Arts and Crafts
E.g. Making jewellery, model-making, painting, etc.
Recent Arts & Crafts Favours
"I can make a hat that looks like a tap."
Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles
E.g. Giving lifts, deliveries, repairs, recommendations, etc.
Recent Cars, Motorcycles and Vehicles Favours
"Can you give me a lift to the Glastonbury music festival?"
Charity Items
E.g. Cycle rides, marathons, volunteering to help, etc.
Recent Charity Favours
"I can grow a moustache for Movember, Can your sponsor me?"
Clothes, Shoes & Accessories
E.g. Clothing swaps, picking up Hallowe'en costumes, loaning hats for parties, etc.
Recent Clothes, Shoes & Accessories Favours
"Can you pop by Angel's in the west end and pick my up a vampire costume?"
Computing
E.g. Mya tutorials, software recommendations, troubleshooting
Recent Computing Favours
"I can show you how to use Photoshop."
Consumer Electronics
E.g. Getting rid of a stereo, transferring film to video, recommendations about 3D HD TV's.
Recent Consumer Electronics Favours
"Can you loan me a projector for a presentation at my sister's wedding?"
Entertainment
E.g. Borrowing books, DVD box sets, exchanging cooking recipes, borrowing ice skates, skateboards, etc.
Recent Entertainment Favours
"Can you loan me the box set of 'The Wire'?"
Events
E.g. Recommending places to go for a bachelor party, borrowing a tuxedo, giving dance lessons, etc.
Recent Event Favours
"Can you help me write my Best Man speech?"
Health & Beauty
E.g. Giving yoga instruction, offering to give a massage, helping with make-up for a local production, etc.
Recent Health & Beauty Favours
"Can you suggest a good chiropractor?"
Holidays & Leisure
E.g. Asking for a couch to surf on, recommending restaurants or points of interest in a city that you are visiting, etc.
Recent Holidays Favours
"Does anyone know of a good hotel to stay in in Singapore?"
Home and Garden
E.g. Loaning and borrowing garden equipment, helping friends move house, helping assemble IKEA furniture, etc.
Recent Home and Garden Favours
"Can someone water my plants while I am away for a couple of months?"
Learning
E.g Loaning books, translating a document, teaching how to use excel spreadsheets, etc.
Recent Learning Favours
"I can start fires and tie knots, and I guess I could teach kids how to do that too."
Local Community
E.g Helping out with community projects, loaning materials to the local school for a play, recommending builders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc.
Recent Local Community Favours
"My friend James is redoing his flat in North London. Can u recommend a plumber that first radiators?"
Music
E.g. Asking for help finding sheet music, offering to give piano lessons, looking for a someone to play bass guitar in a band, etc.
Recent Music Favours
"Can you recommend which electric guitar to buy?"
Parenting
E.g. Picking up your friends children from football lessons if you are working late, child minding, passing on a pram that you are no longer using, etc.
Recent Parenting Favours
"I can give you some of the clothes my 3 year old daughter has grown out of. They are for a 12 - 18 month year old."
Photography
E.g. Offering to take pictures of your jewellery line for your website, asking recommendations for a wedding photographer, borrowing a lens for your camera, etc.
Recent Photography Favours
"Can I borrow a tripod for my CANON 450D? I want to take some night shots of the Houses of Parliament."
Shopping
E.g. Asking for recommendations for places to buy a sofa, offering to pick up some duty-free, etc.
Recent Shopping Favours
"Is anyone off to Canada soon? Can you bring me back some Maple Syrup please?"
Sport
E.g. Loaning some ski equipment, teaching your friends how to snowboard, recommending a good tennis racquet to buy, etc.
Recent Sport Favours
"I can teach you how to ski."
Toys & Games
E.g. Loaning board games to your friends, borrowing a friends XBOX or XBOX games, etc.
Recent Toys & Games Favours
"Does anyone have the game Settlers of Catan? I hear it is really good and would like to try and play it? Can I join in a game?"
Travel & Transportation
E.g. Offering to give your friends a lift, car sharing, helping a friend move house, helping a friends pick up furniture from town, etc.
Recent Travel & Transportation Favours
"Can you pick up a sizeable chair and a rug from central London and drop off to Brixton in exchange for some beers?"