Often when you look back on life, things you’ve done to help other people seem poignant, so how about helping people more needier then you, people that have no warm home to go back to at the end of the day.

 In some areas groups like the Salvation Army go on soup runs to help the homeless giving them warm drinks, soup and food and extra clothes so that they can keep warm. They are always grateful for more volunteers to help make the soup and to give everything out. It’s also so memorable to meet some of these people and talk to them about their experiences.

There are a lot of people out there who really love their gardens. Sometimes though it gets a bit too much for them to handle and sometimes they cannot get down to the ground to do the weeding and keep the garden looking as lovely as it had once been. Sometimes these people may not have family or friends that are able to help them out, and this can be a stressful time not being able to maintain their garden.

Why not do a bit of good in your community. You could design a poster or some flyers, where people that cannot afford to pay for a gardener and are unable to do their own gardening can contact you. A few hours tidying up a garden, doing some trimming and getting rid of the weeds, mowing the lawn, could make so much difference to someone, giving them a beautiful garden that they can admire once more!

Tea Dances happen in a lot of areas, where the elderly get together for a dance and sometimes tea and cakes during the interval. Why not go along volunteer and see what you think, you’d be surprised how much you enjoy it! The people are lovely, and they love to dance with the younger people and show them how it’s done! You’ll learn a lot from the waltz and quickstep to sequence and square dancing!