The neighbourhood runs on people like you.

Not heroes. Not saints. People with a free hour and a working phone. Mutual aid’s open secret is that givers get as much as they give — the UK’s pandemic networks found the volunteers who stayed weren’t the ones with the most time, they were the ones who made friends doing it.

What you can offer (circle any, like the paper form says)

Cooking · driving · errands · lifting and moving · shovelling · phone check-ins · visiting · translation — every language in this riding is an asset · fixing things · childcare relief (adult present) · hosting ten neighbours once a season. Once, weekly, or on-call.

Two ways in

• Email unitetolove@gmail.com — what you can offer, how often, how to reach you.
• In person at the East Lynn market table, Thursdays 3–7. Sign the sheet; a welcome buddy calls you within two days, and your first anything is never done alone.

What it’s actually like

A match is small and human: someone two streets over needs groceries Thursday; you said groceries; you get a message; you say yes or you say not-this-week (both are fine answers); it gets done; it gets counted. No quotas, no guilt, no meetings about meetings. And someone whose entire role is watching that volunteers don’t burn out — because the network that is fun outlives the network that is worthy.

Want more than matches? Start a block circle — the ten-household version of everything on this page.

We never handle money. No donations are taken here or anywhere — if you want to give money, give it directly to the verified organizations in the directory.

Volunteer-run and non-partisan — no party, no candidate, no memberships, nothing for sale. Beaches–East York Mutual Aid Networks (“BEY Mutual Aid”) is part of Toronto’s Mutual Aid Networks: a network of networks — nobody owns mutual aid.