Get local jobs through Jobsgrapevine

Visit the Jobsgrapevine forum-based website. It’s free, easy and effective: just sign up, then write a message offering your skills or time to people in your area. It can be anything from babysitting, dog walking or house sitting to teaching a language, creating a website, performing at weddings or painting and decorating. If there isn’t a thread that matches what you’re selling, post it in the Misc thread and they’ll create a space for it if there’s enough demand.

You can also find work and all kinds of odd jobs through your local versions of Gumtree and Craigslist, so keep looking there too.

Sell ​​energy to the national interconnected system

If you like green energy (congratulations if you do!), you could soon be selling your surplus power back into the national grid. If, like David Cameron, you have installed solar panels on your roof or are using a stream at the end of your garden to generate hydroelectric power, you could sell some of your surplus, pay your energy bills and more!

The problem is that it has to be green energy. You can’t just divert your neighbor’s electricity and sell it to the grid!

If you don’t have green power in your home right now, you have time to install it if you’re interested.

• As of April 2010, a program of what is called ‘Feed-in Tariffs’ (FiTs) will begin, an income for each kilowatt hour generated. All renewable energy qualifies.
• Starting in April 2011, another potential source of income will be available where you can also receive a Renewable Heat Rate (RHI).

Both schemes will pay you a bonus for exporting power or renewable heat sources to the grid or grid. It may sound complicated, but there are a growing number of specialist providers and websites that can provide advice and information. The British organization Ownenergy is a company that clearly explains how to do it.

Renewable energy, which is suitable for domestic use, includes solar power, wind turbines, water turbines, geothermal heat pumps, or biomass boilers and stoves. These various technologies are designed to last 20 to 25 years, but come with an installation cost. However, over time, you should be able to earn that money back. Ownenergy has found that you should be able to generate and save twice the money you pay for power generation technology.

In addition, there are a range of government grants of up to £2,500 per property available to homeowners installing renewable energy technology. Your grants are also designed to contribute to the UK’s goal of generating 15% of our energy from renewable sources. Check out the latest information on Department of Energy and Climate Change Low Carbon Buildings Program grants.

rent your ticket

Have an unused driveway, garage or private parking space? Do you live somewhere popular like the city center, near a station, or near a sports field? You could make money by renting out your space. Contact Park Let or Parkatmyhouse.com to advertise.

Even if you use the driveway regularly, you can still make money by renting it out temporarily. For example, you may not use it on weekends, when the local football stadium is busy, or early in the morning when commuters need to park near the station.

rent a room

You can earn up to £4,250 a year by renting out a room without having to pay tax on it. You can advertise your room on Easyroommate, which covers the whole of the UK and is free to post.

We also like Spareroom, which includes an interesting ‘friends’ section where people looking for a place to stay can find other people in the area who are looking for it too. Then you can get together and find a whole house or a flat to rent together.

If sharing your space permanently doesn’t appeal to you, consider accepting foreign students on short notice. English schools are always looking for good homes for their growing number of students. Depending on where you live and how nice your place is, you can earn between 35 and 150 per week. Check out Idiom for a list of language schools in your area that you can contact to offer your space.

Or, find someone to stay with you part-time. The Monday-to-Friday website specializes in this type of person. It attracts people who want to stay in their city on weeknights for work, but return to their own home for the weekend, sometimes for long weekends.

However, you don’t just have to rent to people. If you have a dry and empty basement, a large loft, a wine cellar or a garage, you can advertise them as storage space. You could earn anywhere from £5 a week to store a few boxes in your attic to around £50 to fill a garage in central London.

rent your garden

If you have a spacious garden, consider converting it to allotments, especially if you live in a city. In London the typical waiting time for an assignment is 10 years! So if you don’t mind people coming into your garden whenever they want and growing whatever fruits and vegetables (and possibly flowers) they like, then it’s a good way to earn some extra cash and keep weeds out of the place. . Municipal allowances charge very little, between 10 and 30 per year. But that doesn’t stop you from doing a private arrangement and charging as much as the market allows.