Current Volunteer Opportunities

This will be our first time taking part in the Christmas Big Give, running from 2–9 December, with our campaign “Hope Behind Bars.” We have moving case studies and images ready, but we need support in shaping them into powerful stories and strong messages that inspire giving.

We’re looking for a highly skilled and driven volunteer with experience in social media strategy, storytelling, and email marketing to help us plan, write, and schedule engaging content throughout Giving Week.

Success would mean a coordinated campaign that reaches new audiences, builds excitement, and helps us raise as much as possible — with every donation doubled. This support will make a huge difference, helping us share stories of hope, connect with more supporters, and grow our impact for those we serve through Hope Behind Bars.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Legal and criminal justice | Creating | Remote

About us

Young Citizens has been delivering and designing relevant, inspiring and skills-building citizenship education for nearly 40 years, reaching over a million young people to date. As a leading provider of lessons and in-school active citizenship, we help make it possible for all state schools across the UK to deliver compelling and reliable citizenship education that empowers young people to take part in their communities, democracy and society. Through our interactive programmes and free, easy-to-use lessons, we enable schools to find the citizenship offer that fits their needs to nurture knowledgeable, inspired and active young citizens. 

About the opportunity

The Government has recently committed to backing citizenship education in the curriculum, including making it mandatory in primary schools and expanding its scope across all age groups. We want to capitalise on this and help even more schools access our work. To do this, we need support to tell our story and demonstrate our impact. That's why we are looking for a volunteer copywriter. Can you write for a range of different audiences? Can you influence readers with a compelling story whilst meeting a tight brief? We'd love to hear from you!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Education | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

About us

Young Citizens has been delivering and designing relevant, inspiring and skills-building citizenship education for nearly 40 years reaching over a million young people to date. As a leading provider of lessons and in-school active citizenship, we help make it possible for all state schools across the UK to deliver compelling and reliable citizenship education that empowers young people to take part in their communities, democracy and society. Through our interactive programmes and free, easy-to-use lessons, we enable schools to find the citizenship offer that fits their needs to nurture knowledgeable, inspired and active young citizens. 

About the opportunity

The Government has recently committed to backing citizenship education in the curriculum, including making it mandatory in primary schools and expanding its scope across all age groups. We want to capitalise on this and help even more schools access our work. To do this, we need support to tell our story and demonstrate our impact. That's why we are looking for graphic design support in both print and digital formats. Are you a dab hand with Canva or Adobe Creative Cloud? Can you follow a brief whilst bringing your own creative style? We would love to hear from you!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Education | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

On 19th November, Young Citizens is running The Big Democracy Conversation, a panel discussion with Alastair Campbell and our young ambassadors to launch a new national teaching campaign. The evening will focus on how we action the support schools need to deliver democratic education, centred on civic skills and literacies that build confidence to engage. We will hear from young people on how they see their stake in society, institutional trust and what they need to feel confident to participate in democracy and elections.

Event details

Wednesday 19th November 2025, 6.00 - 8.30 PM

Venue: London, EC4M

We would like to capture video content during the event to document proceedings, whilst creating evergreen content for our communications channels. You will help us capture interviews and interactions with attendees. This will include young people, MPs, staff and other delegates. Professional video equipment is desired, but we also welcome mobile-based videographers and creators. With your support, we can ensure the smooth running of the event whilst telling our charity's story.

Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you!

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Creating | Face to face

On 19th November, Young Citizens is running The Big Democracy Conversation, a panel discussion with Alastair Campbell and our young ambassadors to launch a new national teaching campaign. The evening will focus on how we action the support schools need to deliver democratic education, centred on civic skills and literacies that build confidence to engage. We will hear from young people on how they see their stake in society, institutional trust and what they need to feel confident to participate in democracy and elections.

Event details

Wednesday 19th November 2025, 6.00 - 8.30 PM

Venue: London, EC4M

We will be inviting press contacts to the event, and would like a volunteer with some PR experience to help us manage any broadcasters or journalists wishing to cover proceedings. You may help photographers/videographers to get the right shots whilst ensuring all safeguarding guidelines are followed. You may also guide journalists to get comments from the right people at the right time. With your support, we can help to keep the event running smoothly whilst telling our story. We'd love to hear from you!

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Creating | Face to face

We have identified that we need a 2-minute video that introduces what we do to use on our website, socials and PR. We need a skilled filmmaker to create a film that will engage viewers and encourage them to take ‘2 minute’ actions.

Success for us would be having a film that speaks to diverse urban youth with the need to protect ocean health and to inspire them to take small, achievable 2 minute actions towards that positive end. This would highlight that doing good for the planet can take a small, simple action; everyone has 2 Minutes. And those 2 minutes can look different for different people, but they are all worthwhile.

This would be an important step in engaging with the next generation and also representing them, creating a virtuous circle. In turn, this would increase our reach on socials and hopefully engage more individuals to take 2 minute actions, thereby eliciting greater collective and positive change.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Environment | Creating | Face to face

BID is an independent charity working to end immigration detention in the UK through legal advice, representation, and advocacy.

We seek communications support to grow our capacity, create our social media strategy, improve our website user experience, and enhance our email marketing and supporter engagement.

We don’t expect a volunteer to take on all of these areas, but to contribute their expertise where it’s most relevant.

With only one part-time Communications and Fundraising Manager, we need skilled volunteer input in strategy development, Mailchimp template design and configuration, and media outreach.

Success for us would mean a clear, consistent communications approach that grows our audience, increases engagement, and drives more people to join our mailing list or support our cause.

Strengthening our communications will help us reach people in detention with vital legal information and build wider public support to end the injustice of immigration detention.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Human Rights | Creating | Face to face

We are looking for a filmmaker to film and edit a short film telling the history and stories of St Andrew’s Hospice over the past 40 years to show at celebratory events in 2026.

We would also like a suite of shorter clips from the film that can be shared on social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) throughout the year too.

The short film would translate the history of the hospice into easy-to-digest, engaging content. It would show how we fundraise, how our income is spent, as well as stories from patients and families we have supported throughout the years - showing the impact the hospice has on the local community.

It would be shown at a number of celebratory events taking place throughout 2026, including a Thanksgiving Service on 26th April 2026, to say thank you to the local community who have supported and fundraised for the Hospice over the last 40 years, as well as encourage others to help fund our services for the next 40 years and beyond.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Face to face

In the last 20 years, our charity has developed and expanded what we offer, but our name hasn't evolved with us. It uses outdated language, doesn't communicate our purpose or the communities we serve and now restricts our growth as it's unclear who our services are for.

We need help deciding on a new charity name! We’re looking for expert support with idea generation and guidance to choose a new name that's clear, impactful, visible and fits our mission, audience, and language funders respond to.

We have plenty of ideas and insight into what our name should convey, but lack marketing expertise. Expert advice will help us achieve a clear, well-understood name change, that maintains the trust of our current beneficiaries but gives us improved visibility and inclusivity to new beneficiaries.

It will strengthen our credibility, open new funding opportunities, and improve our recognition as a professional charity, who listens when change is needed and continues delivering valuable work.

Alongside this we will change from Charitable Trust to CIO; updating our governing document with updated language for the neurodivergent conditions of beneficiaries. This is a HUGE change and a big step for us so we want to do this right!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Disability | Mentoring | Remote

We're looking for a creative resource to help us build out our Christmas Campaign. We have several pieces of UGC from families impacted by NKH (photos and videos) that we'd like to pull together into a cohesive campaign.

Deliverables include a video (or even just graphics for the video) for both social and web, and images that can be used on social, web, and in our newsletter. We're looking for someone with creative or graphic design skills to help us elevate our campaign.

We hold two campaigns a year, and Christmas is one of them. The British public are expected to give an estimated £2.8 billion to charities during November and December this year, according to the Charities Aid Foundation, and as a micro charity (we're small, but we're mighty!), even a Christmas Crumb has a huge impact on the support we can provide. The aim of this campaign is to generate donations.

We're the only charity in the UK that supports children and families impacted by NKH by providing health information, funding research, and connecting communities. NKH is a really brutal disorder in children, and it's heartbreaking and isolating for families. We'd really like to make a difference, but we really need your help.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote