Current Volunteer Opportunities

We are looking for a media volunteer to help us capture and communicate the work we do in a powerful, accessible and professional way. The project will involve attending a minimum of six of our meetings, community sessions and outreach activities to capture video and photography, using our microphone and recording equipment, including OBS.

The volunteer will also produce an agreed number of short-form videos or other pieces of content for our social media, helping us build a library of digital content that showcases our impact and attracts more people to our work.

As an additional outcome, the volunteer could provide a short training session for staff, volunteers and peer supporters, helping the team to continue creating content confidently and safely after the project ends. This could include basic filming techniques, storytelling guidance and simple editing skills.

Your contribution will help us tell the story of our work more effectively while also building our team's long-term capacity to create digital content independently.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Faith | Creating | Face to face

Photojournalism Hub is a community interest company using documentary photography and photojournalism to amplify underrepresented voices and explore social issues.

We are developing our first Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Festival for 2027, alongside exhibitions, events, workshops and community projects. We need support to strengthen how we communicate this work to new and existing audiences.

We are looking for a volunteer with experience in digital strategy, social media and/or PR and journalism who can help us:

• Develop a practical communications strategy
• Identify and prioritise key audiences
• Improve our approach to storytelling across social media, our website and other channels

Success would be a clear, realistic strategy, stronger and more consistent communications, and increased engagement and visibility for our programmes and festival.

This would help us reach more diverse audiences, increase participation in our activities and give greater visibility to the voices and stories at the heart of our work.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Arts and Culture | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are a small cooperative seeking a nature-loving videographer to create a heart-warming, 45-60sec video highlighting our beautiful Earth-centred diary, calendar and journals. We need help with end-to-end production, including storyboarding, filming, editing, audio mixing, etc. The video will be used across social media and our digital storefront to drive seasonal (winter) sales while promoting environmental mindfulness and connection.

We love our Earth, and our publications celebrate this. They advocate heart-led care and appreciation of the planet and the natural rhythm of the seasons. They are printed on FSC-certified paper with vegetable-based inks, and a portion of any annual profit goes to tree planting and to grass-roots projects that help the Earth. The video needs to reflect our ethos.

We’ve made basic videos in the past using an iPhone and a wireless mic. We want to gain confidence and be more self-sufficient in the future. Some training in video editing would also help us going forward.

We need a video that is earth-inspired, natural and authentic, that captures the magic of winter and tells a story about slower, conscious living, appreciating the many small wonders of the Earth and the value of community.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Environment | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

The Wave Project has recently completed a large thematic review of young people’s feedback, including written reflections, drawings and creative responses about mental health, belonging, confidence and what helps them feel supported.

We want to explore how this rich qualitative evidence could become a short animation or digital visual story, using young people’s own words and visual language rather than creating a conventional charity promotional film.

We already have the research findings, anonymised qualitative material and a clear understanding of the key themes. We are looking for a volunteer with animation, visual storytelling, graphic design or film experience who can help us develop the creative concept, storyboard and ideally an initial prototype or short piece.

Success would be an engaging and sensitive creative output that makes young people’s experiences accessible to practitioners, commissioners, funders and the wider public.

Ultimately, we want young people’s voices to influence how mental health support is understood and designed.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

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

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 stakeholderscommunication priorities and focusauthentic storytelling that builds connections and inspire actionsFormat: weekly 45min-1hr session (online or in person :)) over 2 monthsSkills looking for: branding &identity, charity communication / marketing strategy, stakeholder relationships, social media, digital marketingWhat success looks like:clearer and more focused communication strategy that support the delivery of our 2025-2030 strategygreater confidence in our approach in positioning / messaging / storytelling

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Environment | 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 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

Creating | Remote or Face to Face