New ways of making some extra cash come up all the time and we’re updating the list on our site regularly. There are so many ways to earn bit of money on the side so read on for a host of ideas to get you started.
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- NEW Make money blogging
- NEW Festival staff
- NEW Census distributors
- 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
- Become a nanny
- Earn money for yourself and for charity
- Work as a cleaner
- 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
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We’ve got 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.
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. They are currently recruiting, so if you’re interested fill out this application for summer 2009 positions and if you’re successful you’ll be contacted four weeks prior to the event. Visit the website for more info. Pay is minimum wage – but you do get free entrance to the festival and camp facility.
Every ten years, a census is held in England and Wales – during which community members are asked to fill in a questionnaire. The next one is in 2011 but they are running tests and rehearsals this year. They need people to distribute or collect sample questionnaires to households in specified areas in Birmingham, Lancaster, Newham and the Isle of Anglesey.
Distributors work either approximately 37 or 25 hours a week and rates are £10.46 per hour for part time and £9.25 for full time. Apply at www.censusjobs.co.uk.
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.
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!
Earn yourself as much as £10 an hour handing out the London Lite, or The Metro (which is distributed all over the UK). Apply here and find out more about making extra cash delivering by clicking here.
To make a bit of money on the side you could start up your own card buisness. 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.
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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
If you have a talent for writing and want to get paid for it then visit Pay Per Post. You have to submit samples and they must first be approved, but if they are you could earn as much as £10 a post.
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.
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.
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 and are accessible through born to loaf. You can earn up to £250 in shopping vouchers! We’ve also researched more online survey companies so you can earn even more money with little effort – check out our page here to explore our new recommendations. A new survey site worth checking out is www.surveyhead.com.
For those who are not interested in working big sporting or concert events but prefer more intimate food, wine or baby shows Count-me-in is a national company servicing several events, with varying jobs available it is a great way to spend a few hours earning an extra bit.
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.
Get paid £50 an hour using your voice. Subscribe with UK Voices and all you have to do is read the posted scripts that interest you into their automated job line. If you are successful, you will be on your way to recording and cash!
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.
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We all moan and groan when it comes to cleaning up our houses, but essentially, it’s something that we can all do that is more boring than difficult. If you get a strange satisfaction from seeing a carpet reappear from under lots of dust and fluff, you can easily earn some extra cash by cleaning for somebody on a part-time basis. Hours depend on the employer, but if you’ve got kids at school you can often do a couple of hours here and there whilst they’re off your hands at school. Salary is negotiable with the individual employer, but it usually varies between minimum wage and around £10 per hour. Check out sites like Gumtree and Jobsgrapevine to find vacancies in your area or to advertise your cleaning services for free.
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 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.
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 see our article on Tutoring.
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?
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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.
Jam Staffing is looking to employ people for events all over the UK. Depending on your age you’ll be starting on £5.50-£6.15/hr. It’s looking for waiters/waitresses, security, models and much more. You can apply through its website, which is www.jamstaffing.com.
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.
You can earn big bucks from being a referral agent, and Zubka is a new site that pays you to recommend friends for jobs, and helps if you need to fill a job vacancy. For example, if you place someone in a £50,000 job, Zubka’s reward to you is £3,600.
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.
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.
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.
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 dervice business you can buy a starter kit for £75.
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.
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Just wondering if there is a site like Dict8 for legal secretaries? I am in Ireland and have the system ready to go.
I love to receive the MoneyMagpie Newsletter but I wish there was something similar for Ireland!!
Regards,
Antoinette
hope there is antoinette cus i am a legal secretary looking to work a bit of extra house so if you know of one for the UK let me know.
Good Luck
Lyndsay
Hi there,
how genuine is the affiliate programme with Ozone Coferencing.
Is this for real,and how does it work.
Many thanks