Current Volunteer Opportunities

Design brief for new branding

Background: Clean Energy Leeds is a new organisation created by the merging of Leeds Community Energy and Alwoodley Community Energy. Clean Energy Leeds provides support and advice to local people and community buildings around energy efficiency and green energy options. We have solar, wind and heat working groups. We help support communities in Leeds to get solar panels and clean energy systems and help with fundraising to buy assets that benefit local people across the whole Leeds area. It is a not for profit Community Benefit Society and a community-led organisation which needs to represent the people of Leeds.

Company name: Clean Energy Leeds

Strapline: ‘Local Power, Community Owned’

What we need:

• New logo and branding kit
• Square logo, rectangular header for social media and website
• Font and colour scheme which we can use and is simple and recognisable

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Environment | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

30th April | 13th May | 17th June | 11th September | 1.5 hours, online via Zoom.

We’re seeking experienced media professionals to support participants in developing their media engagement skills through small mentoring circles over a range of dates for the Diverse Voices programme ran in partnership with NPC. We’re especially interested if you have experience working with marginalised groups and have knowledge of accessible communication.

Mentors will work with groups of four participants across structured, interactive sessions focused on building practical skills such as pitching, engaging with journalists, and applying media strategies in real-world contexts.

Mentors will play a key role in creating a supportive, constructive environment where participants can build confidence, test ideas, and receive honest, actionable feedback.

If you’re interested in supporting emerging voices in media engagement, apply via the platform or get in touch by 17 April with olivec@mediatrust.org to find out more.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Array | Creating | Remote

Hello, we’d love to find a volunteer who can help us with some search engine optimisation. Be part of some exciting new work we’re supporting to build local action in the Forest of Dean on climate change. We are part of the Forest of Dean Climate Action Partnership (fodcap.org), a relatively new organisation at an exciting time in its development, and we need some help making it more visible online. We have just revamped FODCAP’s website and we’re really happy with the new look, but we’ve realised that it’s not appearing high up on Google, Ecosia, or AI searches. We are a small team working on this, essentially a one and a half person band, so could really use some support and guidance on how to improve this. Our website is hosted by Squarespace, and success would be for us to feature high up across a range of Google searches. We need help to understand search engine optimisation and what changes we need to make to the website to improve our online visibility, and we think we probably only need a few hours of someone’s time.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Community | Creating | Remote

We are about to launch the first Accessible Moorings in partnership with MK Canals, the Buckingham Canal Society and the Canal & River Trust. A prototype bollard has been developed and tested following development work by students at Walsall College (https://www.awa-uk.org.uk/developing-the-accessible-mooring-bollard). In early May, bollards will be installed at two sites in Wolverton and Fenny Stratford. By getting press coverage (TV, radio and print), we will be able to showcase how these moorings will benefit the increasing number of disabled boaters on our inland waterways network. We are also looking for help with compiling Social Media posts and sharing them with a wider audience. This includes advice and/or help on producing videos and stills to use to promote the project. This will help our mission by raising public awareness, which in turn we want to use to attract funding from corporate partners.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Our charity, (Scarf New Forest) supports local families by organising inclusive events and activities.  Our current website no longer reflects the quality or range of support we provide and needs regular updating. It is built on WordPress, but our team lacks the training and confidence to update content, improve the layout, or maintain a professional look. We are looking for a volunteer with WordPress and digital communications experience who can guide us on best practice, help us organise our pages, and train a staff member so we can confidently manage the site ourselves. We already have an existing website, core content, and a team member who can take responsibility for updates with the right support. Success would mean a clear, professional, and functional website that is easy for us to maintain. In the long term, this will ensure families can easily find up-to-date information about the support available to them, while also helping us share engaging, relevant content with potential funders and partners.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

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

We need support to rethink and strengthen our approach to growing audiences as declining clicks and changing social algorithms make it harder to reach and retain readers for our environmental journalism, particularly across diverse regions and languages. Our small social media team would value high-level, strategic input on how to make better use of our resources and move beyond reactive, platform-led approaches. We're seeking a volunteer with experience in audience development, social media strategy, analytics, and mission-driven or newsroom environments who enjoys advising and mentoring rather than hands-on delivery. Success would look like; clearer strategic direction, shared ways of thinking about audience growth and success, and increased confidence within our team to test and learn through formats such as newsletters or vertical video. In turn, this guidance would help our journalism connect more meaningfully with global audiences, elevate underrepresented local voices, and support constructive, solutions-focused dialogue on climate and environmental issues.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Environment | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are launching Relationships: Unplugged, a monthly podcast on relationship health, dating, parenting, and getting on better. Episodes are 30 to 40 minutes, recorded remotely using Riverside. We have two confident hosts and a digital team managing production, but no in-house podcasting experience. We need a volunteer mentor who can coach our hosts on delivery, pacing, and interview technique. We also need guidance on episode structure, audience growth strategy, and turning episodes into short-form clips for social media. Success looks like a consistent, well-produced show that grows its listenership month on month and drives audiences into our online community. The podcast is a key part of our Getting On Better campaign, which aims to make relationship skills culturally normal for everyone. Your mentorship would directly improve the quality and reach of evidence-based relationship support for people across the UK.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Other | Creating | Remote

We are looking for a creative and compassionate videographer to capture the energy and heart of our annual Wellbeing Event, held during Mental Health Awareness Week (11–17 May), a time when people across the UK come together to challenge stigma and celebrate the strength of lived experience. For Hillside, this week is especially meaningful: our members, clients, and wider Hillside community get a rare and powerful spotlight to share their stories, talents, and voices alongside brilliant professional performers. We want to create a vibrant highlight film that reflects the atmosphere of the night, the joy, the courage and the connection, but we don’t have the in‑house skills or tools to produce this ourselves. We’re looking for someone who can beautifully film the event, capture authentic B‑roll moments and craft an engaging edit we can proudly share across our social media, website and promotional campaigns. Success for us is a film that feels alive: something that draws people in, lifts up our members and helps more people understand why community‑led mental health support truly matters. With your help, we can amplify voices too often overlooked and shine a light on the resilience of the people we support locally and nationally.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Face to face

We're looking for a web developer who loves a bit of problem-solving and back-end foraging. We had a new website built in 2024 in WordPress that is largely user-friendly, but we've had a couple of kooky blips - buttons changing colours and mobile-only images coming up on the web that we'd love support to wrangle down. We're a small charity with a limited budget for external support, so we would deeply appreciate help to ensure our website remains accessible and easy to navigate for potential families, referrers, or new supporters.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Remote

OnePlusOne is a relationship research charity with over 50 years' experience turning evidence into practical tools that help people get on better. We create free digital resources, professional training, and an online community for people navigating stress, separation, and relationship challenges.

Our challenge is growth. We have strong content, we want the £10k monthly Google Ad Grant, and a growing community platform, but we need strategic marketing expertise to make the most of them.

We are looking for a volunteer digital marketing strategist to work alongside our team on channel strategy, paid search optimisation, analytics, and growth funnel design. You would contribute thinking and expertise while our team leads all communications and retains ownership of decisions.

We already have access to GA4, Looker Studio, and Google Ads. Our content manager and UX lead are keen to learn from your experience as part of the collaboration.

Success would be a clearer marketing funnel, improved Google Ad Grant performance, and better data to guide our decisions. This would directly increase the number of people accessing free relationship support across the UK.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Other | Creating | Remote