Current Volunteer Opportunities

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

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

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

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

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

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:

1. Have an effective presence on Instagram, Tik Tok and LinkedIn to create brand awareness
2. 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.
3. 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

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

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

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

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