Bigger Ways To Help
Sites Like This One
Other people working on the same idea: making everyday kindness easier to start.
Doing Good Together (opens in a new tab)
Kindness and volunteering ideas built for families, with lots for doing good alongside kids. US-based, but most ideas travel well.
DoSomething (opens in a new tab)
Campaigns and practical actions for young people who want to change something in their community. Mostly US, aimed at 13–25s.
Volunteering
When you're ready to give regular time, these make it much easier to find something that fits.
Do-it (opens in a new tab)
The UK's big volunteering database. Put in your postcode and browse what local groups and charities actually need.
Reach Volunteering (opens in a new tab)
Skills-based volunteering for UK charities. Handy if you'd rather offer what you do at work than a Saturday morning.
Idealist (opens in a new tab)
Volunteer roles, internships and jobs at social-impact organisations, mostly US-based. Now also home to what was VolunteerMatch.
Giving Well
I don't pick charities myself. These independent evaluators do the hard research on where money goes furthest.
GiveWell (opens in a new tab)
Deep, public research into global health and poverty charities, with clear explanations of why each one makes the cut.
Giving Green (opens in a new tab)
Evidence-based recommendations for climate giving, and more recently biodiversity too. Updated every year.
Giving What We Can (opens in a new tab)
A friendly starting point for giving more thoughtfully, pulling together recommendations from several evaluators in one place.
The Life You Can Save (opens in a new tab)
A short, approachable list of vetted charities working on extreme poverty, plus a free book on why it matters.
Newsletters Worth Reading
A few inboxes that leave me a bit more hopeful (and a bit more curious) than before I opened them.
Reasons to be Cheerful (opens in a new tab)
Weekly solutions journalism about problems people are actually solving. Their monthly Spark email focuses on how to get involved.
Dense Discovery (opens in a new tab)
A beautifully put-together weekly on design, tech, sustainability and living more considerately. Human-curated every issue.
Recomendo (opens in a new tab)
Six tiny recommendations every Sunday morning. Not about generosity, but generous in spirit, and the most reliably good email I get.
Positive News (opens in a new tab)
UK-based constructive journalism about what's going right, from climate to community. A good antidote to doomscrolling.
Good News Network (opens in a new tab)
A long-running daily dose of good news from around the world. Light, quick and reliably uplifting.
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Links last checked October 2026
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