When I spotted a tweet about 10 Summer Music Festivals in the USA it got me wondering. How many of those festivals would give me a free ticket if I was willing to help them out?

Festival season is gearing up. We have already mentioned volunteering is a great way to get behind the scenes and earn yourself a free festival ticket and camping pitch in the UK, but can we do this somewhere where it doesn't rain quite so much, please!

During the summer months the UK becomes the music festival capital of the world with every weekend seeing artists and acts performing at large and small events around the country. Seeing bands live at a festival can become an expensive pursuit but one guaranteed way to save money is to work for your ticket.

Majorca is one of the Mediterranean’s star attractions, and it’s easy to see why. This island boasts elusive coves, craggy mountains and eye-catching architecture, not to mention a habitat geared around not just meeting, but surpassing the expectations of its six million visitors a year. We've also added a few work exchanges for those that want to save money while staying on the island.

Today we are highlighting five work exchange hosts that can offer horse riding opportunities in New Zealand.

All across the world you will find expat and local animal lovers setting up and running their own centres to care for the area’s street dog population, abused donkeys, abandoned cats, injured birds or distressed wild animals. Big or small, domestic or wild, there are numerous places to help a creature in need and get fed and a bed at the same time.

The Churchill Fellowship is once again handing out grants to enable British, Australian and New Zealand citizens to follow their passions and travel overseas.

Juliet needs a secretary. She gets thousands of letters from around the world in many languages but cannot handle them on her own because she killed herself after her husband, Romero, committed suicide after mistakenly thinking she had.

Ukrainian members of the Workaway help exchange platform can apply to any project listed on the site but the following hosts have specifically mentioned they welcome Ukrainians displaced by the war in their homeland.