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.
Family Lives
Marketing advice to promote charity video and reach new audiences
We are looking for a volunteer with lots of marketing experience to advise us on how best to promote videos that have been made for us by several generous media figures. We would like to ensure the promotion of the videos helps more families find out about the services and support we can offer. We have already started to promote one video but another video is in the making as well and we want to ensure we make the most of this fantastic opportunity. Key metrics are around video views and increased engagement of our national support services. We want to reach new people in new places so that they know about the vital support we can offer families.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Family | Mentoring | Remote
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing strategy
World Cetacean Alliance
Marketing Support for Whale and Dolphin Conservation
We’re looking for a volunteer to help us raise the profile of our Whale Heritage Areas (WHAs) programme, a global network of locations where local communities celebrate, respect, and protect cetaceans and their habitats. With a Communications Manager in place to support content creation and delivery, we need someone who can develop a marketing plan and guide its implementation.
Our key challenge is turning a wealth of powerful stories and local activity into cohesive, consistent communications that grows the visibility and influence of Whale Heritage Areas. We’re seeking a volunteer with experience in marketing strategy, digital campaign planning, and audience engagement — someone who can help shape our approach and mentor our team in delivering it.
Success is a clear, targeted marketing plan, improved digital presence, and increased engagement with target audiences such as tourism operators, tourists, and community stakeholders. We’d aim to grow website visits, social media reach, and new site enquiries as key outcomes.
This support will directly strengthen our ability to promote responsible tourism and ocean conservation. By helping us communicate the value of Whale Heritage Areas more effectively, you’ll play a vital role in inspiring more communities around the world to protect cetaceans and their habitats.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Environment | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Marketing Marketing strategy
Women's Association for Networking and Development
Re-brand and new brand assets to support next phase of charity
WAND has just celebrated its 20th anniversary in February 2025. Moving forward we are transitioning from our founder's operational leadership to a new permanent CEO hire, and the board need to move the charity to the next phase of its life with a sustainable long-term future.
We welcome support from creatives and designers that can help us re-think our brand identity and visuals and how this can best support and amplify our mission to empower women and girls.
This is a fantastic opportunity to use your creative skills to help a small charity with big ambitions to expand our reach and provide meaningful and helpful services to disadvantaged women and girls in the West London area.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Women and Girls | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Branding Brand guidelines, Logo design, Rebrand, Templates design
Marketing Marketing copy, Storytelling
Women's Association for Networking and Development
Redesign website to modernise the look and feel and improve UX
Our website (www.wanduk.org) looks dated and is difficult to navigate. It doesn't currently serve the needs of the charity to clearly communicate our values, vision and service offering to our community and to provide a platform for women and girls to understand how we can help them. We need graphic design and UX skills to review our current website and recommend and execute improvements.
Much of the content is old and has not been updated or archived, links to the event calendar are not working effectively, and the menus are not well signposted for specific stakeholders.
The content no longer aligns with our 3 key service pillars:
- Community support & advocacy
- Lifelong learning
- Health & wellbeing
We need our website to communicate our services clearly to all our key stakeholders - potential employees, volunteers, session workers, grant awarding bodies and other funders, other charitable organisations that we might partner with, and current and future service users.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Women and Girls | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Copywriting Copy, Editing, Tone of voice
Website Design thinking techniques (eg: user journeys and personas), Optimisation, Optimising web forms, Redesign, User experience, User interface design, Copy
Women's Association for Networking and Development
Communications strategy needed to support major transition plan
WAND is looking for a volunteer with skills in planning and executing comms strategies to help the charity plan for the planned change in leadership to a more sustainable model.
This is an opportunity to announce the new appointment, amplify the reach and recognition of the charity and the services it provides to a wider audience and generate interest in the services WAND provides. We need help to plan and execute comms with all key stakeholders including staff, volunteers, current service users, funders, local authority, local communities and the charity sector.
Ideally, the volunteer would be able to work with us to identify key channels and contacts, draft copy and press releases, website and social media content and updates, bios and profile pieces. We want to use this positive development in the history of WAND as a platform to let more women and girls know about how we can help them.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Women and Girls | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Website Redesign, User experience, Copy
The Mount Camphill Community
Fundraising support – targeting high-net-worth individuals for scholarship fund
We are a specialist craft college for young adults 16-25 with an EHCP, SEN or other learning difficulties in rural East Sussex who are in the midst of a political shift - each year it becomes increasingly difficult to fill our classrooms with students as the Local Authorities across the country contend with budgetary crises galore and decide that special needs education funding is the first to be cut.
Often we are left waiting for students to go through tribunal processes well after the academic year has begun and Local Authorities seem not to be interested in funding residential opportunities for our young people.
Therefore, we would like to begin a fundraising campaign to target high-net-worth individuals who may be interested in setting up or donating to a scholarship fund for students to be able to attend our college without the traumatic process of having to go to court over government funding.
We are looking for a media professional who has experience in high-value funding, creating communications to target high-net-worth individuals, and how to market this fundraising initiative on social and print media.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Campaign insights and optimisation, Media planning, Paid digital advertising
Marketing Campaign planning, Email marketing, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
The Mount Camphill Community
Help us recruit volunteers via social media!
We're a small East Sussex Camphill Community that each year invites 10-15 volunteers to live with us for a year and life-share in our community whilst supporting the educational, living and work opportunities for our community members who are neurodiverse, have SEN needs or other learning difficulties.
We get many applicants from Germany, Brazil and the Philippines and each year can fill our quota of volunteers from these 3 countries. However, before COVID we received applications from a more diverse range of countries and we would like help to finetune our SEO and use of hashtags to reach further into the world.
Also, the impact of Brexit means European volunteers can only stay 1 year with us - previously many would fall in love with the community and stay an extra year or two (some for the rest of their lives!). This could still be an opportunity for any UK or Irish volunteers we happened to recruit. Therefore, we'd like assistance developing a focused social media strategy that runs from October '25 to February '26 to reach UK/Irish audiences to remain to re-open the door for potential 2nd/3rd/4th year volunteers and beyond.
We are looking for a communications and social media specialist, with an understanding of driving recruitment of volunteers.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Email marketing, Google Adwords, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
The Mount Camphill Community
Social Media/Marketing support developing SEN FE college marketing strategy
We are a very small specialist further education college within a Camphill community that is in need of some assistance with our social media identity and marketing strategy.
We are struggling to recruit students and get noticed in the way that we need by Local Authorities in order to have a full cohort of residential students funded to attend our craft college. We are distinct and different in our offer - focusing more on craft and therapies as a way to encourage growth and independence within our student body.
We have been open since 1970 but recently student numbers have been falling. By way of a robust marketing and social media strategy, we would like to increase our modest following (1.7k Instagram, 1.1k Facebook) and improve our messaging in order for a cohesive strategy that makes 'The Mount' synonymous with the best educational opportunity for your SEN child.
We are looking for support from someone with experience in social media, digital marketing, PR, and print media. We would like to increase traffic to our brand-new website, assess the best format for our upcoming prospectus (print or digital), and increase our social media following.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Campaign insights and optimisation, Media planning, Paid digital advertising
Marketing Campaign planning, Email marketing, Marketing strategy, Paid digital marketing, Storytelling
Association of Charitable Organisations
Branding expert needed for accessible logo and colour guide update
We’re rebranding the ACO logo to modernise our identity while retaining core elements like our orange brand colour. We want the refreshed logo to reflect collaboration, unity, and our role as the voice of grant-giving charities. Alongside this, we need a colour palette and accessibility guide to ensure our visual identity is inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards across digital and print.
We are looking for a volunteer with branding and graphic design expertise, ideally with knowledge of accessible design principles. You’ll help refine or redesign our logo and develop a complementary, accessibility-friendly colour guide.
Success would mean a logo and brand colour palette that looks fresh and professional, works across platforms, and meets WCAG accessibility standards. This would allow us to confidently present our brand to members, stakeholders, and the wider public, ensuring clarity and inclusivity in all communications.
Ultimately, your support will help us better represent and support our network of over 100 charities, improving how we communicate our collective impact.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Other | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Branding Brand guidelines, Logo design
Sevenoaks Scouts
Campaign Planning & Logo Design for a £1m Fundraising Appeal
We are launching a £1m fundraising campaign to build Sevenoaks Scouts Community Barn. The Community Barn will be a new, purpose-built activity centre and headquarters for Scouting in Sevenoaks, and a Community facility for the benefit of local community groups.
We are looking for support to develop a Marketing strategy (to include copy editing, print and digital marketing) to launch and sustain this £1m campaign, and graphic design expertise to develop a unique project logo. The campaign objective is to secure £1m in funding over nine months from diverse sources including local businesses, grant making bodies, major donors, and Scouting alumni.
With climbing, outdoor, and water sports facilities, Sevenoaks Scouts Community Barn will be a hub for Scouting in Sevenoaks: a place for young people to access adventure and fun while learning skills for life. As a Community facility, the Barn will also be available to local organisations as a place for the whole community to come together.
We are a small team of Scouting volunteers with no professional Marketing expertise. We are in need of support to develop a Marketing strategy to ensure the success of this fundraising campaign.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Children and Young People | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Copywriting Copy, Specific audiences
Marketing Campaign planning, Email marketing, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Influencer marketing, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Paid digital marketing, Storytelling
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