Current Volunteer Opportunities

ZERO Carbon Guildford is looking for a professional photographer and videographer to help launch our new ZERO Heroes campaign, celebrating the volunteers who make our charity possible. Developed with the support of Joe Public Advertising Agency, the campaign uses authentic storytelling to inspire more local people to volunteer and support our work.

We're looking for someone to capture natural portraits, candid moments and short video clips of around 5 to 6 volunteers from a range of projects. The style should feel warm, genuine and human rather than polished or staged. We'll provide a clear creative brief, locations, schedule and shot list, with creative direction on the day.

Location: The shoot will take place in and around Guildford town centre, with exact locations to be agreed with the volunteer as part of the planning process.

Travel expenses: Any reasonable travel expenses incurred while volunteering will be covered by the charity.

The photography and video will create a long-lasting content library for our website, social media, volunteer recruitment, fundraising and membership campaigns.

What success looks like

Success for us is a collection of authentic content that celebrates our volunteers, encourages others to get involved, and helps local people see that anyone can make a difference. By supporting this project, you'll help us inspire more people to take positive action in their local community.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Environment | Creating | Face to face

Community Southwark is the umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in Southwark. We support charities and community groups with advice, training and volunteers, helping them thrive and create positive change across the borough. Our Volunteering Team aims to encourage Southwark residents to volunteer.

We are looking for a volunteer to build a practical communications strategy that inspires more people to volunteer in Southwark. We already have a trusted local brand, an established volunteering platform and a wealth of inspiring volunteer stories, but we need support to bring these together into a clear plan for social media, newsletters and other communications that a small team can deliver.

We're looking for someone with experience developing communications strategies. If you wanted to create visual assets templates for our communications platforms, we would welcome that, but it’s not essential.

Success would be a practical communications strategy with clear ways to reach our audiences, measure impact and increase engagement with our volunteering opportunities. By helping more people discover volunteering, you'll support local charities to recruit the volunteers they need and help more Southwark residents experience the benefits of volunteering.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Community | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Wayward Plants is looking for a volunteer photographer and filmmaker who can begin immediately to help document an ambitious propagation project at the Barbican Conservatory.

Ahead of the Conservatory's major renewal project, we are working with the Barbican's horticultural team to propagate thousands of cuttings. These will be cared for at the Wayward Plants Reuse Centre before being made available through a series of public plant adoption events at the Barbican.

This is a rare opportunity to access parts of the Conservatory that are not normally open to the public.

We're looking for:

• A photographer to produce a clear and beautiful visual record of each of the approximately 25 plant species being propagated, alongside documentary photography capturing the people, setting and behind-the-scenes process.
• A filmmaker to document the cuttings taken at the Barbican and the propagation process at the Wayward Plants Reuse Centre.

The resulting photography and films will support plant identification and interpretation, press activity, social media and the long-term documentation of the project.

Thank you for your consideration!

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Environment | Creating | Face to face

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we need support redesigning our current WordPress website into a modern platform that streamlines our user experience and boosts campaign engagement.

We already have an in-house IT Manager to lead the project, but we face a technical bottleneck in deciding whether to build the new site using Themeco's X Theme or the Elementor page builder. We need a volunteer with deep, hands-on development expertise in both specific ecosystems who can objectively evaluate their trade-offs regarding site speed, long-term maintenance, and ease of future content updates.

Success looks like making a definitive, well-architected framework choice and successfully launching a fast, mobile-responsive website that clearly honors our 20-year milestone and converts visitors into active supporters. Ultimately this redesign will translate our history of impact into an accessible digital home, making it easier for the community we serve to find vital resources and empowering us to fundraise effectively for the next 20 years.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

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

About SameYou

SameYou is a small but ambitious charity working to develop better mental health recovery pathways for survivors of brain injury and neurological conditions. We champion lived experience, amplify patient voices, and collaborate with partners to drive change in rehabilitation and mental health support.

We're looking for a skilled volunteer copywriter to help us deliver a defined Survivor Stories project by transforming lived experience narratives into compelling, engaging stories for publication on our website. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution while helping ensure each story is told with dignity, sensitivity and authenticity.

The project could involve supporting the production of a series of survivor stories over an agreed project period. Together, we'll agree the scope and timescale at the start of the project.

Key responsibilities

• Transform survivor stories into engaging narratives while preserving each individual's authentic voice and lived experience.
• Ensure all storytelling follows ethical, consent-based principles and protects the dignity, agency and voice of contributors.
• Refine and structure copy to improve clarity, flow and readability without changing the meaning of the experiences being shared.
• Ensure content aligns with SameYou's brand, mission and messaging.
• Work collaboratively with the SameYou team to complete the agreed project.

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent narrative storytelling and copywriting skills.
• Understanding of ethical, consent-based storytelling, particularly around health or lived experience.
• Strong editing, structuring and tone adaptation skills.
• Confidence using communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, NationBuilder or similar.
• Ability to write with clarity, empathy and consistency.
• Comfortable working independently within a small charity environment.

Desirable

• Experience interviewing people with lived experience or vulnerable groups.
• Experience writing across a range of formats, including case studies, campaign messaging and long-form content.

By supporting this project, you'll help ensure powerful lived experience stories reach wider audiences, raising awareness and helping improve support for survivors of brain injury and neurological conditions.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Health | Creating | Remote

Communication Volunteer:

ECPAT UK is seeking a volunteer podcast editor to support the production of a new podcast series focused on issues related to child exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery. The role will involve editing approximately three hours of recorded audio and shaping it into 3–4 engaging, high-quality podcast episodes. The volunteer will be responsible for cleaning and enhancing audio, structuring episodes in line with a provided brief, and ensuring consistency in sound and tone across the series. This includes applying branding elements and ensuring the final episodes are polished and ready for publication.

Key requirements:

• Experience with audio editing
• Familiarity with Adobe audio editing software and Audacity
• Ability to follow briefs and directions provided prior to editing
• Strong organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to estimate editing time for tasks

Desirable:

• An understanding of the sector we work in, including child exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery

Benefits of volunteering with us:

• Access to training on safeguarding, child exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery
• Flexible, fully remote volunteering
• Volunteering opportunities in other areas of ECPAT UK

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

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

We are looking for somebody to update our volunteer handbook. This is given to all volunteers at Sheffield Mencap and Gateway - we have around 100 volunteers a year. We have an existing booklet, but it is now out of date and not very user-friendly. We are looking for someone to edit and update the content and design according to our brand guidelines.

Skills required: Writing and editing

We would love to get a handbook that's helpful and engaging for our volunteers, as well as being modern and will hopefully encourage more people to come along and volunteer. We rely on volunteers at Sheffield Mencap and Gateway, and we want to make sure we support them as much as they support us.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote

Maytree is the UK's only residential charity supporting adults experiencing an acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model.

Following our reopening in 2024, we are seeking support from an advertising agency to develop a compelling fundraising campaign that raises awareness, inspires action and helps secure long-term financial sustainability for our service. While Maytree has a powerful story and a strong reputation among some professional networks, we currently lack the specialist creative expertise to translate this into a memorable public campaign that emotionally connects with potential donors.

We are looking for support with campaign strategy, creative concepts, messaging and the development of assets that could be used across digital, social and print channels.

Success would look like a distinctive fundraising campaign that clearly communicates the life-saving impact of Maytree, increases public awareness, grows individual giving and strengthens relationships with supporters, funders and corporate partners. We would also like the campaign to establish a clear and consistent narrative that positions Maytree as an essential part of the suicide prevention landscape.

Ultimately, increased fundraising will allow us to support more people experiencing acute suicidal distress and ensure fewer people fall through the gap between emergency intervention and community-based support.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Maytree is the UK’s only residential charity supporting adults in acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model. Since reopening in 2024, we are rebuilding awareness of our service and need support to develop a clear, sustainable social media strategy and impactful campaigns that explain our role within suicide prevention.

Our small team currently creates ad hoc content and undertakes outreach, but we lack specialist communications capacity. We are seeking a volunteer with experience in social media strategy, campaign planning, content creation, audience segmentation and digital storytelling. We particularly need help communicating stories of hope and impact safely, while maintaining confidentiality and sensitivity around suicide.

Success would include a 12-month social media strategy, clear messaging for key audiences, a practical content calendar and campaigns that increase engagement with NHS services, mental health professionals, supporters, volunteers and potential funders. We also hope to strengthen referral pathways and build our team’s confidence to manage social media effectively.

Ultimately, this work will help more people know Maytree exists, enabling adults in acute suicidal distress to access compassionate support when they need it most.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Maytree is the UK’s only residential charity supporting adults in acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model. Since reopening in 2024, we recognise that our website is too complex and does not clearly serve our two key audiences: people who need help and people who want to give help.

We are seeking a volunteer with expertise in website design, user experience, information architecture and digital storytelling to help us create a simpler, more accessible and compassionate website. The redesigned site should make it easy for visitors to find the right information, whether they are seeking support, making a referral, donating, volunteering or exploring partnership opportunities.

Our small team can provide content, organisational knowledge and key messages, but we need specialist support to improve structure, navigation, messaging and calls to action. Success would be a modern, intuitive website with two clear user journeys, stronger engagement and a design our team can maintain.

Ultimately, this work will help more people find life-saving support and enable more supporters, volunteers and partners to contribute to Maytree’s mission.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face