Make a Difference
Every day your local BBC radio station is helping bring communities together to make a difference closer to home.
Listen to the Make a Difference bulletins and together we’ll stay connected.
This page shares details of help and support from organisations who are working hard to make life better for all of us.
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.
Give a laptop
With schools now closed again we’re once more asking you to help those pupils still in need.
There are charities across the country who will safely wipe devices and link up with schools in your area to ensure that they reach the young people that need the devices the most.
Please do not bring donations to BBC sites because we are unable to accept them.
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Give a laptop
We’re once more asking you to help pupils in need of devices while learning in lockdown.
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Keeping Faith
Sharing services, speakers and reflections from various faiths during the coronavirus crisis.
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Make a Difference Heroes meet...
Join Owain Wyn Evans, inspiring people and music idols.
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Make a Difference podcast
Stories of people making a difference across England. Listen 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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Podcasts and Series
Explore and listen to comedy, faith, politics and real-life stories from BBC Radio teams local to you.
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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Local lockdown rules
BBC News has this handy guide to find out more about the Covid tier rules based on your postcode.
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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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Upload
Sharing your audio, video, text and images on air and across local BBC Radio digital platforms.
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Teaching support
A collection of free curriculum-mapped content from BBC Teach.
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Daily lessons
BBC Bitesize is sharing three new lessons every weekday, with videos, activities and more.
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Lockdown Learning
Resources and programmes on BBC iPlayer to support learners, teachers and parents.
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Tiny Happy People
Explore simple activities, play ideas and find out more about your child's early development.
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Workouts on BBC Sport
Stay fit with videos from BBC Sport.
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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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Memory Radio
Designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories.
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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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Make a Difference Awards
Find out more about awards open in your area with details of how to enter.
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Pledge to talk
Tackling loneliness and social isolation by connecting with someone who you haven’t spoken to in a while.
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Million pounds of work
Looking at ways to help support people back to work in towns and cities across England.
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The Big Bubble Singalong
McFly are joined by people singing and dancing along to their song 'Happiness' for BBC Children in Need.
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Remember Together
Hundreds sent in photos of the names of those who have served our country, to help us make a giant poppy.
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Summer of Music 2020
Virtual festivals and mixes created for you in a year when most events are cancelled due to Covid-19.
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Poetry
Local BBC radio stations commissioned poets to create a poem inspired by people who are making a difference.
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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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Captain Tom's Birthday Salute
Thousands of you have been taking photos of yourselves and your families saluting Captain 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.
