Make a Difference
Coronavirus
Sharing details of help and support from organisations and individuals in your area who are working hard to make things easier for you.
Listen to the Make a Difference bulletins on your local BBC radio station every day and we’ll ensure more people stay connected.
Click here to upload your audio, images or video. It could be voice notes, stories of life during the pandemic or ways you are making a difference.
Upload your creative work (fiction, poetry, comedy, videos, podcasts or vlogs) via bbc.co.uk/upload.
See our Things To Do section for links and information from our colleagues across the BBC.
Make a Difference in poetry
As part of the Make a Difference campaign, local BBC radio stations have commissioned poets to create a poem inspired by people who are "making a difference" to the lives of those in need.
And poem for England titled “Lockdown Lines” has been written by poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan. The poem celebrates thousands of "tiny local kindnesses".
Click here for more information and to hear the poems
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Make a Difference podcast
Stories of people making a difference across England during the coronavirus pandemic. On BBC Sounds.
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Unusual Times podcast
Exploring 'the new normal' and how Covid-19 has affected us all. Listen on BBC Sounds.
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Keeping Faith
Sharing services, speakers and reflections from various faiths during the coronavirus crisis.
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Upload
Upload your voice notes, stories of life during the pandemic or things you're doing to make a difference.
Click on the local BBC radio station nearest to you for more information
Nations
Click here to find contact details to get in touch directly with stations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
Things to do
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Podcasts and Series
Listen to comedy, politics and real-life stories from BBC Radio teams local to you.
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Lockdown Upload
Share what you create, help to entertain the nation and capture your experiences of lockdown.
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Upload Festival
Upload your files for a chance to perform at the Upload Festival, 9 - 21 June.
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BBC Introducing
Bringing together all of the BBC's supporters of unsigned music. Upload your music to your local BBC Radio station.
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Daily lessons
BBC Bitesize is sharing three new lessons every weekday, with videos activity and more.
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Workouts on BBC Sport
Stay fit with videos from BBC Sport. #StayInWorkOut
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Step-by-step guide: How to video call your family
BBC News has this handy guide on how to use technology to call your friends and family.
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Get creative
BBC Arts brings together arts, culture and resources to help you be creative at home.
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Great British Bunting
Thousands of you made and displayed your own bunting to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
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Tom's Birthday Salute
Thousands of you have been taking photos of yourselves and your families saluting Colonel Tom Moore.
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Owain's Big House Band
Hundreds of you sent us clips playing the BBC News theme music, after being inspired by Owain Wyn Evans.
