Current Volunteer Opportunities

We are a new organisation, with a great back story launching at an exciting event in Cardiff. We’d love to capture the event and come away with a set of photos that we can use to communicate our story, share on our socials/website & put in our future publicity materials. Ideally, you’ll be a skilled photographer with your own equipment and happy working in a busy event environment. The event is taking place in Cardiff on the evening of 2nd April.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Face to face

We are a new organisation (but with a great back story). We want help to get us started in social media, help us build online communities and set us on the right track. The platforms we intend to use (but we’ll listen to your advice) are Instagram, LinkedIn, BlueSky. You will help us make sure we set things up right from the start to maximise exposure to the right audiences. Help us with content creation, planning & strategy.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Children and Young People | Mentoring | Remote

Our short-term project, ideally running from May, involves two key elements:

1. Designing Our ESOL Handbook: We've developed a handbook to support our beneficiaries' language-learning journey and goal-setting. Currently, in Word format, we need assistance in professionally designing and formatting it for an official launch with our new academic cohort in September.
2. Developing a Brand Identity: We want to establish a cohesive visual identity so our external communications are clear, engaging, and professional. We would like support in creating a brand style guide (colours, fonts, logo usage, etc.) and designing a few social media templates.

We are looking for someone with experience in:

• Branding and visual identity development
• Print and digital document design
• Social media template creation
• Understanding accessible design for diverse audiences is a bonus!

By supporting Beyond the Page, you will:

• Make a Tangible Impact to our work: Your expertise will directly enhance the resources and materials that support women's language learning and integration into the community.
• Contribute to Change: We are a small but mighty team dedicated to empowering women and fostering intercultural understanding in a coastal community in Kent.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Refugees and Migrants | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

At Tailored Futures, we support people with criminal records in rebuilding their lives through employment and reintegration. However, our biggest challenge is communicating our impact effectively to reach more people, challenge stigma, and engage employers.

We need support in crafting compelling digital content that showcases our work, including our groundbreaking app, Reintegrate, which connects ex-offenders with fair job opportunities. We are looking for volunteers with skills in content creation, storytelling, videography, digital marketing, and social media strategy to help us refine our messaging, create engaging visuals, and improve our online presence.

Specifically, we need support in developing social media campaigns, designing impactful marketing materials, and producing short videos that highlight real success stories. Success for us means clear, engaging content that increases awareness of our work, encourages employers to sign up for Reintegrate, and inspires more people to support our mission.

The right volunteer will help us translate our impact into stories that resonate, making it easier for us to change public perceptions, build partnerships, and reach those who need us most. Your media skills can help us open doors for people who need a second chance.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Legal and Criminal Justice | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Special Olympics Wales is looking for a talented graphic designer to help us create logos and promotional leaflets for our clubs across Wales, following Special Olympics International branding guidelines. These materials will help us promote our programmes, attract new athletes and volunteers, and strengthen our identity within local communities.

We already have branding resources and guidelines in place, but we need a creative volunteer with graphic design experience to bring them to life. We are looking for someone skilled in logo design, leaflet layout, and visual storytelling, with experience using design tools like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Canva.

Success for us means a set of professional, eye-catching logos and leaflets that clearly communicate our mission and make our clubs instantly recognisable. These materials will ensure athletes, families, and volunteers feel part of a strong, inclusive community while also helping us engage with new supporters.

This project will have a direct impact on people with intellectual disabilities, giving them a sense of belonging and pride in their local Special Olympics club. It will also help us grow awareness, increase participation, and ultimately change lives through the power of sport.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Sport | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Gresham College is seeking an experienced social media professional to support our Communications Team with a comprehensive social media review. We are looking for someone to facilitate a stock-take and brainstorming session with our staff and key stakeholders, followed by in-depth analysis, to identify new strategies we can trial in the coming months. This will inform the development of an enhanced, longer-term digital strategy to be implemented later this year.

We already have a strong social media presence, leveraging event announcements and video clips from our diverse lecture programme, supported by an experienced in-house AV team. However, we are eager to explore fresh approaches to engagement and digital outreach.

Founded in 1597 by Sir Thomas Gresham, Gresham College has been providing free, university-level education for over four centuries. Our distinguished history includes connections to the scientific revolution through figures such as Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren and ties to the founding of the Royal Society.

Today, we continue Sir Thomas’s vision—stimulating intellectual curiosity, championing academic excellence, and promoting freedom of thought. Each academic year, we host over 100 public lectures and maintain an extensive archive of over 3,000 videos, available at www.gresham.ac.uk.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Mentoring | Face to face

The communication challenge

Although we are part of the Citizens Advice network in England and Wales, it is not widely known that we are an independent local charity with responsibility for raising our own income and securing our future financial stability. In the current fiscal climate with its squeeze on public spending, we are keen to attract further funding sources to ensure our crucial work within the community continues to survive and grow.

Who we are looking for

We need a professional filmmaker to help us produce a short promotional video (2 minutes max) to showcase our work to potential funders and the wider community. The video will be an important visual aid in promoting a better understanding of what we do, who we help and how. Although primarily it will be used to secure extra funding it will also be used in our ongoing recruitment drive for volunteers. We will identify a variety of clients whom we have successfully helped and are willing to talk about their personal journey and the impact it’s had on their lives. We will also work with you to produce a compelling human interest storyboard. 

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Advice | Creating | Face to face

We are looking to film some of the employment partners we work with, to create an engaging and persuasive short film, showcasing the benefits of our work, especially to employers. The film will be available on our website and Youtube channel once it is finished. We are looking for someone who would be able to undertake the filming and editing of these clips. We are hopeful that at the end we would have an excellent resource to try and persuade nervous potential employers of the benefits of taking on our clients. We hope that this would mean increased opportunities for our clients, so increased employment numbers overall.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Disability | Creating | Face to face

We want to reach a million girls in the next five years and we can't do that without a strong marketing strategy in place. Although we have a lot of content, ideas and plans we need a marketing expert to help bring that to life and to help with our outreach. Being that our festivals are aimed at 7-11 year olds our main audience when we're marketing is adults (parents, teachers etc).

We hope to work with someone who can:

• Create a marketing strategy to allow for growth in all areas of our non-profit
• Create a social media strategy and advise/ help with content
• Support with tailoring messages for different audiences such as parents / carers and potential sponsors / partners
• Deepen our understanding of our audience needs and support with creating specific copywriting and marketing materials
• Support/understanding with working with paid advertising and how it might benefit us

Success would be measured by improved marketing materials and clearer communication, helping to reach more parents / carers / teachers and diversify funding.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

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

We are looking for volunteering support from a creative photographer who can take inspiring photos of our performers and artists with learning disabilities to help promote an upcoming production. The photos will be used on our website, on social media, on posters and flyers and email marketing materials, for press releases and for the programme for the production, which will celebrate different cultures from around the world.

You will have experience taking promotional photos or action shots. This project would help us attract audiences to our upcoming production from the local community and further afield. It will help us create a record of the event which will live permanently on our website and will allow our performers and artists with learning disabilities and their parents and carers to reminisce about their achievements.

Good quality photos will also help in promoting our organisation to funders and donors while raising the profile of disability arts as a genre.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Disability | Creating | Face to face