Current Volunteer Opportunities
Media Trust supports organisations working on a huge range of causes. Our charity partner organisations are united in a mission to create positive change. Check out our current volunteer opportunities to see how you can get involved.
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Association for Real Change (ARC) Scotland
Support needed to identify communication goals and produce a delivery plan.
The Challenge:
- Reflect and consolidate learning from our comms and marketing activities in 2024
- Identify clear comms and marketing targets for the coming year and how to measure them.
- Coordinate routes to delivery across a small tea, with diverse portfolio, various levels of experience and no internal comms support. Involves coordinating activity through various social media channels, websites and e-bulletins.
Skills we need:
- Comms expertise and facilitation.
- Ability to support and guide the management team through the process.
What success looks like:
- Clarity of specific comms and marketing targets and ways to measure them
- Effective leadership and co-ordination of responsibilities across the team
- Increased motivation, confidence and rewards for team to engage in comms activities
- Identify the need for any on-going specialist support or L&D needs within limited budget.
Impact: We will communicate and engage more effectively with more people to:
- Share our mission and what we stand for
- Amplify the voices and experiences of disabled people
- Increase the reach and impact of our publications, films and other outputs
- Grow membership of our networks
- Attract project funds
- Sell more training.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Disability | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Digital Strategy Strategy
Internal Communications Internal comms strategy, Measuring internal comms
Marketing Campaign planning
Charity Details
We envision communities where people with learning disabilities, autistic people and others with additional support needs are included, listened to and respected. We do this by delivering training, facilitating influential national networks and influencing people with power. We engage and involve disabled people and their families as leaders and change-makers every step of the way.
Our work impacts the disabled people and family members who choose to work alongside us, the professionals who deliver support,local authorities, Scottish Government and Parliament.
Location: Scotland
Size of Organisation: Small
Website: https://arcscotland.org.uk/
Headway East London
Help create a strategy to promote Headway East London’s film
Headway East London is a brain injury charity based in Haggerston which supports over 800 people living with brain injury each year.
We need support to create a promotional strategy for our upcoming 20-minute documentary film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Kit Vincent.
The film follows the journeys of our members and gives a powerful glimpse into Headway East London, a place where the transformative power of art, music, food and above all community bring light to lives forever changed by brain injury.
We want to share the film far and wide to raise awareness about brain injury and the services that we provide.
We are looking for support in one or more of these areas:
- Planning release strategies for each platform, with target audiences and goals
- Designing a social media campaign (e.g. launch on TikTok)
- Researching and creating content for online communities – bloggers, influencers, Facebook groups
- Researching film festivals and awards to submit applications, initiate relationships with film curators and programmers
- Creating a press kit
- Supporting a broader awareness-raising campaign around the film, including sending to local MPs
We are open to working with your interests, skills and availability – get in touch if you are interested!
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Disability | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Campaign insights and optimisation, Media planning
Copywriting Copy, Copy guidelines, Editing, Proofreading, Specific audiences, Tone of voice
Digital Strategy Digital project management, Digital tools/platforms
Film, TV, and Broadcasting Editing films, Production
Marketing Campaign planning, Influencer marketing, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
PR and Journalism Campaigns, Influencer management, Reporting, Selling in press releases, Working with journalists, Writing press releases
Social Media Content creation, Content planning, Social media reporting, Social media strategy
Charity Details
Headway East London is a brain injury charity based in Hackney. We are a creative community that offers long term support to over 800 people living with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), their families and carers, from 13 London boroughs.
ABI has many different causes including strokes, meningitis, encephalitis, and brain tumours, but also injuries to the head caused by things like car accidents (known as Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI).
We empower our members (as we call our service users) to explore new identities while providing holistic, specialist support and advocate for a fairer society for people living with brain injury.
Our services include a Day Service, where our members can access occupational therapy projects, including an art studio (Submit to Love), professional kitchen, music, dance and writing workshops, and a friendly and welcoming community space; access to physiotherapy and psychotherapy; Community Support work for brain injury survivors in their home and communities, a free Casework service which helps survivors and their families navigate the complex health and social care system; Public Engagement events.
Our vision is for brain injury survivors to experience a world which is accessible to them, and where their contributions are valued and celebrated.
Location: London/Central London
Size of Organisation: Medium
Website: https://headwayeastlondon.org/
SNAPS
Event photographer: needed urgently in Leeds
Based in Leeds, SNAPS provides support to children with additional needs and their families. You can find out more about us here: www.snapsyorkshire.org.
The Superhero Challenge is our biggest fundraising event of the year, taking place on Sunday, 8th September at the John Charles Centre for Sport, Leeds, 10.30am to 12.30pm. Unfortunately our plans for photographing the event have fallen through, so we now have an urgent need!
It’s an accessible fun run event, designed to give children of all ages and abilities the chance to zoom around an athletics track and feel like a superhero for the day. There’s some more details here.
We will need images taking of families and SNAPS team members participating in the fun run and other activities. It is a very fun day with a lovely atmosphere. You don't need to be a professional with lots of experience - just someone with a decent camera and an eye for a good image!
We would like to use on our website, social media channels and for future marketing materials. Unfortunately we cannot offer payment but of course your images would be fully credited.
Please get in contact with me at sarah@snapsyorkshire.org if you're interested.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Children and Young People | Creating | Face to face
Skills requested
Photography Photographing an event/shoot
Charity Details
SNAPS is based in Leeds and provides support services for children with additional needs of all kinds, and their families. Our aim is to support the entire family by enabling the child, along with siblings, parents and other carers to participate in a shared experience of physical activity, fun and conversation in relaxed surroundings.
We provide weekly physiotherapist led hydrotherapy and rebound sessions, along with swimming, arts and crafts, dance, sign and sing, boccia, storytelling and music therapy.
Location: Yorkshire & Humberside
Size of Organisation: Small
Website: https://www.snapsyorkshire.org/
Friendly Access
SurfABLE Scotland Needs a Website Wizard! Volunteer and join the SurfABLE Crew
Want to use your website skills to make serious waves of change? SurfABLE Scotland is on the hunt for a volunteer website guru to join our crew, and yes, wetsuits are optional! 🏄♂️💻
We need someone to turn our website into a beacon of awesomeness. We're currently using WordPress (winging it a bit), and we could switch to Wix on a non-profit deal if that’s your preference. Whether it’s a site facelift, adding cool features, or just ensuring everything runs smoother than a freshly waxed surfboard, your skills can make a splash! Pop3 accounts we're sorted so just website/hosting.
Up for the challenge? Got the tech skills and a sense of humour? (no coding while catching waves unless that’s your thing!) Then come aboard, we need you!
Interested? Get in touch and let’s ride this wave together!
Make sure to check us out on our socials @surfABLEscotland and this awesome clip - https://www.tiktok.com/@gsurf1/video/7410013589970406688
#whistling #lookingupwards - we’ve marked it as needing 1-4 hours of your time to temp you in! But seriously though, we really aren't a demanding bunch and just so thankful for anything you can give to get us back on track. Sending good vibes out there.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Disability | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Website Redesign
Charity Details
Friendly Access was born after creating 'relaxed theatre performances' in mainstream theatres across the UK; performances which have subtle changes to cater for those who may require additional support.
Simply, we advocate fairness in creating an even playing field for those feeling excluded from society from disability, as we see the environment being the disabling factor, not the individual with the impairment.
We specialise in Sport, Technology, and Education.
Home to SurfABLE & SwimABLE Scotland projects. SurfABLE Scotland is the first adaptive and inclusive surf therapy project in Scotland (est. 2017 and apparently the most northerly in the world). We were also the touch paper in forming Scotland's first national para surf team in competing on the international stage, with our debut athlete reaching a semi-final place; ranking 7th in the world.
We have only 1 part-time paid member of staff and the rest made up from our awesome volunteers.
We'd love any assistance from anyone willing to offer support, Actually, it would be EPIC!
Location: Scotland
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://friendlyaccess.org
Firefly International
Social media expert needed to design strategy & launch initial meta ads
Firefly are launching our first ever public fundraising campaign with audience growth & fundraising objectives. We need a social media expert to support with the strategy development and launch of the campaign. We specifically need someone with expertise of managing a long term test and learn process, who can inform design briefs and advise on budgets etc. We would love long term support as are a small team but would be happy to receive some initial consultancy and training to get us started. Success would be growing our social media audience over a year and successfully launching a digital fundraising campaign. This could have a massive impact on the charity and our capacity to scale our projects. Firefly want to respond to the growing need of children affected by war, however, to do so we need to raise a considerable amount more money than we currently do. We think our cause and message is more relevant than ever before and that audiences are primed to want to take positive action to support children in places like Gaza - we just need some help to get in front of those people.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Media planning
Digital Strategy Strategy
Social Media Content planning, Paid social media advertising, Social media reporting, Social media strategy
Charity Details
Firefly International is a small Edinburgh based charity, for 30 years we have provided education, mental health support & peace building initiatives to children affected by war. We currently operate in Syria, Turkey (with Syrian refugees), Bosnia and Gaza. Alongside our local partners we support children living with the long-term impacts of war, those stuck in a cycle of displacement, trauma and interrupted education. We empower children with critical opportunities for children to heal, learn and build peaceful futures.
Unfortunately more and more children need our support, the world is becoming increasingly dangerous for children affected by war.
Location: Scotland
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://fireflyinternational.org/
Sight Relief (SCIO)
Social media expert to help create a marketing strategy content creation
We're a small charity based in UK that delivers free sight-saving treatment and services in remote areas of developing countries, looking for professional support in building a marketing strategy and media content creation training for staff. The aim is to achieve the following:
- Have an effective presence on Instagram, Tik Tok and LinkedIn to create brand awareness
- To have a marketing strategy and approach that reflects our culture - recognising the resource and capacity constraints. This will involve 2 of the trustees undertaking the training to be self-sufficient over time.
- We want you to be able to create impactful social media messaging across the 3 platforms that provide greater visibility of the work undertaken, to identify and increase donor participation and identify other organisations for collaboration.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Health | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Campaign insights and optimisation, Graphics, Media planning
Digital Strategy Defining requirements for projects, Digital project management, Digital tools/platforms, Selecting digital tools and platforms, Strategy
Graphic Design Brand guidelines, Editing graphics, Graphics
Marketing Campaign planning, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Influencer marketing, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
PR and Journalism Influencer management, Reporting, Writing press releases
Social Media Content creation, Content planning, Paid social media advertising, Social media reporting, Social media strategy
Website Design thinking techniques (eg: user journeys and personas), Goals in Google Analytics, Google Analytics, Google Analytics reporting, Google Analytics training, Optimisation, Optimising web forms, User experience, User interface design
Charity Details
We are a dedicated team of Scottish Pakistani heritage. We have made frequent visits to rural areas in Pakistan and were exposed to extreme levels of poverty. Experiencing the hardship that comes with visual impairment, sparked our passion to do more than just hand out financial aid.
Poor eyesight has a huge impact on our ability to function well. The most common impact we noticed was men and women not being able to work to provide for their families, children unable to see the board in schools impacting education, elderly not able to go outside without being guided or even being able to see their grandchildren due to dense cataracts. Developing cataracts will cause your sight to become cloudy and misty, however very dense cataracts cause complete vision loss. Sight is the most valuable of our five senses and this has really motivated us to help restore it.
We have brought together our skills from corporate, social, and healthcare sectors, to form Sight Relief. We not only provide sight saving eye treatment but look to build sustainability by raising awareness of general eye care and develop local screening capabilities. We aim to do this by providing training, funding, and support
Location: Scotland
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://www.sight-relief.org
Kids Club Kampala
Website support required
Kids Club Kampala is a children’s charity working in Uganda. Our mission is to support vulnerable kids in the slums of Kampala, the capital of Uganda, by providing for both their immediate needs and strengthening their futures through community outreach, protecting, educating and skilling.
We’re looking for a volunteer to support with edits required on the website (www.kidsclubkampala.org). Our programmes and the projects they encompass have recently undergone a restructure, which needs updating on the website. We already have an idea of the key pages which need updating, including the resources, branding, images and information they will now need to include, however we lack capacity within the team to make these edits ourselves.
Our hope is to improve the overall user journey on our website as at the moment some pages are hidden and are only accessible within other pages. With an improved user journey, and a clear representation of our work in Kampala, our hope is that we would achieve reduced bounce rate and increased click throughs, ultimately resulting in a higher conversion rate for donations. Improvements in all of these areas will enable us to help vulnerable children and families move from surviving to thriving.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Poverty | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Design thinking techniques (eg: user journeys and personas), Optimisation, Redesign, User experience, Copy
Charity Details
Kids Club Kampala (KCK) is a UK-registered charity and Ugandan-registered NGO founded in 2009 to help vulnerable children in the slums of Kampala, Uganda to survive and thrive. We work across 10 slum areas of Kampala: Katanga, Naguru, Namuwongo, Mbuya, Bukoto, Gayaza, Jandira, Mpigi, Kasubi and Wakiso.
We focus on meeting the immediate basic needs of children and families in the slums and empowering them to bring about long-term sustainable changes in their lives. We do this through four holistic programme areas: community outreach, protecting, educating, and skilling. Over the past 14 years, KCK has supported over 309,370 vulnerable individuals across 10 slum communities in Kampala, Uganda.
We are passionate about being locally led and have a fantastic team of over 80 staff and volunteers planning and delivering our programmes in Uganda. We are community driven, listen to our beneficiaries’ ideas and needs, and work closely with local leaders.
Our vision is:
To see children’s lives transformed, communities empowered, and poverty reduced throughout Kampala’s slums.
Location: West Midlands
Size of Organisation: Small
Website: https://www.kidsclubkampala.org/
Wild Peach Project
Social media expert needed to design content strategy for launch campaign
We're finalising a launch strategy for a new lit magazine coming out at the end of this year, and we're looking for help on the socials side to make our launch campaign as effective as possible.
What we're looking for:
- Graphic design skills
- Current knowledge of the social media landscape, especially Instagram and TikTok
- Content strategy expertise
Our goal is to reach 1,000 readers in our first month (this doesn't need to come from social media alone though, we have PR support and will share our complete strategy with you!)
We support people from disadvantaged groups to increase education attainment and pursue creative careers they may have felt weren't an option for them. Your help would be hugely beneficial in meeting our audience where they are and growing our readership, which in turn exposes more people to the opportunities available to them and helps us raise the funds needed to expand our programmes.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Social Media Content creation, Content planning, Social media strategy
Charity Details
We're a grassroots nonprofit working to close disadvantage gaps in education and the arts. Our lit magazine publishes new voices and diverse perspectives on human experiences, while our education team builds and reinforces programmes that identify opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities. We provide mentorship, resources, and expertise to help them improve their attainment.
Location: London/Central London
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://wildpeach.org
theMSguide.com
I never expected to be a YouTuber…now I need help
The channel I started has grown to become an influential voice in the global MS community.
As an MSer (33y so far) myself I am finding it increasingly difficult to manage the demands of being a solo person running a media outlet. It is scary and overwhelming at times. I love it, I want to grow it, but I have zero media background. I am winging it.
Additionally, there is a massive undertaking to raise 1m USD and it will be communicated over 1y through the channel. Cycling across Canada in 4 months on a recumbent trike starting May 2025.
Another MSer who was a filmmaker and originally involved with the Media Trust directed me here to ask for help.
Thank you.
Dominic
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Health | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Campaign insights and optimisation, Graphics
Branding Brand guidelines, Templates design
Digital Strategy Digital tools/platforms, Strategy
Film, TV, and Broadcasting Editing films, Filming, Production, Storyboarding, Storytelling
PR and Journalism Campaigns, Writing press releases
Charity Details
I am an MS patient of 33 years. In 2021 I set up a YouTube channel as a patient-to-patient resource.
It has spiralled, has in excess of 4100 subscribers and I am embedded in the MS world as a patient expert.
I write papers, go to conferences, am an Honorary Lecturer at QMUL in London but retain authenticity as a patient. I try to help other patients make MS a lesser part of their lives.
I believe that regardless of background, social status, educational level etc that everyone with MS deserves equally (good!) treatment.
Location: South East
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://www.theMSguide.com
Finance Innovation Lab
Media expertise needed to help develop and implement an effective media strategy
Communicating about the financial system, and especially finance policy & regulation, can be really tricky. The content is often complex, and seen as niche. But it plays a central role in some of the biggest problems that our society faces, including extreme inequality and the climate crisis. For better or for worse, it affects millions of lives here and around the world.
Influencing the narrative around the role of the finance, and building broader engagement and support for efforts to change the system, is really key for us. We see media as central to this.
But we don't have much in-house experience or capacity to scale up our media work.
We're looking for support to help us develop a media strategy and approach that makes sense for the capacity we have, to help us achieve our goals.
Including how we go about building relationships with journalists; approaches we should be prioritising; content we could be generating etc.
Help with writing a good strategy would be great - but then any further support to help us learn as we go with implementing it would also be hugely valuable for us.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Campaigning | Mentoring | Remote
Skills requested
PR and Journalism Campaigns, Selling in press releases, Working with journalists
Charity Details
The Finance Innovation Lab builds power to transform the financial system for people and planet.
Our financial system has become disconnected from the real needs of people, the
environment, the wider economy and society. Dysfunction in the financial system lies at the root of many of today’s challenges, from climate change and economic crises to poverty, marginalisation and inequality. It doesn’t have to be this way. People created the system – and people can change it.
We advocate for financial sector policies that promote economic and environmental justice, and we work to build the collective power of the network of groups working to improve the financial system.
Location: London/Central London
Size of Organisation: Small
Website: https://financeinnovationlab.org/
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