Current Volunteer Opportunities
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Alder Trust
Graphic designer needed to design resources we use with young people
We have created several games, activities and resources that we use in schools to teach pupils about all things that affect relationships. We would like to have these professionally produced so we can sell them to schools and parents. This means more young people benefitting from conversations around relationships and will give us a new income stream, making our charity more sustainable.
We have already created the resources and have researched where we can get them produced but we need a graphic designer to do a better job of designing each one.
We have emoji cards, a media pairs card game, a board game that addresses stereotypes, a card game addressing what young children do if they accidentally see 'bad pictures' online, and a booklet for teachers with activity ideas to develop empathy in their pupils.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Community | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Photography Consent forms, Editing, Photographing an event/shoot
Home-Start South West Kent
Marketing/Social media advice needed for volunteer recruitment campaign
We are a volunteer-led charity, with around 70 volunteers and 6 paid staff. Our volunteers typically respond to our Facebook ads, however, we need support in updating these to ensure that we continue to receive enquiries from interested potential volunteers. Without our volunteers, we couldn't support our families.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Family | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Storytelling
ThriveTogether
Social media expert needed to help us share our story and amplify our reach
We are looking for a passionate social media expert to help ThriveTogether amplify its message of community empowerment and wellness. Our main challenge is building a cohesive, engaging, and impactful social media presence across platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
We need support in designing creative posts, crafting compelling captions, and developing strategies to boost engagement, grow our followers, and build brand awareness. The ideal volunteer will have skills in social media strategy, graphic design, content creation, and analytics. If you’re familiar with scheduling tools and can adapt content to suit different audiences, we’d love your expertise!
Success for us would look like increased social media engagement, with posts that inspire meaningful conversations and action. A measurable goal is a 30% increase in followers and community engagement within six months.
This enhanced online presence will allow us to reach and support more people, promote our initiatives effectively, and further our mission of fostering thriving, inclusive communities.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Community | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Optimisation
NewstrAid
Social media expert needed to improve our use of Linked In
As an occupational charity we feel we could better use LinkedIn for recruiting volunteers and finding advocates who will help us spread the word and champion our cause on social media. I know we are only using a very small proportion of the capability of LinkedIn but am by no means a social media expert and would appreciate some advice and input on how we might be able to use it more effectively.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Other | Mentoring | Remote
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Influencer marketing
Hatch Enterprise
Help us develop our national digital billboard marketing campaign
We’ve secured a spot on the JCDecaux Community Channel and the chance to appear on digital billboards across the UK to promote our charity’s work to support people to launch and grow businesses/social enterprises who typically might not. We’re determined to make this campaign happen, despite budgets drastically cut before Christmas as it’s too big an opportunity to not.
We're looking for somebody who has experience in developing national billboard marketing campaigns to volunteer somewhere around eight to ten hours of their time over the next few weeks to help us develop and craft some key messaging, give us feedback on our campaign ideas and help us with a strategy to maximise our impact.
Our campaign is due to run across March 2025, so we’d love to get stuck in with this volunteer as soon as next week (w/c 13 January 2025). We’ve made a solid start on ideas, objectives and creative direction, so if you’re keen, want to help with a big national campaign and want to find out more, let us know! Thank you!
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Employment and Training | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Copy, Campaign insights and optimisation, Graphics
Copywriting Specific audiences, Tone of voice
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy
Ffrindiau Gwyllt / Wild Friends
Wanted: Digital Wizard for Wild Friends
Grow with Wild Friends: Help Build Our Digital Future and Support Wildlife, Biodiversity and Wellbeing
We’re a small but driven social enterprise with a big mission—to restore a degraded ancient woodland and its biodiversity. We’re also growing native wildflowers and trees from seed to protect local species and offering therapeutic horticulture to our community. The only thing we’re not so great at? Building our digital presence! That’s where you come in. If you're a marketing master with a knack for websites, we’d love your help to create a site and craft a strategy to spread the word about our wild, wonderful work. 🌳✨
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Rural Communities | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Redesign
St Mary's church
Social media help to review Facebook and publicity and develop strategy
Most local people will have seen St Mary's church, but are unaware of the opportunities, events and activities we offer, from services, community support and facilities.
Our Vicar and volunteers post regularly to Facebook including live streaming some services (Facebook 463 likes 611 followers). We take photos. We design graphics on Canva and post them to Facebook and print/copy. We share events via our notices (printed, email, Facebook (events), and free on our website and other sites - the Town Crier also promotes our events). We have a Next Door account and post to that. We post volunteer opportunities online (charity Job, Indeed, Restless, Do-it, Neighbourly etc) and fundraisers. We occasionally make the press and our Vicar recently featured in a local podcast.
We are looking for skills such as graphic design, copy and strategy skills.
We would love to increase our reach and engagement to raise awareness. The goal is for more people to attend events, book (hire) our space and get involved as volunteers to help our community etc.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Faith | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
The Talent Tap
WordPress wizard need to bring a concept to life
We have a new brand and a new website designed, we now need life breathing into it. We use WordPress and are looking for someone to bring our wireframe to the world. We are a small charity and use our website (coupled with social media) as our window to the world of young people and corporate businesses. Simply put, the better the website the more engagement we get, the more money we raise and the more disadvantaged young people we can help.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Employment and Training | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Redesign, User experience, User interface design
The Finchley Charities
Communications expert required to create internal and external comms strategy
We’re looking for a volunteer to design our internal and external communications strategy based on resident feedback, to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, trustees, partner organisations and the wider community. The strategy must be mindful of digital exclusion as we work with older people.
Existing resources include quarterly newsletter (paper copies), Office 365, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts (sparse existing content), website, policies on GDPR, Social Media and Media Usage and photo permissions forms. We also have come up with some survey questions and have a colleague able to conduct this survey, so surveying can be done in-house if required.
Desirable skills include strategy design skills, consulting and survey analysis skills, and presentation skills to clearly convey the new strategy to colleagues.
The desired outcome is a comprehensive communications strategy to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, partners, trustees and the wider community, including an outline of how we should use digital communications.
Desired impacts: clearer and more effective communication with residents; facilitating resident access to services and social events and strengthening the community; raising awareness of TFC; strengthening our online presence to facilitate grant bids; allowing us to collaborate better with partners and volunteers; reaching more prospective residents.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Older people | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Aspierations
Help us launch a podcast to educate and empower Austistic job seekers
Communications challenge
Aspierations is looking to strengthen the autistic community by creating opportunities for meaningful conversation and sharing lived experiences. We aim to produce a podcast series featuring interviews with autistic individuals who have unique stories to tell. This podcast will not only empower the autistic audience by showcasing relatable experiences but also educate neurotypical listeners on autism-friendly communication.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a volunteer with skills in podcast production, including audio editing, storytelling, and promotion. While we have ideas for potential guests and topics, we need support to turn these (and already recorded interviews) into compelling episodes and ensure the podcast reaches the right audience.
What success looks like to us
Success for us means launching a professional podcast series that resonates with autistic listeners and engages neurotypical audiences. We’d love to see episodes shared widely, sparking conversations about autism and bridging communication gaps.
Impact you’ll have
By creating this podcast, Aspierations hopes to foster a sense of community within the autistic population and promote greater understanding and acceptance in society. This project directly aligns with our mission to amplify autistic voices and build a more inclusive world.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Employment and Training | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
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