New ways of making some extra cash come up all the time – so we’re updating the list on our site regularly. There are so many ways to earn a bit of money on the side… read on for a host of ideas to get you started.

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• NEW Use up ‘Sliversoftime’ to work locally
• NEW Start looking for work for Christmas
• NEW Sign up to Twitter
• NEW Earn by referring friends
• NEW Grab the latest discounts and freebies
• NEW Earn money again and again – rent your stuff
• NEW Save hundreds through Direct Debit
• NEW Festival staff
• NEW Get cash for ink cartridges
• NEW Sell energy to the National Grid
• NEW Make money from your creativity
• NEW Become a life model
• Write Travel Guides
• Make money promoting clubs
• Make money referring friends for jobs
• Get paid to party
• Distribute Leaflets
• Sell cards
• Get paid to review music
• Distribute free papers
• Be a freelance interviewer
• Do market research interviews
• Be a Pedicab driver
• Mystery Shopping
• Proofread
• Create Webpages
• Get Paid for Blogging
• Streetcar
• Work as an Extra
• Fill out surveys
• Work Speciality Events
• Become a dog walker
• Become a voice-over artist
• Do the school run
• Earn money for yourself and for charity
• Work at a football stadium
• Host and teach foreign students
• Get paid to help save the planet
• Become a home tutor
• Become a Mobile Caterer
• Write a story
• Work at events
• Earn and get free accomodation
• Earn by referring
• Be a travel writer
• NHS Secretaries – make money transcribing
• Make cash from your driveway
• Have your true story published
• Get paid to write
• Get paid to iron
• Sell unwanted DVDs and CDs
• Share your money making ideas on our money making forum

Start applying for seasonal work

It might seem a bit premature, but if you’re thinking of doing a bit of work over the Christmas season you could do worse than start investigating positions now. Boots, for example, has already got their Christmas 2010 application programme open. Most big supermarkets and retailers will open their Christmas recruitment in late September or early October, so keep an eye out for jobs in your area. And because the Christmas season is so busy, rates of pay are pretty good.

Use your Slivers of Time to work locally

A new government-backed website called Sliversoftime.com can match people with just a few hours to spare here and there with local work that’s just part-time. You just register with the site, get a calendar and then when you’ve got a few hours to spare coming up, put your free time on the calendar. Then these spare hours are sent to local agencies and businesses like call centres, catering companies, retail outlets and distribution centres who regularly use part-time workers.

Earn by referring

There are more and more companies offering to pay you to refer your friends. The website Refermehappy has a load of companies that do it and we’ve got even more in our article on Referring friends.

Join Twitter

OK, so just joining Twitter won’ t make you a millionaire – but it is a fantastic, quick paced forum for picking up little extra jobs to net you your bit on the side. For instance, we’ve just seen ‘extrapeopleltd’ asking for “a Boy George lookalike for a Mark Ronson music video, excellent rates of pay – pls call the office 020 7734 7606″. Because the Twitter world moves quickly this particular offer might not still be open, but you can bet that there are plenty more like it out there.

Write Travel Guides

Get paid to write travel guides at SimonSeeks. They are looking for intelligent, well-written and gramatically correct guides of holiday destinations. Register and upload your guide, await approval from the site’s editorial team, and get paid based on its popularity. There are also 100 prizes of £200 for the best guide-writers. Join the site known as “the Youtube of travel” today!

Grab freebies and discounts

HotUKDeals is great for up to the minute bargains and freebies. It’s updated constantly – though you often have to move fast to catch the deals! Well worth checking out though.

Promote clubs

Like clubbing? Do you have lots of friends? Make money by bringing them into clubs. Go to Velvet PR for free. Tell them where you live and they’ll let you know which clubs need promoting.

Post your skills for free

Want to do some babysitting in your area, or cleaning, or are good at DIY and could put up other people’s shelves? Post yourself and your skills on Jobsgrapevine for free. It’s an online forum that anyone can advertise on. If you need someone to mend your computer or cut your lawn for you, go onto the site and see who’s in your area to do it. Gumtree is also good for advertising your skills to people in your local area and beyond.

Make money referring friends to jobs

Register with Jobfact! for free and then make £100 by referring your friends to their jobs. They’re a jobs website and it costs nothing to join. All you have to do is put all your details in then refer any friends who are looking for work. Then if any of them actually get a job through the site you get a lovely commission of £100. Click here now to start making easy money.

Make money blogging

There are occasionally websites seeking bloggers to write daily posts, reviews and adding links. It won’t pay well but can be a useful little earner for little effort – particularly if you already enjoy writing your own blog. Check on Gumtree under both the part-time work and the media, design and creative tabs.

Sell your photos

You don’t have to be a pro to sell your photos. Nor do you need to albums full of dramatic shots. If you have a library of decent, ordinary digital snaps – you may be able to sell them through an online agencies like Picture Nation, 123RF and Fotolia. You get a royalty fee each time a picture of yours sells. You’d be surprised at how many websites and businesses will be interested in using your pics – and willing to pay for the privilege.

Rent your stuff

Instead of selling stuff on eBay, why not rent it out? That way, you can make money from it again and again (and still use it yourself if you want). Try the Rentnotbuy website – you can lend out anything from a black tie suit to a TV. If you’ve got a few rentable items, it could turn into a nice little earner.

Get cash for your ink cartridges

Cashforcartridges will pay up to £4.50 per empty cartridge, whilst Inksave also offer some very competitive rates. You’ll be doing your bit for recycling, while making a tidy sum into the bargain! If you can collect your friend and family’s unwanted cartridges, you can make even more. (Also enquire what your employer’s policy is towards used ink cartridges. Many needlessly throw hundreds away each year – so why not take them off their hands?)

Festival staff

Festaff supplies casual staff for over a dozen music festivals in the UK including Bestival, Creamfields, Wickerman, Camp Bestival, Isle of Wight Festival, Sonispshere, Rockness and Beachdown. This work is seasonal, and they’ve finished recruiting for 2010, but if you fancy going to a festival next year keep an eye on their website for 2011 recruitment opportunities. Pay is minimum wage – but you do get free entrance to the festival and camp facility.

Become a life model

If you’re comfortable with nudity, you could make good money as a life model. Pay depends on where you are in the country, but you could earn between £8 and £10 an hour. Take a look at our article for details of how to get started.

Get Paid to Party

Become a Body Shop at Home Consultant. The Body Shop recruits people to sell Body Shop products at special beauty parties in peoples’ homes. If the party goes well, you could earn over £100 in just one evening as well as receive lots of beauty products for free. What’s more, as you get to decide when you want to host these evenings, you can work as little or often as you like.

Distribute Leaflets

Leafleters are always needed by shops, business, night clubs etc. to spread the news of their existence to the general public. Often leafleters are only needed a couple of times a week and usually earn upwards of £6/hour. As a paid job with added exercise, this could also help you to get fit and get paid for it without wracking up huge gym bills. Try Gumtree to find a job as a leaflet distributor and earn extra money now!

Distribute free papers

Earn yourself as much as £10 an hour handing out the Evening Standard, or The Metro (which is distributed all over the UK). Apply here and find out more about making extra cash delivering by clicking here.

Sell cards

To make a bit of money on the side you could start up your own card business. Starting up your own business sounds like a lot of work, but with Phoenix Trading it doesn’t have to be. To start off you simply order an Introductory Pack, which contains an application form which you then fill in and return along with your first order for cards.

Get paid to review music

If you’re a music fan, you can sign up to the unique Slicethepie website for free and become a scout. This basically involves getting paid to listen to the music of unsigned bands from all over the world and review it. Obviously, your reviews have to be competent and fairly well informed, but need only be a few sentences long. Initially you won’t make much, but as you get a better scout rating (i.e. the more reviews you make, and the more they agree with the majority of reviewers) you can make more and more. There are also a few other ways to increase your earnings on the site; check it all out here. You can also read all about it in our article here.

Be a freelance interviewer

NatCen has a national panel of over 1000, and all receive paid training and reimbursement of transport costs (if you have a car then this is ideal). You can get around £15 for a 35 minute interview, and around £5.50 for every hour spent travelling.

Do market research interviews

Gfk is currently recruiting individuals to conduct face to face market research interviews. There is absolutely no selling involved. All you have to do is interview people about a variety of different topics. Pay is on average £54- £70 a day. No experience is necessary as full training is given’ . Find out more about market research jobs here.

Be a Pedicab driver

Driving a Pedicab/bug/rickshaw is a great way to stay in shape, meet loads of people and offer emission free transport to London’s visitors. The Bugbugs Community offers training with an accredited National Cycling Certificate awarded. The cost of training is £50, with a £100 deposit required for the duration of your employment, you keep everything you earn, so the harder you work, the more you make.

Mystery Shopping

Mystery shopping is a fun way to earn some extra money while shopping, or testing services at local restaurants and pubs. Sounds like a dream job! TNS Mystery Shopper is looking for new shoppers nationwide to assess a variety of different businesses such as shops and restaurants. Read our article about Mystery Shopping for more useful links and information.

Proofread

It can be very boring to read pile of unedited work; however the pay is decent at £10 an hour for a novice and up to £30 an hour for someone with qualifications. Go on home working and go through their directory of companies that are looking for proofreaders.

Create Webpages

One of the most popular sites in the US is Squidoo. It is a site where people create a lens (their own webpage) on their favourite topic. The site then makes money from advertisers and links. It then pays 5% of its profits to charity, retains 45% to cover its admin costs, which leaves 50% of the profits for the writer or the charity of their choice. So get started writing about any of your favourite topics, it is free to set up and you can start earning some royalties.

Sell your energy

Does your home have energy generated by renewable technology (e.g. solar panels)? Or are you considering going down this route? If so, you could make good money by selling any surplus energy you generate back to the National Grid. You’d be surprised at how much can be generated and how much it could make you. Click here for the full lowdown.

Streetcar

Streetcar employs teams including students to promote their brand on the street, especially in London. You can even ride a bike covered in their advertising around London for £8 an hour, stopping occasionally to promote the brand. The shift times are 10:00am to 4:30pm with occasional extended hours, and they request that you’re physically fit, fun, and confident in promoting their brand. To become a team leader on the foot based street teams, you can earn £10 an hour. They ask for a minimum commitment of 25 hours per week which can be spread over a seven day period. We asked Streetcar how best to find their street team work, and they said keep an eye on websites such as Gumtree and promojobspro.com.

Make money from your creativity

If you’re good at arts and crafts, there’s a big market out there for your talents. Sites like Coriandr, Folksy and Not Mass Produced.com are crying out for people like you to sell their handmade goods online. These sites normally take a small commission of any sale you make (usually around 2-3%) – but in return give you a ‘virtual shop’ for your goods. You could set up your own blog and sell your goods online, of course, but this is an easier route if you’re not web savvy. Plus, these sites attract a lot more customers than you would do if you set up a site on your tod. Definitely worth a look!

Work as an Extra

Want to be in a movie with your favourite celebrity? Always thought it would be fun to see your face on the big screen? Acting extras are ordinary people that are essential to setting up scenes in films or television shows. You can earn £65 for 9 hours of work, with a £20 bonus …not to mention the bragging rights if you are in the same shot, even momentarily, with lead actors. The Acting Website offers loads of information on how to become an acting extra, and you can see a directory of extra’s agents on UK Screen. For more information on becoming an extra have a look at our article.

Fill Out Surveys

Filling out surveys from your favourite stores can provide some extra cash or store vouchers. Many large chains like Boots, Argos, Debenhams all will pay for your opinion. Try sites like Surveyhead (they pay you just for signing up) and Valued Opinions (they pay around £50 for some specialist surveys, and around £5 for quicker questionnaires). See our article on paid online surveys here to get the pick of the survey sites.

Become a dog walker

If you’d like to combine your love of the outdoors and animals then dog walking can be a great way to earn some extra money too! Earnings range from £6-£10 per half hour. Register your self as a dog walking company at Nards.

Become a voice-over artist

Get paid around £50 an hour using your voice. Subscribe with Voices.com, upload a sample of your voice and quickly and easily apply for voice-over jobs. (You may find that you get head hunted if you have a distinctive voice!) If you are successful, you will be on your way to recording and cash!

Become a nanny

If you’re looking for some part time nanny work, you can just be an after school nanny so it doesn’t take up your whole day. You’d be responsible for picking up the children from school at around 3pm and then taking them home and looking after them until their parents get home from work. The job involves supervising homework and playtime, preparing tea and ferrying the children around to any after-school activities they take part in. After-school nannies have to have at least 2 years of childcare experience, but no formal qualifications or age limits apply. For more information have a look at the After School Nannies website, or their post on Jobs Grapevine. Check out our articles for more information on how to become a childminder.

Earn money for yourself and for charity

Become a ‘chugger’ (charity fundraiser) and do your bit for charity whilst you earn! Several charities are looking for people to stand on the street and persuade passers-by to pay monthly amounts to their charity. You can earn between £8.50-11 an hour, on average, and the work is flexible. It involves being outside and meeting people, of course, but you could get a lot of abuse from pedestrians. There are several commercial organisations that run ‘chugger’ campaigns but they keep a percentage of the money raised. Better to work direct for the charity if you would like to do this. Just a few of the organisations looking for fundraisers directly are Shelter, Concern and Everychild.

Work at a football stadium

Delaware North Companies Ltd (DNC) run a food and catering service at both Wembley Stadium and Emirates Stadium. They are looking for staff for both stadiums so you could earn some cash working at some major events at the heart of English football. Job vacancies range from bar staff to sous chef and they provide full training for all the roles. See the Hospitality Staff website for full details on DNC job profiles and how to apply.

Host and teach foreign students

Can you teach English language? If you have time on your hands and a spare room, you could host a foreign student in your own home and earn extra money giving them tuition. People needed around the country. To host and teach English in your home contact InTuition Languages on 020 7739 4411 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              020 7739 4411      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or visit their website. You could also rent your spare room out to a foreign student and get a bit of culture at the same time. Check out Idiom for a list of foreign language schools in the UK you can get in contact with, or for loads more useful information have a look at our article on hosting foreign students.

Get paid to help save the planet

If you’re an internet junkie you could earn money by joining a free Affiliate Programme with OzoneConferencing, a UK based conference services provider, who try to persuade businesses to reduce their carbon emissions by cutting down on unnecesssary travel. OzoneConferencing say they will pay £50 for every new customer you send their way and a further £5 every time a friend or colleague sends them a new customer. OzoneConferencing have a no spam policy and promise they will never ask you for money and you can unsubscribe at any time, but to be on the safe side you can set up a separate email account. Visit their website to sign up now.

Become a home tutor

If you’re a graduate, and eligible to work in the UK you could earn extra cash as a home tutor for a range of subjects and levels, usually on a one-to-one basis at the clients’ home. See London’s Learning website for details on tutoring in London or agencies like Personal Tutors for more information on nationwide tutoring. For more information on who to contact and how much you could earn, have a look at our article on earning money as a tutor.

Become a Mobile Caterer

We know what you’re thinking… horrible burger vans at cheesy events, but actually mobile catering with MJR Tom actually involves walking around at events at all the major london stadiums and football clubs, as well as stadiums around the country and all the major british racecourses, and selling whatever it is you are told to sell. MJR Tom say that the most common product they sell is beer and the most common receptacle they use is a rucksack, so you won’t be lugging around bikes with icecream freezers on them or anything.

Once you’ve got a stock of your product you can then wander around, enjoy the event and sell your product. You are paid a minimum wage base rate and then can earn commission on top of that depending how many of your product you sell, which does give you motivation to try and sell as much as possible. Most of the events are during evenings or weekends so it’s something you can do in your spare time if you work and hopefully the events themselves should be pretty enjoyable. However carrying liquids can get pretty heavy, so it’s not a job for those who haven’t got the strength to lug around a heavy load on their back. MJR Tom are always looking to recruit new staff so why not check it out?

Write a story

If you’re a budding writer, you could try your hand at writing a short story for Clonepod, who produce science fiction and fantasy podcasts from work its users send in. They’ll pay you $25 through Paypal for a 2,000 word story that they like, and they don’t ask for any rights to the work at all – which is great if you want to try selling the story over and over again. Click here to be taken to the Clonepod website.

Work at events

Promo Agency provides a directory of promotional staffing agencies for you to get in touch with and get work for anything from marketing campaigning to modeling or waiting on tables.

Earn and get free accomodation

Check out the job opportunities at Mrs Hunt’s agency; everything from housekeeping to chef duties all over the country. Probably best for those of a practical nature, and most of the time accomodation is included.

Save £££ with Direct Debit

Switch your utility bills to being paid by Direct Debit – it could easily save you over £200 a year. Npower, for example, is giving its customers who switch to Direct Debit a £100 annual discount. Just make sure you still regularly check your bills – and make sure you’re with the best value energy supplier to start with. (Use our simple comparison tool to quickly check whether you’re on the best deal).

Be a travel writer

Lonely Planet is looking for freelance writers with special knowledge of a city, country or region.You must be an experienced traveller and have professional writing experience, be able to write with authority, have excellent research and organisational skills and meet deadlines. If you have an idea for a book or book series then send details of your idea, your CV/resume, and two examples of your writing (preferably travel related) to: recruitingauthors@lonelyplanet.com.au.

NHS Secretaries – make money transcribing

If you’re a medical secretary you can make extra money by transcribing medical notes in your spare time. Companies, such as Dict8, will pay you to write up medical notes and the best bit is that you don’t even have to leave your own home, as they’ll send all the information you need to your computer. You can do as much or as little as you want, and you’re paid on a ‘per line’ basis.

Make cash from your driveway

If you don’t use your garage or driveway you could rent it out for money – particularly if you are in London or another parking-unfriendly city. Just register with Parkatmyhouse.com (it’s free), put your postcode in and wait for desperate would-be parkers to contact you.

Have your true story published

A women’s magazine is asking for true inspirational stories in a positive, non-dramatic way. The glossy mag is aimed at women aged 30 – 55 years, and wants to know if you’ve been through a hard time. If you have a story or experience that could help others, and are happy to be photographed and identified, email Features Editor Ruth Tierney at ruth.tierney@natmags.co.uk or call +44(0) 207 312 4120.

Get paid to write

Join the www.mylot.com community and earn money by using the site – start discussions, post comments, make your own blog and refer friends. The higher quality of work you publish, the more you can make. Generate discussions that engage other users and provide insightful responses to other user’s discussions.

Get paid to iron

By doing other people’s washing and ironing you can make cash when it siuts you, whilst catching up with the Eastenders omnibus! Bring in customers by putting an advert in the local paper, handing out leaflets in your local area or, for more professional advice, check out www.ironingservice.net. If you want to start up your own ironing service business you can buy a starter kit for £175 (which includes your own website, flyers, business cards, and the like). This is quite a comprehensive kit but you could probably do it cheaper yourself – see our article on setting up your own ironing service here.

Sell unwanted DVDs and CDs

You can make money selling DVDs, CDs, consoles, books and tickets at Play.com.

Find new jobs every day

The Jobsgroup website has new jobs coming in all the time. Check it out and sign up for as wide a variety of occupations as you think you might be able to fulfil. If you want to keep your identity private then you can create a new email address on hotmail for example (this is free, of course). If they ask for a C.V. up front then upload a blank word or text document.

Between September and December is the event industry’s busiest time of year. Most will be recruiting extra staff to keep up with their bookings and if you work on Bank Holidays etc. then you’re likely to make even more cash.

Jobsgrapevine is also a website that connect people who do the odd jobs with the people who needs the jobs doing people who do the odd jobs with the people who need the jobs doing. Give it a try, the registration is very simple.