Resources
Below you will find links to resources you can use for each of the sections.
Change your mind
Chapter 1 Change your thinking if you can’t change your budget
Chapter 2 Develop Your Creativity
Money Helper It might be helpful to check your budget, even if you can’t do anything about it.
Indeed Carers A useful article outlining ways of becoming more creative.
Build your resources
Chapter 3 – What have I got that is free?
Aerobics for beginners NHS
Chapter 4 – Art Box
8 minutes- individualistic but should give you lots of ideas The ART gEEK
Chapter 5 – Dressing Up Box
Sketch about family plays. Worth a watch and a laugh.The Holderness Family
Chapter 6 – Music Box
Beginner lessons for the piano, good slow introduction My Music Workshop
Guitar Lesson Kasey’s Music Method
Drum Lessons for children Easy First Drum Lesson
Going out Activities
Chapter 19 – Jumble Sales and Boot Sales
Enter your postcode to find your nearest car boot sale
Chapter 20 Travelling
Very good article with loads of simple ideas
Chapter 21 Shopping for Food
Your Local Pantry – Free and cheap food with no referral
There are independent food banks and other places you can use without a referral.
Soup kitchens serve ready to eat food without a referral.
A Community Fridge is a space that brings people together to eat, connect, learn new skills and reduce food waste. It is a site where local people can share food, this includes surplus from supermarkets, local food businesses, producers, households and gardens. Fridges are run by community groups in shared spaces such as schools, community centres and shops, their main purpose is saving fresh food from going to waste.
The Community Fridge Network is coordinated by Hubbub and it connects fridges across the UK
Their mission is to unleash the power of food and ignite long-lasting change in struggling neighbourhoods across the UK.
Their mobile food clubs make life more affordable for people on low incomes, build stronger communities and reduce food waste
We are FoodCycle, and our vision is to make food poverty, loneliness and food waste a thing of the past for every community.
We connect communities, reducing loneliness and food poverty – working with thousands of volunteers and surplus food to help everyone who needs us. By creating welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life to meet, eat and have conversations, and by offering a weekly telephone Check-in and Chat, we are supporting people’s health and mental wellbeing.
By cooking with surplus ingredients, we promote healthy, sustainable attitudes towards food and its impact on the environment, and help people to learn more about healthy food.
We aim to inspire greater change by sharing the impact of our community dining spaces and the voices of our guests to encourage more people to join and support FoodCycle, so we can help more people and more communities.
How to get free or cheap food- lots of ideas and up to date information
This is a really interesting article with a lot of other links for support
Vouchers and local food pantries
Ask your local authority about:
- their crisis fund and emergency supermarket vouchers
- food partnerships, who can tell you what’s available in your area
- emergency payments that you do not have to pay back
- local food pantries, community fridges and ‘social supermarkets’
A site that you can use to buy cheap food from restaurants and shops that is surplus near you.
Downloadable App
Food donations
Non-perishable, in-date food is donated by the public at a range of places, such as schools, churches, and businesses, as well as supermarket collection points.
Food vouchers
Care professionals such as health visitors, staff at schools and social workers identify people in crisis and issue them with a food bank voucher. This means people can receive a food bank parcel of three days’ nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food from their local food bank
Chapter 22 Online Shopping
Online Shop. Good first time offer
Chapter 23 Museums and Art Galleries
You can use this to find one near you.
If you know of any that are not on this list please tell me, and I can add it.
Staying in Activities
Chapter 7 – Containers
How to make an aquarium diorama- 13 minutes – Craftwonders Liji
This shows extensive use of a glue gun. You can use any PVA glue instead.
Chapter 8 – Challenges
How to make an aquarium diorama- 13 minutes – Craftwonders Liji
This shows extensive use of a glue gun. You can use any PVA glue instead.
Chapter 9 – Other ways to sell
Setting up a school uniform shop, including online sales.Classlist
Chapter 10 – Cooking
Cooking programme with a group of young children : Messy Hands – Kids Cooking
Can give you ideas. Good on hygiene.
Toddler cooking demonstration – 5 mins : Susie’s Cooking Show
Hygiene is ghastly but is so cute and hopefully could inspire you.
Chapter 11 – Presents, Christmas and Birthdays
How To Have An Awesome Christmas When You Have No Money : Rediscovered Families
Website full of great Christmas ideas for anyone on a budget.
How to have a magical Christmas with no money. Fun and frugal Christmas ideas to make sure you enjoy the holiday season, even if you’re broke.
A review of all the different ways you can save.
Chapter 12 – Water play
23 Easy & Fun Water Play Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
25+ Water Play Activities for Kids in the backyard
Chapter 13 – Making a mess on purpose
Child showing how to make cornflour mix- shows what you are aiming at
Chapter 14 – Language
15 Language Games and Activities for Family Fun at Home Tomedes
Family – Playful ways to encourage speech and language development
First Cry Parenting – 11 language activities for young children
Chapter 15 – Angels and Acts of Random Kindness
ARK – ARK is a program that encourages individuals to change the world by performing Acts of Random Kindness. Small amounts of money, put into the yellow ARK, and given randomly to someone less fortunate change the lives of both the person giving and receiving.
Random Acts of Kindness – Can you imagine a world where kindness is the norm? That’s the world we want.
That’s why we do what we do. And it requires some intentional actions.
We love connecting people with ideas and resources. We encourage and celebrate acts of kindness.
It’s definitely not normal. But it might be soon. #MakeKindnesstheNorm
61 suggestions for random act of kindness
Evening Standard article about Annual random act of kindness day 17th February each year
Chapter 16 – Sleepovers
Advice on running a sleepover
10 tips for hosting a successful sleepover
A girl called Lily gives advice on what young people can do on a sleepover. You might not want your children to see this, not all ideas are what you want them up to, but it is an interesting watch!
Chapter 17 – Catalogues
This shows you how to make cards using photographs. The chapter talks about a much simpler option of using pictures from catalogues.However this article does give some more ideas
Chapter 18 – Keeping the house clean
It’s fun making these, even if you don’t do the cleaning!
Some really great creations- almost makes cleaning fun!
Holiday Ideas
Chapter 24 House Exchange
A good place to start if you are considering this
Chapter 25 Staycation
This article doesn’t really get the Staycation idea but does give some useful tips anyway