered playground equipment. Many organizations find these activities successful around Earth Day. What better way to collect Earth Day donations than by encouraging volunteers to get involved in caring for the community in which they are a part of?

2. Rake Leaves

Visit someone or a community center that could really use help raking leaves. You can help clean up their yards, clear snow from driveways in the winter, and grow grass in the spring.

3. Build a Shed

Parks, churches, schools, and even single-family homes might need a shed to store equipment. If you have a handyperson on your crew, get their help to build a simple shelter for storing outdoor belongings. You might even go the extra mile and personalize it with a fresh paint job or (better yet) a mural.

4. Plant Trees and Flowers

A famous Chinese proverb says: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Planting trees, flowers, and shrubs make the neighborhood look better and could benefit your local community for years.

Notice an overgrown yard or community area? Offer to mow the grass. This improves the look and feel of the entire community and prevents critters from nesting in places they shouldn't.

6. Paint Old Buildings

It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do. Volunteer a touch-up paint job on homes or community buildings in need.

7. Install Wheelchair Ramps

Know of a family with a recent disability? Offer to install a wheelchair ramp to make entering their home more wheelchair accessible.

8. Host a Car Wash

Provide free car washes to anyone in the community. While you're at it, raise awareness. For example, you might do the car wash at your local animal shelter.

9. Provide Rides

Host rides every other week (or month) to families (or individuals) in need. For example, you might take a parent to the grocery store or give rides to someone traveling across town to their doctor's appointment.

10. Repair Benches and Fences

Notice benches giving people splinters? Are fences in need of repair? Get out your tool belt and fix them up.

11. Go on Walks With People Who Need a Friend

Sometimes, being there for someone is the most important community service project you could ever do. Offer to go on walks with a person at a nursing home or even someone who doesn't feel safe walking alone.

12. Train for a Race With a Participant

Know someone (or a group) training for their first 5K or marathon? Go and train with them. It can be motivating and empowering to have a workout buddy, especially when aspiring athletes are new to a sport.

13 Collect and Donate Community Service Ideas

13. Host a Back-to-School Supplies Drive

Brainstorming different fundraising ideas for schools in your local community? Collect school supplies for families in need. Everything from notebooks to crayons to folders to pencils-it all counts.

14. Collect Nonperishable Foods for the Hungry

Hosting a food drive can be a great community service activity around giving holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. Donors get to clean out their pantries, and shelters get a fresh supply of canned and boxed food-everyone wins. As inflation rates fluctuate, the demand for this support is growing.

15. Start a Holiday Donation Drive for Toys

As a holiday fundraising initiative , collect toys to give to children in low-income families, so everyone gets a gift during the holiday season.

16. Provide Valentine's Day Supplies to Schools

Interested in spreading the love and hosting a Valentine's Day fundraiser ? Donate paper, stickers, scissors, and crafts to elementary schools to help the kids create Valentine's Day gifts in class or at home. You could do the same thing at a local day care or community center.

17. Create Hygiene Bags for the Homeless Community

Collect soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, and hand sanitizer to provide hygiene bags for your homeless population.

18. Gather Products for Domestic and Sexual Violence Shelters

Shelters and charities need donations, products, and volunteers to help survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Work with your local shelter to find items needed to provide visitors with a more comfortable stay.

19. Donate Blood or Plasma

Find volunteers to donate blood or plasma regularly. It doesn't have to be anything too formal, but a simple reminder can go a long way to letting your community know how to give back.

20. Organize a Blood Drive

Organizing a blood drive helps those who need blood and can lower blood pressure and the risk of heart attacks for givers.

21. Create Meal Kits for Thanksgiving Dinners

Build meal kits for your community to enjoy the harvest holiday with their families.

22. Collect Clothes for Children

Kids grow up, but parents don't always clean out right away. For example, your community members likely have bins of clothing sitting in their attics or garages. Encourage them to donate those unused clothes to people in need.

23. Build Little Free Libraries Around the Community

Little Free Libraries let your community members exchange books at multiple locations around town. Building these around the community can be an excellent resource for those who live far away from the town library.

24. Gather Art for a Nonprofit or Charity Auction

Nonprofits and charities often rely on donated goods to raise money at auctions. Find unloved art or commission volunteers to create pieces that a charity can put to good use.

25. Bake Treats for the Community

Who doesn't love cookies and brownies? Bake treats and hand them out for free downtown or at a local park or special event .

10 Teach and Educate Service Project Ideas

26. Teach English to Immigrants

Live in an area with a large immigrant population? Volunteer to teach English lessons once a week.

27. Teach Tech Skills at Retirement Homes

Older generations might want a hand learning how to operate laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Teach them basic tech skills like FaceTiming with their family or setting up a social media account.

28. Show People How to Fish

Volunteer to show your community how to fish. Gather rods for a small group and head down to the lake or river and show them the ropes. Fishing can be a great, low-cost hobby for those in your community, and those who attend your class might be able to catch and cook some tasty dinners with the newfound skill.

29. Show Homeowners Do-it-Yourself Skills

Host events where you teach basic home maintenance skills, such as weatherproofing a home, fixing a leaky faucet, and installing a new door lock to help homeowners take care of their homes.

30. Teach a Second Language to Adults

Have a volunteer willing to teach Spanish, French, German, or another language? Get them to host a once-a-week class teaching adults. While there are plenty of apps for adults to learn a second language, it's hard to beat an in-class experience.

31. Educate the Community About Sustainability

Nearly 90% of the global population wants a more sustainable and equitable world, but most don't know where to start. Host events in your community to educate the public and show them real-world skills for how they can contribute to a more sustainable society using natural resources .

32. Help People Register to Vote

Host a service project to help people register to vote. This can be especially helpful if resources aren't readily available in their language.

33. Provide IT Assistance

Everyone from your local bakery to your gym to your day care could use a little IT help from time to time. If you have an expert on your team, consider doing some basic workshops or visiting small businesses that might need a helping hand.

34. Teach a Budgeting Class

Show your community members how to stretch their income and do more with their hard-earned dollars. Your budgeting classes could be as simple as life hacks for saving money or could include more advanced financial planning advice.

35. Show People How to Start a Business

More than 40% of Americans planned to start a business in 2022. Consider doing some mentoring or providing a crash course on starting a small business to help members of your community reach their 2022 goal.

19 Places in Your Community That Need Volunteers

36. Help Out at the Animal Shelter

Have a passion for cats and dogs? Volunteer at your local animal shelter playing with animals, taking dogs on walks, and cleaning cages.

37. Organize Books at Your Local Library

Need help restocking for your community of voracious readers? Volunteer to organize books and clean up public reading areas.

38. Staff Special Events at the Park

Your park could host anything from a 10K to a fall festival. Find volunteers to staff the special event to help with parking or hand out refreshments.

39. Mentor Students

Know any high school students who might want to expand their learning beyond the classroom? For those who want to experiment with professions, connect them with a plumber, electrician, or carpenter for hands-on work or an apprenticeship.

40. Tutor Students

Volunteer to help kids with after-school classes teaching anything from math to reading.

41. Supervise After-School Programs

Help chaperone anything from school dances to basketball practice at your local recreation center.

42. Volunteer as a Coach

Consider volunteering if you know a sport that needs coaches (and even if you don't). You don't need to be a retired professional to play a big role in teaching others a new skill .

43. Assist Churches With Services

Volunteer to assist local churches in your community that might need help with lawn care, building maintenance, or picking up hymn books after church.

44. Pick Up Trash at a State or National Park

Get out in nature and preserve your parks with a community service day at your local state or national park.

45. Restock Shelves at the Food Bank

Your local food bank might not have the hands it needs to sift through donations, organize food, and restock the shelves. Find a time to help around a giving holiday when it's likely to receive higher-than-average donations.

46. Distribute Food to Homeless Shelters

After a food drive, find volunteers to drive and distribute donations to homeless shelters around your state or county.

47. Volunteer With a Political Organization

Want to support an up-and-coming politician? Offer to volunteer with their organization, helping with campaign to-dos or staffing fundraising events.

48. Usher at Your Community Theater

Show your creative community some love by staffing and ushering at your local theater.

49. Find a Buddy at a Long-term Care Facility

Make a friend in a long-term care facility, and write or find time to visit them.

50. Teach Music Lessons at a Day Care

Know a musically gifted giver willing to teach kids music? Volunteer at your day care teaching kids how to sing and read music. You could even bring a keyboard and provide private lessons.

51. Help a School as a Crossing Guard

Schools with busy streets can always use help with crossing guards. Volunteer to take the shift for a specific day of the week or week of the month.

52. Chaperone a Field Trip

See if your school needs help with chaperones. They might need additional adults for a trip across town or assistance with a bigger cross-country commitment.

53. Volunteer at Your Community Pool

Ask your local pool if they need help with lifeguards, cleaning, or maintenance.

54. Visit Children at the Hospital

Put a smile on a child's face with a special visit to the hospital.

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