Three things

Here are 3

Pick one. Each takes about as long as it says.

• Look after the thing they love while they cannot

  The plants, the dog, the allotment, the band. Keeping someone's project alive through an illness keeps a version of them alive too.

  OngoingFreeA friend

• Set up a standing childcare swap

  Two families alternating one evening a month gives both of them something neither could otherwise afford.

  OngoingFreeA friend

• Turn up for the team that is losing

  Supporting anything is easy when it is going well. The useful attendance is in a bad season.

  OngoingUnder $10A friend