This year as every year, the first week of June is marked by a host of community and charitable groups across the UK and worldwide as Volunteers’ Week.

Without volunteers there’d be no bi support services out there.

From the formation of the London Bi Group in 1981 or bisexual chatter over coffee in Bristol to Manchester’s structured bi-talky-space meetings, London’s Bi Pride festival to annual celebrations of Bi Visibility Day, and of course the fabulous sound of a new issue of BCN landing on your doormat most “bi things” you have ever heard of are run on a shoestring by people who do it for love rather than money.

To some people, “bisexual activism” sounds hard: perhaps even something for a confident few.

But it’s not so difficult to get involved in bisexual volunteering: just get in touch with a bi group local to you or find something online that works on issues you are interested in and ask.

Suppose you had ten minutes to spare to help the bi movement, not every day or every week, just now and again… what could you do?

Come out to someone

Put up a poster

Email a newspaper

Update your preferred social media channel with a bi link or quick coming out / staying out anecdote

Talk to a friend

Donate to a bi organisation

Read a web forum or mailing list

Make another activist a cuppa

Make a badge

Sign a petition

Take a photo of something bi-related and post it online

Talk to people at work

Put on a bi t-shirt or badge

Request a bi-related book at your local library

Proof read something

Drop off flyers en route somewhere

Introduce yourself to an activist and ask how you can help next time you have ten minutes to spare

OK, suppose you could spare an hour or so, perhaps every couple of months… so just a few times a year…

Donation? If you are feeling time-poor but money-rich perhaps donate to a bi project like the UK’s longestrunning social/support organisation BiPhoria

Attend something – a bi group, or an LG(bt+) group where you mention being bi…

Read BCN

Be visible

Engage in a discussion online (try to ignore the worst of the trolls!)

Make a few dozen badges

Other craft activity e.g. making bi-flag coloured friendship bracelet

Drop off flyers

Write to your MP or council(lor) on a bi issue

Be the out bi person at a meeting

Suppose you had a bit more time than that and could give over a day, once every few months….

Write a longer article

Go on a flyering run for a group or organisation

Run a workshop at a group or event

Make posters, flyers or teeshirts

Go on a Pride march

Run a stall at Pride or something non-LGBT like a local international women’s week event

Work with others on making a bi banner

Ostentatiously read a bi book on a train

So you get hooked by the activism bug and decide that you can give it a day or a night once each month….

Attend or run a local bi group

Design, then print, then distribute, a new poster campaign over

Do lots of the things that take ten minutes or an hour!

Be a bi rep at a non-bi organisation

Work on a chapter for a book

Maintain a bi website

Research bi history

Translate resources into another language you are fluent in

Put on a fundraising event for a bi organisation

Do a photo shoot for online / printed resources

Co-ordinate other people’s activism eg by goading them to take turns to write a column for a local LGBT+ website.

Jen

To find out more about National Volunteers’ Week go to volunteersweek.org

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