Current Volunteer Opportunities

The Association of Nantwich Bands is evolving from a single concert band into a wider community music charity, with a new symphonic band and choir joining our established ensemble. Our current branding was created around one band, so we need help developing an overarching identity for the Association, with a family of related ensemble brands sitting beneath it. Each should have its own character while being clearly recognisable as part of the same organisation.

We already have an established name and identity, website, social media channels, photography and a committed team who can provide background, ideas and feedback. We are looking for a volunteer with brand strategy and graphic design experience who can help us develop the brand architecture and translate it into a practical visual identity, ideally including logos, colours, typography and simple brand guidelines.

Success would be a distinctive, professional and flexible family of brands that works across digital and printed materials and is easy for our volunteers to use consistently. The new identity will help us launch our new ensembles, attract musicians and singers, grow audiences and supporters, and establish the Association as the recognisable home of community music in Nantwich.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Arts and Culture | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

As we just successfully completed the first year of delivering our 2025-2030 strategy, the organisation is also going through changes where both challenges and opportunities co-exist.

As we navigate this phase of our development with lots of uncertainty, we’re looking for a mentor experienced in charity communication and strategy development to help with our thinking as we update our communication strategy for the next phase. You will be a sounding board as we refine key elements in our communication plans, including:

• positioning and messaging to a wide range of audience from supporters to stakeholders
• communication priorities and focus
• authentic storytelling that builds connections and inspire actions

Format: weekly 45min-1hr session (online or in person :)) over 2 months

Skills looking for: branding & identity, charity communication / marketing strategy, stakeholder relationships, social media, digital marketing

What success looks like:

• clearer and more focused communication strategy that support the delivery of our 2025-2030 strategy
• greater confidence in our approach in positioning / messaging / storytelling

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Environment | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

This is a creative brief for a volunteer to make a short film introducing Steady State Manchester, a membership organisation, run by a core collective, advocating for a radically different approach to economic and social development in the Greater Manchester city-region.

We work towards a future where everyone can live well and within planetary limits, drawing inspiration from ideas about degrowth, post-growth, and steady state economy.

We seek a visual designer or digital designer to create a short film (3-4 minutes) that introduces SSM as an organisation.

The film should communicate that endless economic growth is incompatible with human and planetary health, inviting viewers to consider what socioecological justice in the city-region might mean and how it might look.

It should highlight our advocacy work and opportunities to get involved with the organisation.

We envision the film including short clips of interviews with SSM collective members, integrated with videographic, animation, text, or other visual materials.

The film should leave audiences with a clear sense that Steady State Manchester is building a future where people and planet flourish together, demonstrating that prosperity can be measured by healthy communities, meaningful lives, and a resilient environment rather than continual economic expansion.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Creating | Remote or Face to Face

User Voice is a national charity that works to strengthen the voices and leadership of people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

We are seeking a volunteer with website and WordPress expertise to review our current website and help us identify the most cost-effective and sustainable approach to improving and maintaining it.

We would like support to assess our website's structure, functionality, user experience, accessibility and ongoing maintenance needs. While our current site is built on WordPress, we are open to recommendations on whether this remains the best platform for our organisation or whether an alternative solution would better meet our needs and resources.

We're looking for someone with experience in WordPress, website strategy, user experience, accessibility and digital best practice, who can provide clear, practical recommendations to a small charity team.

Success would be a clear assessment of our current website, actionable recommendations for improvement, and a realistic roadmap for future development and maintenance.

A stronger, more accessible website would help us better communicate our impact, engage supporters and partners, and ensure people affected by the criminal justice system can easily access information about our work.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Legal and criminal justice | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

About SameYou

SameYou is a small but ambitious charity working to develop better mental health recovery pathways for survivors of brain injury and neurological conditions. We champion lived experience, amplify patient voices, and collaborate with partners to drive change in rehabilitation and mental health support.

We’re looking for a skilled volunteer copywriter to help us deliver a defined Survivor Stories project by transforming lived experience narratives into compelling, engaging stories for publication on our website. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution while helping ensure each story is told with dignity, sensitivity and authenticity.

The project could involve supporting the production of a series of survivor stories over an agreed project period. Together, we’ll agree the scope and timescale at the start of the project.

• Transform survivor stories into engaging portraits while preserving each individual’s authentic voice and lived experience
• Ensure all storytelling follows ethical, consent-based principles and protects the dignity, agency and voice of contributors
• Refine and structure copy to improve clarity, flow and readability without changing the meaning of the experiences being shared
• Ensure content aligns with SameYou’s brand, mission and messaging
• Work collaboratively with the SameYou team to complete the agreed project.

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent narrative storytelling and copywriting skills
• Understanding of ethical, consent-based storytelling, particularly around health or lived experience
• Strong editing, structuring and tone-adaptation skills
• Confidence using communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams, NationBuilder or similar
• Ability to write with clarity, empathy and consistency
• Comfortable working independently within a small charity environment.

Desirable

• Experience interviewing people with lived experience or vulnerable groups
• Experience writing across a range of formats, including case studies, campaign messaging and long-form content.

By supporting this project, you’ll help ensure powerful lived experience stories reach wider audiences, raising awareness and helping improve support for survivors of brain injury and neurological conditions.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Health | Creating | Remote

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we need support redesigning our current WordPress website into a modern platform that streamlines our user experience and boosts campaign engagement.

We already have an in-house IT Manager to lead the project, but we face a technical bottleneck in deciding whether to build the new site using Themeco's X Theme or the Elementor page builder. We need a volunteer with deep, hands-on development expertise in both specific ecosystems who can objectively evaluate their trade-offs regarding site speed, long-term maintenance, and ease of future content updates.

Success looks like making a definitive, well-architected framework choice and successfully launching a fast, mobile-responsive website that clearly honors our 20-year milestone and converts visitors into active supporters. Ultimately this redesign will translate our history of impact into an accessible digital home, making it easier for the community we serve to find vital resources and empowering us to fundraise effectively for the next 20 years.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are looking for somebody to update our volunteer handbook. This is given to all volunteers at Sheffield Mencap and Gateway - we have around 100 volunteers a year. We have an existing booklet, but it is now out of date and not very user-friendly. We are looking for someone to edit and update the content and design according to our brand guidelines.

Skills required: Writing and editing

We would love to get a handbook that's helpful and engaging for our volunteers, as well as being modern and will hopefully encourage more people to come along and volunteer. We rely on volunteers at Sheffield Mencap and Gateway, and we want to make sure we support them as much as they support us.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote

Maytree is the UK's only residential charity supporting adults experiencing an acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model.

Following our reopening in 2024, we are seeking support from an advertising agency to develop a compelling fundraising campaign that raises awareness, inspires action and helps secure long-term financial sustainability for our service. While Maytree has a powerful story and a strong reputation among some professional networks, we currently lack the specialist creative expertise to translate this into a memorable public campaign that emotionally connects with potential donors.

We are looking for support with campaign strategy, creative concepts, messaging and the development of assets that could be used across digital, social and print channels.

Success would look like a distinctive fundraising campaign that clearly communicates the life-saving impact of Maytree, increases public awareness, grows individual giving and strengthens relationships with supporters, funders and corporate partners. We would also like the campaign to establish a clear and consistent narrative that positions Maytree as an essential part of the suicide prevention landscape.

Ultimately, increased fundraising will allow us to support more people experiencing acute suicidal distress and ensure fewer people fall through the gap between emergency intervention and community-based support.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Maytree is the UK’s only residential charity supporting adults in acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model. Since reopening in 2024, we are rebuilding awareness of our service and need support to develop a clear, sustainable social media strategy and impactful campaigns that explain our role within suicide prevention.

Our small team currently creates ad hoc content and undertakes outreach, but we lack specialist communications capacity. We are seeking a volunteer with experience in social media strategy, campaign planning, content creation, audience segmentation and digital storytelling. We particularly need help communicating stories of hope and impact safely, while maintaining confidentiality and sensitivity around suicide.

Success would include a 12-month social media strategy, clear messaging for key audiences, a practical content calendar and campaigns that increase engagement with NHS services, mental health professionals, supporters, volunteers and potential funders. We also hope to strengthen referral pathways and build our team’s confidence to manage social media effectively.

Ultimately, this work will help more people know Maytree exists, enabling adults in acute suicidal distress to access compassionate support when they need it most.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Maytree is the UK’s only residential charity supporting adults in acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model. Since reopening in 2024, we recognise that our website is too complex and does not clearly serve our two key audiences: people who need help and people who want to give help.

We are seeking a volunteer with expertise in website design, user experience, information architecture and digital storytelling to help us create a simpler, more accessible and compassionate website. The redesigned site should make it easy for visitors to find the right information, whether they are seeking support, making a referral, donating, volunteering or exploring partnership opportunities.

Our small team can provide content, organisational knowledge and key messages, but we need specialist support to improve structure, navigation, messaging and calls to action. Success would be a modern, intuitive website with two clear user journeys, stronger engagement and a design our team can maintain.

Ultimately, this work will help more people find life-saving support and enable more supporters, volunteers and partners to contribute to Maytree’s mission.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face