9 rewarding ways to help your local community in 2020

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9 rewarding ways to help your local community in 2020
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Because it really is cool to be kind.

, your cash or even your belongings to directly help people in your local community. From talking to your aged neighbour, to volunteering at a food bank or raising money for your local women’s refuge centre, there are plenty of ways to get stuck in.Small charities are the backbone of local communities and they make changes in real and meaningful ways, often with little resources.

If you want to volunteer on a more regular basis, we’ve rounded up nine ways in which you can help to make a real difference in 2020. Simply scroll down to be inspired to make a change.Refuge supports women who experience violence and abuse, providing a safe space to stay, one-on-one counselling and phone advice. Help by donating cash to buy emergency parcels filled with basic necessities, or fundraise by hosting a coffee morning, pub quiz or raffle at work.

Food banks also accept essential non-food items, such as toiletries and hygiene products. The charity needs 20,000 volunteers to staff all its food banks, so is always grateful for people who can spare time as well as donating food.The Felix Project collects fresh food from supermarkets, wholesalers, farms, restaurants and delis that can no longer be sold.

London-based, the charity could not function without its volunteers and whether you can spare a couple of hours, days or weeks a month, they need people to drive delivery vans, cycle around London distributing food and help in their food-sorting depots. Volunteer work UK: The Felix Project collects fresh food from supermarkets, wholesalers, farms, restaurants and delis and gives it to schools and charities.The Keep Our NHS Public movement is a way for anyone worried about the privatisation of the NHS to contribute and make a difference. The initiative is the largest campaign in the UK and has hundreds of activists working tirelessly in their communities to save hospitals from closure.

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