What communities can do
- create and develop community resources
- Local environmental projects
- partnership working
- alliances and coalitions
- Advocate expenses for volunteers, so that no-one should be out of pocket from volunteering, and it isn't something just for those that can afford it
- Make a gift of your time as a Christmas, birthday or other present to someone (for example some kind of volunteering toward a particular cause they may be passionate about)
Why it matters
Community and voluntary action can contribute to resilient, thriving, empowered and unique communties.
Resources
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- Help From Home website enabling Micro-volunteering W, easy home based volunteering actions
Quotes
"We are social creatures, our behaviours are shaped and constrained by social norms and expectations. Negotiating change is best pursued at the level of groups and communities. Social support is particularly vital in breaking habits, and in devising new social norms and more sustainable patterns of consumption. Government can play a vital role in nurturing and supporting community based social change." Professor Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Communities online
- Community currencies, sustainable community action
- Community involvement
- Community safety
- Localism
- Rural sustainability
- Sharing
- Social inclusion
- Urban sustainability
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Local community, Micro-volunteering
External links
- Help Exchange (HelpX)
- Workaway.info one of three international organizations that enable travelers willing to work as volunteers to contact hosts (who can be individuals, families or groups) wanting help with their projects or activities. Similar to HelpX and Volunteers Base, volunteers or 'workawayers', are expected to contribute a pre-agreed amount of time per day in exchange for lodging and food provided by their host. W
References
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