Building Repairs
Hoxton Trust are looking for handy-people who can undertake general repairs to their building on Hoxton Street on an ad-hoc basis.
Let us know if you could help.
Research Job
LCRN offer a range of training opportunities and consultancy packages to organisations and are looking for someone who can help them research potential new contacts who might benefit from these services.
The job will involve researching relevant organisations and the key contact within them and drawing this up into a new contacts list.
This could be carried out from the LCRN offices near Old Street, or remotely.
Singing Lessons
I enjoy singing and sing regularly, but have never had any lessons. I'm particularly interested in working on my breathing.
If anyone could offer me a few lessons to help me refine my technique, that would be great!
SEO Rating Help
Hackney Downs Studios are looking for someone to help them boost their SEO rating. Get in touch if you could help.
WordPress Help
Hackney Downs Studios would like some help with WordPress, specifically some training on how to customise it themselves.
Advice: Starting a pop-up restaurant/bar
Organic Spirit offer locally sourced, organic and fair trade catering for all private and corporate events for 6-600 guests including weddings, dinner parties, openings, annual events and product launches, as well as cocktail tuition.
They are exploring the possibility of setting up a pop-up restaurant or cocktail bar and would like some advice on how to go about it, preferably from someone who’s done it before.
Find out more about what they do here: http://www.organicspirit.co.uk/
VAT/Tax Advice
Nico runs his own business ABC Coffee and needs someone to help explain how to organise his tax and VAT etc.
If you could give an hour or two to take him through this, get in touch.
Business Planning Support
Karina is looking for support with business planning for her social enterprise, The Olivier Foundation. She is currently planning and fundraising for her pilot. Get in touch if you could offer some time to help Karina develop and refine her plans.
The Olivier Foundation is a social enterprise that tackles inequalities in education, child poverty and the underachievement of students in disadvantaged areas around the UK. We achieve this by our unique scholarship programme in schools with high percentages of less-privileged students. Led by by outstanding Masters and PhD students who deliver a high quality seven-month academic and personal development programme for talented pupils, where our students receive intensive weekly 1-1 academic support, monthly private mentoring by an Oxbridge student and elite coaching by a top professional in a leading industry, to improve their academic attainment and develop their personal and social skills to help them secure places at top universities and professions.
Swimming Buddy
John's looking for someone to help push his wheelchair to London Fields Lido (where, if they come with him, they get to swim for free!)
French Lessons
Pinar is looking for someone who could offer her French lessons.
Business Card Design
The New Hanbury Project is s a centre for personal development and training, which helps people build up their self-confidence, learn useful and practical life skills, become involved in voluntary work, go on training courses and gain employment opportunities.
They’ve recently started a new project ‘Restoration Station’, where their members learn carpentry and upholstery skills and restore old furniture to create beautiful new pieces which are sold locally and online.
They’re looking for a graphic designer to help them design some business cards to promote the business.
Help TWTB at Shoreditch Festival
Timber Wharf Time Bank will be at Shoreditch Trust's Shoreditch Festival on July 13th and 14th.
Shoreditch Festvial brings communities together on Hoxton Street through engagement with imaginative cultural performancesand experiences in one of Shoreditch's most historic locations.
We're looking for time bank members who'd like to earn some credits by helping us out on our time bank stall, talking to people about the time bank and signing up new members and maybe even demonstrating some skill sharing and time bank trading too!
If you could do a 3 hour shift on the stall in return for time credits, or if you have creative ideas about how we could demonstrate the time bank, let us know!
Photography
Inbox Translation are a start-up translation agency, and need some professional photography for their website and marketing materials.
Space for Pop-Up Bar/Restaurant
Organic Spirit offer locally sourced, organic and fair trade catering for all private and corporate events for 6-600 guests including weddings, dinner parties, openings, annual events and product launches, as well as cocktail tuition.
They are exploring the possibility of setting up a pop-up restaurant or cocktail bar and are looking for a suitable space, either as a one-off or for more regular events. Do you have or know of an interesting space that could be suitable? Let us know!
Find out more about what they do here: http://www.organicspirit.co.uk/
Transcribers Needed
Hoxton Hall need helpers to transcribe recordings of people’s memories of the Hall, to help them build up their archive of oral histories.
Transcribers will need to commit to transcribing at least one full oral history. This will take 3 – 4 hours on average, depending on your typing speed. The transcription can be done at Hoxton Hall or in your own home.