Free activities online

We have 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! Here's an Easy-Read guide to using Zoom this page was updated January 21st

Get social with The Brain Charity

Virtual Coffee Morning, on the first and third Monday of the month, using Zoom. If you'd like to join our meet-up, please email Shaun and he'll send you the Zoom meeting ID and password.
Knit and Natter, every Wednesday, on Zoom
Open Eye Art Project,, every Thursday, on Zoom

Clap for Heroes : Clap for Carers is back on Thursday at 8pm
FiNDlay's FND Music Playlist
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, twice-weekly, online singing event, using Zoom

Total Wipeout: Freddie & Paddy Takeover
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

Joe Wicks : The Body Coach is back on YouTube
Couch to 5K: week by week exercise (NHS)
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 Goddess

The Big Garden Birdwatch with the RSPB, January 29-31
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
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

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

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