Neighbours

	Occasional Help a friend with their garden.
	The Big Ask Start up a food cooperative with your neighbours. See Suma, Infinity Foods or Goodness Direct
	One-hit wonder Hold a Christmas party with a difference for your neighbours. Use only local, organic, animal-friendly and fairly-traded produce.
	Repeating challenge Give ethical presents for Christmas/birthdays: buy from charity shops or buy ‘virtual gifts’ from organisations such as Oxfam, Tearfund, RSPB and World Vision. See also www.livinggenerously.com
	Occasional Hold a toy/book/clothes/CD/DVD exchange event with your neighbours
	Occasional Talk to your next door neighbours. Even better, take them a cake, or invite them in for a cup of tea. See how they feel about the local environment (green space, recycling, litter, wildlife, pollution) and if you can find an area you could work together on
	Repeating challenge Instead of giving ‘stuff’, give time to your friends
	The Big Ask Work with your Council on turning your street into a ‘Home Zone’. For more, see Living Streets.
	Occasional Hold a ‘green’ event at your church that you could invite friends of any belief / background to: e.g. a LOAF dinner or an eco-swapshop
	Occasional Hold an Easter-egg hunt for the children in your street