No Money? Donate Time and Skills to Charities

Most small local charities need volunteers, from helping out at shelters to building/decorating work. Or use your graphic design or photography skills to help promote and drive fundraising.

Photographer Sophie Gamand uses her photographic skills (above) to snap animals in shelters, ready for adoption drives.

• Got building skills (or leftover building materials?) Donate them (or help out) at local animal shelters, or even animal shelters in Eastern Europe, that desperately need kennels and volunteer builders.
• Techy person? Use your skills to help design websites or fundraising social media campaigns. Or add donation buttons for easy giving.
• Provide pro bono consultancy services, if you have legal knowledge. To help charities get their finances and legal info in place.
• If you’re good at copywriting, write grant bids or design marketing brochures, or even edit promotional videos.
• If you speak another language,  translate documents to take campaigns worldwide.
• Mentoring: If you’re an expert in something, then help to train others. This could be charity fundraising to public speaking, to sharing knowledge that could help other charity volunteers.