Current Volunteer Opportunities

At The Sound Lab, we believe that ‘music matters’ and that music and creativity should not just be available for those who can readily access and afford it it should be available to everyone. Our vision is that, irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity or economic background, everyone should have equal access to the resources and support they need to fulfil their creative potential.

We are a small grassroots charity and are looking for comms, marketing, PR and design expertise to help take us to the next level.

We are particularly looking for comms, media and PR expertise to help us with articulating our story to key stakeholders, funders and media.

We are also looking for design expertise to help build and promote our brand.

We are based in Glasgow but volunteer roles can be based anywhere.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

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

We are seeking support to review and strengthen the usability and reach of the Re-Alliance website, which is currently hosted on Wix and serves as the main platform for our growing collection of regenerative resources, publications and blogs used by practitioners worldwide. We are seeking a volunteer with skills in reviewing websites, web design, SEO strategy and digital content optimisation.

Our challenge is primarily ensuring that our content can be discovered more widely through improved SEO and Google Ads strategy, but we would welcome any advice on website flow and user experience to increase engagement. We have a functioning site and an active (but very small) communications team, and limited capacity, so hands-on website editing support would be absolutely ideal, but if not, strategic guidance and mentoring on SEO and digital optimisation would still be extremely valuable.

Success would mean a more intuitive, accessible website and a clear SEO approach that allows our blogs, guides and publications to reach significantly more people. Strengthening our online presence will directly enhance the ability of frontline organisations responding to climate breakdown, conflict and disasters to access regenerative knowledge and peer learning, supporting our mission to shift power and resources towards community-led solutions.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

International Development | Mentoring | Remote

We need support to create a professionally edited, engaging short video that showcases our charity’s work in Lewisham and highlights the story of our founder and the impact of our programmes.

We already have photos, branding materials, and a brief outline, but we need a skilled volunteer with strong video editing, storytelling, and motion graphics abilities to turn this content and any additional material into a polished final product.

Success for us would be a 1–3 minute video that feels modern, inspiring, and funder-ready—something we can use across funding applications, social media, presentations, and community outreach. This video will help us communicate our impact more clearly, increase trust with funders, attract new partners, and encourage more local residents to join programmes.

Ultimately, this support will allow us to amplify the voices of the people we serve and strengthen our mission to reduce digital exclusion in Lewisham.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Education | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We need a volunteer to review and overhaul our rather basic WordPress website with a view to presenting something that is accessible, modern, bright and friendly. It does not need to be complicated, but certain parts of the existing functionality are failing, for example, website-based referral forms.

Experience in website design and building would be essential, as well as experience in SEO. Ideally, we would like to preserve, redesign and build from within our existing structure while keeping the existing site live during any redesign. We would also like to keep maintenance and updating easy and controllable by our team.

Our team would be happy to provide images and content for the website upon request, but we lack the design experience and time to support the rebuilding work.

Ideally, the rebuild could happen by the end of January 2026, when we would have a fully functional, simple but attractive site with all menu pages fully built and content added.

This new site would allow existing and prospective clients and ABI professionals to understand our range of services, make referrals, access a library of ABI information and make donations.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Remote

We need a strategic communications professional to help us explain our work powerfully. This will set us on course to create a new website where we can crisply communicate the complex work we do and attract more funding. We have plenty of resource material and are already engaged in internal thinking to better articulate our core positioning.

We imagine the volunteer will need to steep themselves in our work, meet a few of us, to distil and frame our essence. Deliverables would be a positioning statement and 'message house'. We've always been a systemic, social justice organisation, but we want to communicate that more clearly. Our programmes are built to move people from isolation, via solidarity, to agency.

We engage with the two most powerful influences in a child’s life, their family and their school, to create lasting, systemic change. Our interventions create inclusive spaces in under-resourced communities where families who have been marginalised can come together, find solidarity, strengthen their emotional and social skills, amplify their voices in schools, recognise their own expertise and power, and build lasting supportive networks.

I look forward to hearing from you!

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

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

You will shape the visual storytelling of complex messages across our website and social media channels, including Instagram, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. Your illustrations will play a key role in our advocacy, marketing and fundraising work.

• Create 20 original illustrations to be used for various purposes such as the charity’s social media posts, reports, campaigns and marketing. (style and timeline to be discussed at interview)
• The creative artworks must align with Helen Bamber Foundation and Asylum Aid’s tone, branding, and trauma-informed approach.
• Help translate complex policies, personal stories and abstract concepts (such as trauma, recovery or community) into thoughtful and engaging imagery in the illustrations.
• Contribute creative ideas on how the artworks can be used across our online platforms.
• Conduct one or two workshops with our Ambassadors for Change, a group of survivors with lived experience of asylum system, to help them develop visuals that support their campaigns.
• Ensure all artwork respects the dignity and privacy of survivors and adheres to ethical storytelling and safeguarding principles.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Human Rights | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are looking for a volunteer with experience in social media and campaign-based fundraising to help us. We would love support with reviewing our current Facebook, Instagram and website, advising on how best to link everything up, and ensuring our platforms are set up correctly. Guidance on choosing the right platforms to show who we are, events that we attend and generally improving our profile. We have a brand and identity, but need to get it noticed more. We hope this support will increase our Social media likes, shares, and also invites to attend Corporate open days with links to Armed Forces Veterans. Success would also mean having a clear strategy for what we post, when and why — and a confident, consistent voice across all our channels. 

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Armed Forces | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face

We are looking for a volunteer to deliver training sessions for voluntary and community groups in Milton Keynes, either online or face-to-face. Many small charities and community organisations have limited experience with social media, and they need support to build their confidence, engage effectively with audiences, and expand their reach.

The ideal volunteer will have experience delivering workshops, a strong understanding of social media for charities, and the ability to simplify digital concepts for non-technical audiences.

Success will be measured by participants gaining practical skills they can immediately apply to grow their online presence, with a clear increase in engagement and reach across their social media channels. Ultimately, this training will help the local voluntary sector communicate their work more effectively, reach more beneficiaries, and strengthen the community impact of their projects.

Quick Fix: 1-4 hours

Infrastructure bodies | Training | Remote or Face to Face

We are planning a short term social media project to help us raise twelve thousand pounds for a new all weather space. This will allow us to stay open throughout the year and continue supporting older people in our community who may be isolated or lonely.

We are looking for a volunteer with experience in social media and campaign based fundraising to help us prepare for this push. We would love support with reviewing our current Facebook group and our website, advising on how best to link everything up, and ensuring our platforms are set up correctly before we start the campaign.

We would also appreciate help developing a simple content plan and a small set of templates using Canva, so our existing volunteers can post consistently during the fundraising period. Guidance on choosing the right platforms, targeting audiences aged fifty to ninety plus, using hashtags effectively, and making the most of fundraising tools would be incredibly valuable.

Success for us would look like a clear and manageable social media campaign that increases our reach, improves understanding of the work we do, and helps us meet our fundraising target. We have volunteers ready to support implementation, plenty of case studies, and great stories to share. We are open to your ideas and keen to learn.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Older People | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We provide effective, efficient tutoring to children from disadvantaged backgrounds to help close their literacy gap, but we are also ambitious to support their families. When parents engage with their child's learning, both sides benefit.

We already have several things in place to support families, but we need to improve how we communicate with parents who are often short on time and juggling many demands.

We think WhatsApp is the best way to reach them, but we need help working out the best approach. Should we use a WhatsApp channel, a community group or a broadcast list? How can we manage the different groups, schools and programmes we want to communicate with. We would really value expert support on this. 

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face