Current Volunteer Opportunities

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

The autistic community is not really functioning as a community. Its members are not good at conversing amongst themselves and therefore find it difficult to communicate outside their community.

Aspierations seeks someone who will help them produce and promote a podcast series featuring interviews with autistic individuals with a story to tell. 

The autistic audience will benefit from hearing from other autistic individuals and a neurotypical (normative thinking) audience will get an insight about how to communicate in a more autism-friendly way.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Employment and Training | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

What will you be doing?  

One of our strategic goals is to grow our social media followers as this is a vital channel for us to recruit students onto our programmes. We've been stagnant on Instagram for about a year, although we are seeing better results on our recently launched TikTok channel. We now want to engage influencers to amplify our voice. This is a completely new area for us and we would value advice on how to implement a cost-conscious influencer strategy. You will work with the CEO and Marketing Officer on this project. Our existing knowledge of this area is non-existent so we are open to the role flexing if you identify other factors that we should be addressing to achieve the desired outcome.  

What are we looking for? 

Social media, marketing, influencer marketing. This will be a learning experience for us, so we need a strong communicator who is comfortable explaining and teaching us how to move forward. 

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Education | Mentoring | Remote

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

We have been approached by a family who are passionate about the impact our support has had on them. They want to help promote our service to funders so that we can support more families the way we have helped them.

We want to create a short film with this family (no more than 5 minutes) that we can use on social media, on our website, at events, and directly with funders. We are looking for a volunteer who can position this family's story for maximum impact while ensuring that the key message is empowering and strengths-based.

The skills we are looking for in a volunteer are:

• filmmaking and editing
• storytelling
• empathy

We would like the filmmaker to first meet with the family to build trust and rapport. We will then meet again to storyboard, developing key themes for the film. Filming would take place in the family home, and a rough edit would then be shared with the family for us to agree on a final cut together.

Advice about the final release of the film for maximum impact would also be much appreciated to maximise potential fundraising and generate further support for our charity (e.g., through volunteering).

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Face to face

We are updating our Money Course (www.themoneycourse.org) which is a free money skills workshop that we run in our branches and also online via Zoom. Alongside exercises, discussions etc, we use video clips to transmit some of the main teaching points. 

The videos were initially recorded by our Chief Exec during lockdown, but we would like to re-record them, partly to feature speakers who better represent the attendees of our courses (a broader range of demographics etc), and also to allow us to include more / updated content so that the Money Course is up to date and relevant to all our attendees.

We'd ideally love to shoot the videos (script will be provided) with actors for a day, but also happy for that to be done in bits if easier for the volunteers.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Advice | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are a small mental health charity, based in the south west, that provides specialist therapy, wellbeing services, crisis support, groups, and skills courses for survivors of trauma and those in mental health crisis. We are looking for some graphic design assistance as we need to create a new design for our charity collection bucket labels.

We have recently re-branded and have a new logo and brand guidelines, as well as a template/dimensions for the bucket labels. Templates are available in EPS, AI or PDF and ideally the label should be designed using professional design software. Assets are currently saved in Canva but can be shared elsewhere too.

We have our first ever street collection booked at the end of November. An eye-catching design will be the first thing that attracts members of the public to our cause, which will hopefully lead on to a conversation and/or donation in support of the charity. We will also be able to use the bucket labels for all future marketing and fundraising events, making a real difference to our branding.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote

We are looking to launch our new community radio station in the first half of 2025. We need to develop an engaging and professional launch plan which will firmly establish us in the minds of local people, local community groups, businesses, and public sector organisations.

We are seeking someone with experience in launching services, particularly within the charity/non-profit sector. We hope to find someone with a range of skills, but especially in marketing and public relations. We have volunteers with communication, digital marketing, and event management skills who are ready to support this initiative.

Success would be a successful launch event that creates a buzz across the local area, garners significant media and social media coverage, and engages local people through a positive and impactful event or series of events. This will firmly establish the new radio station as a community asset, increase listeners, and provide airtime for local community groups. Additionally, it will help us recruit more volunteers and increase our income through advertising and sponsorship.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Young Citizens is looking to create engaging video content for its website and social media channels to attract volunteers, donors and corporate partnerships. The focus will be on creating inspiring case studies and service-user stories. We want to communicate the impact of our work on children, young people and volunteers to secure more supporters.

Our comms team can write interview questions and conduct the interviews but lacks the gear and know-how to capture high-quality audio and video.

Success would look like a short videos or series of videos ready for use on all social media channels (LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo). Here is a recent example produced by a kind volunteer.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Creating | Face to face