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Do something good for Twixtmas - in your pyjamas!

A major drive to get people to do five good things to change the world during the Twixtmas break – the five day holiday period between the Christmas and New Year holidays – is being launched by two campaign groups – with ideas which can be done in just 5 seconds, without leaving your home, or even getting out of your pyjamas! Help From Home, which celebrates its first birthday during Twixtmas, has over 500 opportunities to enable you to help others or raise funds for charity through its web site www.helpfromhome.org. It provides free information on mini-volunteering opportunities that cost nothing, and are easy to do in seconds or minutes. It is linking up with the Twixtmas campaign which is encouraging people to take advantage of the five day holiday period to do five things to make their world a better place through its website www.twixtmas.com. Both campaigns are avowedly non-commercial and non-profit making. Typical easy to do, no cost ideas include feeding a starving person for free with a simple click of the mouse, installing free software to help fight cancer with your pc, as well as saving the rainforests just by using a search engine, as well as a host of ideas for the Twixtmas period to get in touch with old friends, or plan to make the most of your year ahead. “People complain about not having enough time, and yet this is the season for goodwill, so combining the opportunities of making it easy for people to micro volunteer and take advantage of the time available during Twixtmas seemed a great partnership.” said Mike Bright founder of Help From Home. “A good deed really is just a mouse click away”. Mike Bright got the idea for Help From Home after he realised there were plenty of charity and volunteer opportunities out there, but were scattered all over the web and not included on any volunteer portal sites. Now, there are over 500 opportunities on the website where a person does not even have to leave their house to do a good deed. Creativity expert Andy Green was similarly inspired to launch the Twixtmas campaign after hearing one moan too many from someone complaining about the prospect of being bored during the festive holiday period. A great believer in turning negative opportunities into positive ones, Andy came up with the idea of making the period a time for celebration and thinking, to do things for other people, as well reflect on making your own life richer. The web site www.twixtmas.com offers the chance to send a Twixtmas e mail greeting, has a downloadable pledge form to list your five good deeds, along with ideas and advice from leading experts. Anyone wanting to do good this Twixtmas can visit either www.helpfromhome.org or www.twixtmas.com ENDS