Free activities online

We've had to stay at home as much as possible during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but there are still many amazing places we can visit online with virtual tours. Or follow cooking or online exercise classes. Find a distraction online. It's all free!  updated August 7th

Get social with The Brain Charity

• The Brain Charity's Virtual Coffee Morning every other Monday, using Zoom
• Mindfulness online, relaxation using Zoom
• The Brain Charity's Shared reading using WhatsApp Messenger on Android or Apple
• Online hat-making, including making PPE
• The Brain e-Quiz, on Thursday nights, using Zoom
• Drinks with Kim every other Saturday night, using Zoom

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Music

• Glastonbury on the BBC iPlayer
• Lancashire Youth Brass Band videos on Facebook
• The Shows Must Go On! full-length musicals every Friday on YouTube
• Gareth Malone's Great British Home Chorus on YouTube
• The Sofa Singers - join the free, weekly, online singing event, using Zoom

Sport

• Virtual Everest Climb for Nerve Tumours UK
• Run for charity wherever you are
• BrakeFit - stay active during lockdown and raise money for the road safety charity

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Exercise

• Couch to 5K
• The English National Ballet have exercise classes on YouTube that are suitable for people with neurological conditions... and also those without.
• Fit for Me - activity for for everyone at home; look out for photos of some of The Brain Charity family on the Liverpool page
• Work out with the Green Goddes

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Try something new

• Free WEA Activities live
• Jamie Oliver’s Keep Cooking and Carry On using store-cupboard ingredients
• BreadAhead Bakery - bread-baking tutorials on Instagram every day at 2.00pm
• Online learning with the Life Rooms - cooking tutorials, exercise and activity, mental health and wellbeing
• Gardening for beginners - videos from the Eden Project
• TotalPeople are running short traning courses - contact The Brain Charity
• BBC Together - watch your favourite BBC programmes online with your friends
• The Skills Toolkit - free digital and numeracy courses
• Play Virtual Piano
• Play chess against the computer or challenge a friend online
• Art classes on YouTube
• Learn a new language
• Learn the basics of British Sign Language
• What bird is that? Learn to identify birdsong with the RSPB
• Watch the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures on science
• Covid Cuts Challenge for NHS Charities Together Urgent Appeal cut your hair at home and donate the usual cost to the appeal

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Virtual visits

• Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, has donkey webcams
• Virtual 3D tours of Liverpool's museums and galleries
• English Heritage on YouTube - visit historic sites online and learn more about them
• Online tour of the Louvre
• British Museum
• Buckingham Palace
• The Vatican and the Sistine Chapel
• The Human Clock: people around the world show the time
• Live tropical fish webcam
• Train ride from the driver's eye view: New Zealand: Christchurch-Greymouth
• Badger webcam - watch them come out at night, at the Scottish wildlife centre

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Books and reading

• Libraries from home: your local library is still offering services, events and activities online
• Coronavirus: a book for childen by Axel 'Gruffalo' Scheffler
• Free audio-books for people with health conditions from Listening Books
• Free audio-books for all ages from the Book Ideas Hub
• Free e-books for all ages for the free Kindle Reading App, and magazines too
• Free audio-books for children and young people from Audible
• The Reader at Home: shared reading online or on the phone

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Just for fun

• MS Trust Home Festival, 22nd August
• Free online Scrabble - you'll need your mouse
• Free online jigsaw puzzles - you'll need your mouse for this as well
• CirqueConnect: Cirque du Soleil shows on YouTube
• You can still watch the BBC's Big Night In on the BBC iPlayer
• General knowledge crossword puzzles online from Chambers dictionaries
• Harry Potter at Home
• The National Trust has activites to do at home
• The Scouts explore The Great Indoors
• The Rainbow Trail: make a rainbow and post it on the Facebook public group

How to draw a rainbow / painting (Dad draws)

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