Current Volunteer Opportunities

We’re seeking a creative and brand-savvy volunteer to support the development and consistency of our visual and communications identity. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape how our charity is seen and felt across all platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and refinement of our brand strategy
• Assist in updating and designing key brand assets, including logos and iconography
• Create branded templates for presentations, reports, social media, and other materials
• Help ensure visual consistency and brand alignment across all communications
• Collaborate with the team to maintain a clear and cohesive brand identity

Ideal Skills:

• Strong understanding of branding and visual communication
• Experience with design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma)
• Creative thinker with an eye for detail and consistency
• Passion for youth mental health and creating inclusive and empathetic communications

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Remote

Sheffield Futures is looking for a volunteer with a passion for communications, storytelling, or data to help us bring our 2025 Impact Report to life. We’re a charity supporting young people and communities across Sheffield, and this report is how we showcase the change we’re driving, thanks to our incredible partners, funders, and frontline teams.

We’re seeking someone to help us gather insights, shape narratives from our service data, and communicate our impact in a powerful, accessible way. You’ll work with our team who will provide stats, case studies, feedback, and visuals. But we need your help to bring it all together - transforming information into a compelling and engaging story that resonates with stakeholders, partners, and future funders.

Skills in insight generation, data analysis, copywriting, comms, or design would be a bonus - but above all, we’re looking for someone who can help us show why our work matters.

A successful report will be easy to navigate, visually engaging, and full of real-life stories and evidence of the difference we make. Your input will directly help us attract new support, demonstrate our accountability, and champion the needs of young people across Sheffield.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

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

Are you passionate about photography and eager to make a real difference in the lives of sick and premature babies? Join us at Ickle Pickles, where our small but mighty team is committed to improving neonatal care.

We are excited to invite parents of premature and sick babies to participate in a professional photo shoot for our new 2026 fundraising calendar, in London.

Location: Central London (near London Bridge)

Schedule: Available Mondays or Fridays throughout July and August

Potential Dates, depending on your availability:

• Friday, 1st August
• Monday, 8th August
• Friday, 15th August
• Monday, 18th August
• Monday, 1st September

Responsibilities:

• Conduct professional photo shoots for our calendar project with babies and young children
• Utilise your own portable lighting equipment for high-quality images
• Edit images to ensure the best possible presentation

Why Your Support Matters

Each year, over 90,000 babies in the UK are born sick or prematurely. At Ickle Pickles, we help hospitals raise funds for lifesaving equipment. By joining this fundraising initiative, you will help us increase support and boost donations to make a significant impact.

Interested in being a part of this meaningful project? Apply now!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Health | Creating | Face to face

We're looking for a talented graphic designer with branding experience to help us refresh our logo and visual identity. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on a small charity that empowers people to live independently.

The brief: create a new, modern logo that reflects our mission and values, avoids disability clichés, and takes inspiration from our new tagline: Empowering, enabling, and enhancing your everyday. We’d also like the colour palette to include red and white – known to be dementia-friendly.

You'll be helping us build a stronger brand identity that resonates with our clients, funders and partners. The new logo will be used across our website, signage and printed materials, so versatility is key.

If you can also offer a basic brand guide (fonts, colours, usage tips), even better, but the logo is the priority. We're aiming to complete the project by the end of the summer.

If you’re passionate about design with purpose and have a strong portfolio, we’d love to hear from you. Your skills can help us move forward with confidence and clarity.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

At Ickle Pickles, we’re a passionate team dedicated to creating impactful campaigns. We’re excited to raise awareness about prematurity and hope to engage wider audiences with our 2025 World Prematurity Day Campaign. Our 2024 awareness video achieved 17.6k views across social media, and in 2025, we're aiming to engage an even bigger crowd!

We offer remote, flexible work with regular check-ins, an opportunity to innovate and implement your ideas, and a chance to build your portfolio. If you've successfully created creative assets for campaigns, such as a short video or infographics, you can help us raise awareness of prematurity and neonatal care.

Skills Needed:

• Planning and implementing a digital campaign across various channels
• Expertise in copywriting, creative graphic design and videography/ editing skills

Why Your Support Matters

Each year, over 90,000 babies in the UK are born sick or prematurely. Ickle Pickles helps hospitals raise funds for lifesaving equipment. By creating a new campaign, you can help us increase support, spread awareness, and boost donations. Interested in making a difference? Apply now!

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Remote

Join Ickle Pickles for one of our largest fundraising events, the BubbleRush 5K Fun Run, in Portsmouth on October 5th. We're aiming to sell over 1,000 tickets and need your skills to promote this event on Meta platforms. With creative assets ready, we're looking for a volunteer to execute three geotargeted ad campaigns: July 21st-31st, August Bank Holiday (August 22nd-25th), and September 26th to October 3rd.

If you've successfully managed advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram, you can help us reach our target audience and boost ticket sales.

Our goal is to sell at least 500 tickets via Meta ads, attracting families and raising funds for neonatal equipment like a £28,000 incubator. Enjoy flexible remote work, become part of an ambitious charity, and gain valuable advertising experience. You'll receive references and build your portfolio with creative assets.

Why It Matters

Each year, 90,000 babies in the UK are born sick or prematurely. Ickle Pickles is the only charity dedicated to raising funds for equipment for these newborns. Events like BubbleRush support our mission to give every newborn a chance and help local neonatal units.

Please apply by 14/7/25.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Remote

Project Overview: 

After being closed for nearly five years due to the pandemic and committee changes, our village hall is finally open again - thanks to a small but passionate group of local volunteers. We’ve worked hard to get it up and running, but now we need help to build a simple website that will put the hall back on the map and connect us with our community. 

What support do we need? 

We’re looking for a volunteer with website design and development experience to help us create a clean, user-friendly site. Nothing flashy, we just need a basic, easy-to-maintain website that can host key information, photos, booking details, and updates. We currently don’t have internet access at the hall, so support will need to be remote and communication flexible. 

What does success look like? 

A straightforward website that we can update ourselves and that helps the public understand who we are, what’s on offer, and how to hire the space. Bonus points if you can help us choose the best (free or low-cost) platform. 

What’s the impact? 

Your support will help re-establish a vital community hub and make sure the village hall thrives for years to come. 

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Community | Training | Remote or Face to Face

LinkedIn is our key social media channel and we would like to improve the quality of our graphics for the platform to increase our reach and engagement. We would love a graphic designer to create some visually appealing branded templates we can easily edit ourselves. It would also be great if you could give us some tips for improving our designs and advice on what formats currently work well on LinkedIn (eg, carousels vs MP4, more designed imagery vs photography). We use Canva so the templates would need to be created there. Ultimately, we want to increase engagement with our advocacy work and resources among tourism professionals. 

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Women and Girls | Creating | Remote

We’re looking for a compassionate and skilled filmmaker to help us create a 1–2 minute introductory film for a small mental health charity supporting people through unexpected pregnancy and early parenthood.

The aim is to communicate who we are, what we offer, and the heart behind our work—free and low-cost counselling delivered with warmth and non-judgment. We already have a clear script, voiceover, and access to a small pool of volunteers willing to use their voice, but we need help bringing it all to life with strong visual storytelling, editing, and production.

We’re seeking a filmmaker with experience in creating emotionally sensitive, human-centred content that can connect with audiences online. The final video will be used on our website, social media, and in fundraising presentations. Success for us looks like a short, compelling film that builds trust with potential clients and supporters, clearly showing the impact and ethos of our service. This project will help us reach more people in need and strengthen our mission of offering calm, compassionate, and professional support during incredibly vulnerable times.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

The task: to produce and edit a 2 minute crowdfunding video which will form a key part of our forthcoming crowdfunding campaign.

• It is more important that the video expresses passion, authenticity and emotion
• A past crowdfunding video can be found here: https://youtu.be/4Vdyu48fNU4
• We all work remotely in the UK, and the cause we are supporting is in Malawi.
• We can provide guidance and frameworks used in past videos

Skills required:

• Video production
• Creative project management
• Ability to remotely direct non-professional presenters
• Video editing in Adobe Premiere
• Subtitling skills
• Access to a computer with Adobe Creative Cloud software
• Strong collaborative skills
• Ability to gather and work with mixed quality assets

Desirable skills:

• Motion graphics, ideally on After Effects or potentially on Canva
• Script-writing
• Basic audio engineering and video grading

Goal: to persuade viewers to pledge to and share the crowdfunding campaign

The impact: through the campaign, we aim to fund a £4,000 to enable girls in Malawi to stay in school when they have their periods. Without menstrual hygiene management support, they miss up to five days of school each month. This leads to increased drop out rates, reduced academic performance, and increased risk of young pregnancies and child marriages.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Education | Creating | Remote