Current Volunteer Opportunities

Most local people will have seen St Mary's church, but are unaware of the opportunities, events and activities we offer, from services, community support and facilities.

Our Vicar and volunteers post regularly to Facebook including live streaming some services (Facebook 463 likes 611 followers). We take photos. We design graphics on Canva and post them to Facebook and print/copy. We share events via our notices (printed, email, Facebook (events), and free on our website and other sites - the Town Crier also promotes our events). We have a Next Door account and post to that. We post volunteer opportunities online (charity Job, Indeed, Restless, Do-it, Neighbourly etc) and fundraisers. We occasionally make the press and our Vicar recently featured in a local podcast.

We are looking for skills such as graphic design, copy and strategy skills.

We would love to increase our reach and engagement to raise awareness. The goal is for more people to attend events, book (hire) our space and get involved as volunteers to help our community etc.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Faith | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face

We have a new brand and a new website designed, we now need life breathing into it. We use WordPress and are looking for someone to bring our wireframe to the world. We are a small charity and use our website (coupled with social media) as our window to the world of young people and corporate businesses. Simply put, the better the website the more engagement we get, the more money we raise and the more disadvantaged young people we can help.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Employment and Training | Creating | Remote

We’re looking for a volunteer to design our internal and external communications strategy based on resident feedback, to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, trustees, partner organisations and the wider community. The strategy must be mindful of digital exclusion as we work with older people.

Existing resources include quarterly newsletter (paper copies), Office 365, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts (sparse existing content), website, policies on GDPR, Social Media and Media Usage and photo permissions forms. We also have come up with some survey questions and have a colleague able to conduct this survey, so surveying can be done in-house if required. 

Desirable skills include strategy design skills, consulting and survey analysis skills, and presentation skills to clearly convey the new strategy to colleagues. 

The desired outcome is a comprehensive communications strategy to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, partners, trustees and the wider community, including an outline of how we should use digital communications. 

Desired impacts: clearer and more effective communication with residents; facilitating resident access to services and social events and strengthening the community; raising awareness of TFC; strengthening our online presence to facilitate grant bids; allowing us to collaborate better with partners and volunteers; reaching more prospective residents.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Older people | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face

Communications challenge

Aspierations is looking to strengthen the autistic community by creating opportunities for meaningful conversation and sharing lived experiences. We aim to produce a podcast series featuring interviews with autistic individuals who have unique stories to tell. This podcast will not only empower the autistic audience by showcasing relatable experiences but also educate neurotypical listeners on autism-friendly communication.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a volunteer with skills in podcast production, including audio editing, storytelling, and promotion. While we have ideas for potential guests and topics, we need support to turn these (and already recorded interviews) into compelling episodes and ensure the podcast reaches the right audience.

What success looks like to us

Success for us means launching a professional podcast series that resonates with autistic listeners and engages neurotypical audiences. We’d love to see episodes shared widely, sparking conversations about autism and bridging communication gaps.

Impact you’ll have

By creating this podcast, Aspierations hopes to foster a sense of community within the autistic population and promote greater understanding and acceptance in society. This project directly aligns with our mission to amplify autistic voices and build a more inclusive world.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Employment and Training | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

The communication challenge is explaining the meaning of self-employment to young people living with a disability or who are neurodiverse through video using a good quality camera.

I'm looking a volunteer with Videography, storyboarding and storytelling skills.

Success would be a 3 minute video with a clear message of the meaning off self-employment and how it has impacted young people's lives. This video will be posted on socials, on our website and Youtube so that partners, schools, colleges, disability organisations, young people, students, parents and funders can gain insight on what we do, understand the meaning of self-employment, highlight alternative routes to earning an income and the positive impact self-employment has on lives of the young people that we serve.

Overall impact - engaging video that disabled and neurodiverse young people can understand. Demonstrate the impact how empowered trainees feel to lead independent lives. Increase the understanding of what self-employment means. Increase the We Mean Business community so that young people can increase their social skills and networks. Video to be used as a tool for funding so we can increase resources for young people. Young people learn that alternative route to earning money are achievable and increases their curiosity.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Disability | Creating | Face to face

We need to redesign our Mailchimp platform, which currently manages 400 email contacts. Each month, it sends invitations and reports for Zoom sessions, updates for Ada Court, and a quarterly newsletter.

We also need to transpose full member data from Google Sheets to enable targeted communication (e.g., disease research). Additionally, we would like to discuss the feasibility of SMS texting, design campaigns, and improve the Mailchimp web domain design: http://www.breatheasywestminster.com.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Use your PR skills to highlight the life-changing value of social care! We're looking for an experienced PR expert to help us kick start our press work and showcase the positive impact of social care on people’s lives. You’ll be pitching and securing press coverage that highlights the success stories of people we support, celebrates the role of social care and support workers, and reinforces how social care can change lives. We're looking for someone with a strong PR background who wants to use their skills to make a meaningful difference.

What you’ll do: 

• Craft messaging that highlights the value of social care and the ways it can support people’s growth, independence and community involvement.
• Help us in identifying media outlets and securing press opportunities for stories about disability, social care and inclusion.
• Create and distribute press releases and feature articles showing the impact of social care on people’s lives.

Who you’ll be:

• Someone with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on sensitive and inclusive language.
• Passionate about showing the positive impact of social care and supporting people with disabilities.
• Familiar with the issues and challenges faced by people with learning disabilities, autism, and sight loss (desirable).
• Confident about your established network of media contacts (desirable).

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote

A lovely parent at our brilliant school is running the London Marathon 2025 to raise mega-money for the school, especially for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). He has been so impressed with how our staff have helped his profoundly disabled son settle into the school and thrive that he wants to give something back.

The child is 5 years old and delightful. SEND is very much in the news now and we need a PR expert to help us make his campaign have a big reach and impact, locally, regionally in Suffolk and even nationally. Can you help?

One particular staff member here will help you, and the Headteacher and SENDCo support us fully. The ultimate aim is to get the issues in the media and to raise maximum funds for the school. 

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Children and Young People | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face

Support needed: Hillside Clubhouse is seeking a talented graphic designer to create and bring to life our branding and marketing materials.

As part of our 25th-anniversary preparations, we need updated marketing and communications templates and up to three iterations of an updated logo for board consideration. Your creative skills will help us visually communicate our mission and services to the community.

Skills required: We are looking for a volunteer with expertise in graphic design and experience in creating marketing templates. Skills in logo design and digital content creation are particularly beneficial.

Success goals: Success means developing visually compelling materials that align with our brand identity and effectively communicate our mission. We aim to enhance our community presence and attract more individuals to our services.

Impact: Your designs will help translate our mission into engaging visual content that highlights our successes and the stories of those we support, strengthening our ability to empower individuals with mental health challenges to achieve their career goals and improve their lives.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Young Citizens is a UK charity that enables schools and colleges to deliver interactive citizenship education for children and young people. From ready-made lesson plans to immersive programmes, we help educators offer engaging yet flexible learning experiences – both as part of the required curriculum and beyond.

As a small charity of fewer than 20 staff, we have a huge ambition to produce high-quality content but often lack technical resources and expertise. To capture the amazing work we do with schools, we are looking for volunteer photographers to attend occasional events and workshops.

We would love your help producing inspiring imagery for our social media, website and in-print materials. With your volunteering support, we can tell the story of our work and attract even more supporters, funding and schools service users.

All schools will have a safeguarding policy to protect their pupils, including the gathering of photographic consent from parents. We can help to arrange this consent, and will advise on best practices when conducting the photography.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Education | Creating | Face to face