Volunteer!

Volunteering can help boosts our feel good factor Volunteering can motivate us out of our comfort zone It can help us gain confidence socially

One of the best ways to get active in the animal world is to volunteer.  Animal charities need all sorts of help - some of it hands on, some of it behind the scenes, so if you're the sort of person who is worried you'll be upset by helping homeless animals, don't worry - there will be things you can do to get active for animals without actually doing the hands on stuff.

Here are some ways to volunteer your time & help...

• Foster a pet. 
• Help with dog walking
• Volunteer your help abroad on a volunteer holiday
• Do a charity challenge to help with fund raising
• Many countryside charities need volunteers to help with surveys e.g. the Big Garden Birdwatch (held every January by the RSPB) or the survey organised by the National Amphibean & Reptile Recording Scheme.
• Conservation volunteers work in all sorts of places around the world - ethical travel directory Responsible Travel has many holidays where you can volunteer
• Help local animal charities, such as Cats Protection
• Give up some time on holiday to help a local animal charity in the area where you're staying - just contact them and find out if you can lend a paw
• Be willing to change your lifestyle & be more active e.g. walk instead of driving to help polar bears
• Help countryside charities to protect the habitat of the wildlife living there
• Adopt a beach & volunteer to help keep it clean of litter to care for marine life
• Suggest that your employee gets involved in some employee volunteering for a nature reserve or animal charity, like Responsible Travel staff did for the Lewes nature reserve in Sussex
• Become a member of your favourite animal charity.  Many animals charities have memberships you can take up - annual or life, adult or child, family, indiviidual etc, e.g. the RSPB, and many have memberships for young people such as the PDSA 
• Many animals charities offer the opportunity to adopt an animal as a gift for someone. (You don't actually have the animal at home.)
• Offer specialist skills & experience you have which charities may well need

Pet charities	Countryside animal charities	Working animal charities	Wildlife charities
Marine conservation charities	Animals help us charities*	Worldwide charities	Charities in Europe**

 

   

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