Current Volunteer Opportunities

Score-A-Bed collects insights from travellers about bed comfort and quality, helping accommodation providers improve sleep standards. We also support the charitable mission of tackling bed poverty and raising awareness of the importance of a good night's sleep.

We're looking for an experienced communications, social media or digital marketing professional to help us develop a focused awareness campaign that communicates the impact of bed poverty, the importance of good sleep and how traveller feedback can help drive change.

We'd like your support to:

• Identify key audiences and develop clear messaging around bed poverty, sleep quality and our charitable mission.
• Recommend the most effective communications channels and content formats to reach these audiences.
• Develop a practical 3–6 month content and campaign plan, including ideas for social media content and awareness-raising activity.
• Suggest ways to encourage travellers to share bed reviews and insights, and communicate the value of this feedback to accommodation providers.

The outcome will be a clear campaign strategy and actionable recommendations that our team can use to raise awareness, increase engagement and encourage more people to contribute to Score-A-Bed's work.

We'll work with the volunteer to agree the scope, deliverables and timeframe, with the aim of creating a practical plan that we can take forward ourselves.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Poverty | Creating | Remote

We recently set up a new website on Kualo, linked to WordPress, and we are looking for a volunteer with web skills to help us get the site set up and ensure we have the knowledge and confidence to maintain it ourselves.

We need support to set up volunteer account access and show our volunteers, for example via Google Meet or Zoom, how to add and remove content and pages, and understand basic website analytics.

We would also like someone to review the website and identify any key things we need to address to ensure it works well and is compliant, and help us understand what to look out for in future.

We’re looking for someone who can explain things clearly and provide a simple guide that our volunteers can refer back to.

Success would be a website that is ready to use, with our volunteers feeling confident about maintaining the content and tracking results themselves.

This will help supporters and potential beneficiaries better understand our charity, the support we offer and the opportunities available.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Older People | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Ēvolve Denim Atelier CIC is preparing to grow awareness of Mission Possible, our national denim collection campaign, and the wider work of ReNew, RePurpose and ReBuildLives.

We need support to develop a clear social media strategy that brings together our environmental purpose, our work keeping denim out of landfill, and our social mission of helping people develop skills and progress as artisans.

We already have established brand messaging, programme information, imagery and developing partnerships, but need specialist social media expertise to turn these resources into a focused and achievable campaign.

We are looking for someone with experience in social media strategy, audience development, campaign planning and creating engaging content across appropriate platforms.

Success would be a practical strategy we can implement, including clear audiences, content themes, platform recommendations, campaign structure and ways to measure engagement and growth.

This would help us reach more denim donors, participants, volunteers, partners and supporters, increasing the amount of denim kept in productive use while creating more opportunities for people to develop skills, sustainable livelihoods and greater financial independence.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Community | Creating | Remote

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

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

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