Support the World's To-Do List

You're not done. The world's to-do list has your name on it.

The bit nobody plans for

The money was sorted. The calendar was the problem.

You've done the sums. You know what the pension does, roughly what the years look like, and which month the last payslip lands. That part is handled.

What nobody warns you about is the fourth Tuesday. The washing is done by half nine and the day is just sitting there. And the thing you turn out to miss isn't the work. It's mattering to somebody by Wednesday.

So you say you'd like to do more. Give something back. Then you go looking, and you find a council page last updated years ago, a national charity that wants two years of your life before it will say hello, and somebody suggesting the local charity shop. You close the laptop.

Wanting to help is easy. Finding where is the hard part.

Three ways this goes

You have already picked one of these.

Every figure below comes from something real. Two of them are uncomfortable.

You leave it

18%

The share of the global goals on track.

Many have gone backwards. The deadline is 2030 and it is not moving. Another year passes and the intention stays an intention.

You look on your own

Causes that fitted, after hours of looking.

That was Simone after her son's crash in September 2023, across Facebook, friends, online communities and three campaign platforms. What came back was single-hospital appeals and listings for causes that had already stopped. She took no action at all.

You use this

793

Real, named organisations, across 850 listings, covering 16 of the 17 goals.

You'll say where you are and what you care about. You'll get named organisations back, and the ways to act with them. One search instead of an evening.

Six of the 793, so you can see the range for yourself:

The Hunger Project
Samaritans
Trussell
WaterAid
Shropshire Wildlife Trust
Surfers Against Sewage

See all seventeen goals in plain English, and who's working on each one

Put me on the list

Why this exists

I went looking for this and it wasn't there.

In September 2023 my son was involved in a serious car crash. The hospital had no beds. He waited two hours for an ambulance and his friend waited three, just after 9pm on a Thursday, close to a hospital.

I wanted to act. I hunted on Facebook, asked friends, put it to the online communities I was part of, then searched 38 Degrees, campaign platforms and JustGiving, looking for something to put my energy behind. What came back was a quagmire of disparate information, and some of the causes weren't even running any more. I did nothing about the thing I'd actually watched happen.

Seventeen days later I abseiled down the ArcelorMittal Orbit for The Hunger Project UK and raised £2,842 in six days. That worked because of the years of contacts and communities I'd already built. Most people haven't got those, and they shouldn't need them.

So I'm building it for them.

Simone Whitfield, Newport, Shropshire.

What it does, and what it will do

A search, and real names at the end of it.

The site is evolving and getting ready for launch. The search works today. The cause finder quiz is the piece that isn't built yet, and when that's live we'll let you know.

What works today

A search by where you are and what you care about. Type a postcode or a town. Results come back grouped by how close they are, closest first. You never need to know a goal number.
Real organisations, named. Charities and community groups that exist, with a link so you can go and look at them yourself.
Put forward a cause you already know about, if you want to. It's help, never a condition of anything. Help us evolve this and make it really useful for everyone, on the form below.

What's coming

The ways to act. Time, voice or money, so it never assumes everybody wants to turn up in person on a Saturday.
Your own radius. Down the road, across the county, or wherever the cause actually is.
Save what you find, follow an organisation, and hear when something new appears near you.

Searching costs nothing, and it always will.

Put me on the list

Where this actually is

Not launched. Here is everything that is true today.

You'll get the honest version on this page or you won't get anything.

793: Organisations, across 850 listings, covering 16 of the 17 goals.
0: People have used it. It hasn't opened yet, so there is nothing to claim.
4: Shropshire towns that took up plastic free status after Sustainable Newport did, under Simone's chairing. That work was recognised with the King's Award for Voluntary Service.

Community Interest Company registration is in progress. Built by one person, so far.

Honestly

Who this is for, and who it isn't.

You'll get something from this

Your working life has just ended, or it ends this year.
You've said you'd like to give something back and it hasn't happened yet.
You want thirty years of experience used, not just a pair of hands.
You'd rather join something good that already exists than start something new.
Something happened, and you want to act this week.

You won't

You already give to a charity every month and you're happy with it.
You're looking for paid work. This isn't that.
You want somebody to tell you what to care about.
You need it today. It isn't open yet.

One thing to do

Be there the day it opens.

I haven't launched yet. Leave your name and I'll tell you the day it does, and I won't use your address for anything else.

First name Email address

Two things to join. Everything else is optional, and I won't ask for your phone number.

You're on the list.

I'll email you the day it opens, and nothing before that unless there's something genuinely worth telling you. If it slips, I'll say so rather than go quiet.

Thank you. Simone