Current Volunteer Opportunities
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Rooted Finance
Social Media Expert needed to grow new project social media platforms
We're seeking a dynamic volunteer Social Media Expert to amplify our new project, "Equity in Finance," aiming to expose and dismantle the "ethnicity premium" – the direct and indirect extra costs for financial goods and services paid by individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds. This initiative, led by Rooted Finance and Money A+E, is an ambitious, evidence-based campaign to identify and address systemic, cultural, and structural barriers to financial access.
Our challenge: expanding our social media presence post our recent parliamentary launch. We've opened project specific Instagram and Twitter/X accounts, and they are needing strategic growth. We want to build connection with supporters, financial service providers, statutory bodies, funders, race equity groups and community organisation through compelling and creative content.
We need expertise in social media platform building, content creation, and storytelling. Success means a thriving social media presence, with adaptability for wider partnership use, featuring inspiring visual and written content, through storytelling.
Your focus will drive follower growth, engagement, and partner connections. Having awareness and understanding of charities, racial justice and finance sector would be useful.
This support will directly enhance our project's impact, fostering the movement for racial justice in finance.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Advice | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Copywriting Copy, Specific audiences
Marketing Storytelling
House of Wayward Plants
Social Media Strategy needed for non-profit design practice and reuse initiative
2026 marks 20 years of Wayward (www.wayward.co.uk)—our community-centered, non-profit design practice—and 10 years as the Official Reuse Partner of the RHS. This year, we’re launching the House of Wayward Plants Creative Reuse Centre with its own dedicated website.
We have so much great content from two decades—photos, films, drawings, and more—plus new projects. However, we’ve done little on social media and now want to amplify our reach and impact. We’re overwhelmed by how to share 20 years of amazing work alongside new content. We're also planning a “Wayward Plants” campaign, encouraging social media followers to apply to adopt a plant, tied to live events.
We need strategic advice on structuring and releasing everything. Should we unleash our entire backlog at once? Some older projects have hundreds of images—how many do we show? When and how often should we post, and in what formats? Our heads are spinning!
Helping us develop a strategy, alongside advice on what tools we should use to create, schedule and post content, would be a major help. (This might be a "quick fix" or more "focussed help" - we're open and grateful for whatever you can offer!)
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Environment | Mentoring | Remote
Skills requested
House of Wayward Plants
Website Designer Needed for our House of Wayward Plants Reuse Centre
After nearly a decade as the Official Reuse Partner of the RHS, rehoming tens of thousands of plants each year to community groups and schools, we are launching the House of Wayward Plants Creative Reuse Centre. This is the next step in our story. We're building the infrastructure to repurpose plants, trees, and salvaged construction materials year-round from horticultural and building industries, supporting a sustainable circular economy that will transform green spaces across London.
We need a new Drupal-based website to reach industry partners, community groups, schools, and the wider public. It will also serve as the front-end to a CRM so we can match material donations to community green spaces.
In spirit, this site should be fun, engaging, and impactful. We have developed the content and have a clear vision for how we want the site’s information structured. We also have an established design language on our current site and in our pitch materials, which we plan to extend.
Because it must be a Drupal site to work with the CRM, there are no ready-made solutions. We are looking for a designer to help create a strong design language that can then be handed to a developer.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Environment | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Redesign
House of Wayward Plants
Filmmaker Needed to Document our Plant Reuse Initiative at Chelsea Flower Show!
Background: Wayward and the RHS have partnered for nearly a decade through our House of Wayward Plants initiative, repurposing thousands of plants, trees and materials from the Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court. So far, we’ve rehomed 100,000 plants to 1,000+ community groups and schools, diverting 400 tonnes of waste from landfills.
This summer, we’re launching the House of Wayward Plants Reuse Centre at Cultivate Colindale, a 4,000m2 meanwhile space bringing together sustainability, culture, community and nature in one of London’s most deprived areas.
In 2026, Wayward celebrates its 20th anniversary, alongside a decade of the RHS Reuse Scheme. We’re planning a major campaign, exhibition and a showcase at Chelsea.
What we need: We’re seeking a filmmaker for the May 2025 Chelsea Flower Show reuse initiative, documenting volunteers, the show itself, and the plants’ journey to our Reuse Centre, then out to schools and community groups across London.
Footage will be used as short-form social media stories and as exhibition content for our 2026 exhibitions.
We’re also open to a larger documentary, exploring plant journeys and community connections in more depth, with potential joint funding. If this resonates, or if you know collaborators who might be interested, please let us know!
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Environment | Creating | Face to face
Skills requested
Sustainable Food Norwich
Social media expert needed to support setting up LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram
We started as a partnership, and we are now also a CIC. We're relatively new, and we don’t yet have a social media presence. We recognise that to reach new partners, connect more easily with our communities, share our knowledge, let people know about events and opportunities, and show funders what we’re up to, this needs to change.
We’ve identified that LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook will be most useful for us. I’ve never used any of these with any proficiency, and I could use some support getting our platforms set up. To be honest, in my limited experience, I’ve found these platforms unwieldy and frustrating.
I’m looking for someone to coach me rather than set things up for me so that when we’re done, I have the confidence to navigate these platforms and use them effectively.
What will success look like? We’ll have all three platforms set up. I’ll know how to navigate them, make posts/updates and navigate them with confidence. I’ll also have a sense of how to plan content, possibly by using something like Linktree or Metricool. Of course, I'd be very happy to write a recommendation or testimonial for your support.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Environment | Training | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Sentinus
Video Editor needed for our Digital Futures project advertising
We are looking for someone to create a fun, engaging video to advertise our Digital Futures programme. At Sentinus, our aim is to give all young people across Northern Ireland the opportunity to engage with STEM.
Our Digital Futures programme is aimed at young people aged 11-14 and helps them understand how digital media and, in particular, computer programming now underpins business development and success in Northern Ireland and internationally. Teams develop a business concept, including a prototype app to present to a panel of experts at a semi-final. The top six teams progress to compete in the Northern Ireland final, and the winning team is then offered the opportunity to travel to New York to visit technology companies and pitch their idea.
We would love for someone to take the photos and videos from this year's trip and create engaging video content to encourage schools to take part in the next season. We are hoping to encourage more teachers to sign up, with more students taking part.
Digital Futures is an incredible opportunity for young people to develop a huge range of skills, we just need help sharing the programme!
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Education | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Ability Housing Association
Experienced professional needed to help formulate Marketing Strategy
Our communications challenge is determining what channels are the most effective in delivering our current messaging and how we can maximise impact using current resources: a website (not accessible), printed twice-yearly tenant magazine social media pages (currently dormant). These are managed by our resident engagement lead and an external website administrator who also designs and writes some copy. In addition, we need to consider future requirements and potential resource implications.
We're looking for someone with the experience to advise us on what questions we need to be asking of ourselves and the technical knowledge to translate that into an effective plan for delivery including to a diverse customer group with a range of support and communication needs.
Success will mean having a marketing strategy with a clear plan to deliver achievable goals with limited resources.
This piece of work would set us on course to communicate more effectively with tenants, their families and carers but also ensure key stakeholders understand how they can or do contribute to improving the lives of Ability customers.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Disability | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing strategy
Website Design thinking techniques (eg: user journeys and personas), Redesign, User experience
AWA DANCE
Photograph a pioneering festival for teenage girls in Birmingham
We’re AWA DANCE, a feminist charity based in Birmingham focused on empowering girls through leadership and dance. We are preparing our very first Girls in Dance Festival (28 July 2025), a pioneering event for teenage girls that includes dance classes, a panel discussion, a short performance, interactive stalls, and more — all designed to inspire confidence, leadership, and changemaking. You can read more about the festival here: Girls in Dance Festival.
We’re looking for a photographer to attend the entire festival day in person, helping us capture the energy, joy and power of this one-of-a-kind event. You’ll photograph the atmosphere, dancing, interactions, and crucially — at least one strong image of each of the festival’s interactive stalls.
Your images will become part of the visual legacy of the festival and will be used to share its impact with future attendees, partners, and supporters. You’ll be helping us showcase the vibrancy and value of girls taking up space, moving with confidence, and celebrating who they are.
You’ll be supported by our team on the day and credited in any public use of your work.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Arts and Culture | Creating | Face to face
Skills requested
Photography Photographing an event/shoot
AWA DANCE
Looking for a Graphic Designer to shape our Girls’ Festival Magazine in Canva
We are preparing the very first Girls in Dance Festival (28 July 2025). We’re producing a festival magazine that will be distributed on the day and post-event to around 1,500 girls across the Midlands. The aim is to create something bold, beautiful, and empowering that reflects the spirit of the festival, using our colourful brand.
We’ve already started and have most of the written content ready, but visually it still needs cohesion, creativity and the kind of energy that will really connect with our audience of teenage girls.
We’re looking for support from a visual designer who can help us shape the look and feel of the magazine, something bold, beautiful and empowering. It needs to be created using Canva, as our team uses this platform for all our communications and resources, and it will allow us to build on the design in the future. We aim to send the magazine to print in early June.
Success for us would be a visually striking, print-ready magazine that captures the energy of the day, empowers young readers, and communicates the values of the festival. It will be a legacy piece, that continues to make an impact long after the festival.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Arts and Culture | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Stoke Newington Music School CIC
Social Media Expert needed guidance on growing our online presence
We are seeking a passionate volunteer to help us build and grow our social presence, so we can better share the impact of Stoke Newington Music School CIC and connect with people who believe in accessible music education.
Our current challenge is visibility—we need to reach a wider audience of potential supporters, funders, educators, and community partners through professional, engaging LinkedIn content. We have great stories, strong visuals, and a clear mission, but we need someone with experience in PR and social media—particularly LinkedIn—who can help us develop a strategy, provide examples of engaging posts, and grow our follower base. Skills in content writing, storytelling, and understanding best practices would be especially valuable.
Success for us would mean a well-curated LinkedIn page with regular, inspiring content that highlights our programmes, showcases our students’ successes, and communicates our values. We’re aiming for steady growth in followers, increased engagement, and opportunities to connect with new partners and supporters.
This support would directly help us amplify our mission—to break down barriers to music education for low-income families, SEN students, and older adults. It would help us tell our story more effectively and inspire others to join us in creating lasting change through music.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Arts and Culture | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Copywriting Copy, Proofreading, Specific audiences, Tone of voice
Marketing Email marketing, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
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