Current Volunteer Opportunities

Autistic Girls Network (AGN) is the UK's only national charity working exclusively with autistic girls and women, and we are neurodivergent-led at every level. While it has always been possible for people to donate to AGN, we have never formalised this to create a thoughtful "Individual Giving Programme", and we need help turning our engaged online community of over 35,000 people into regular and one-off donors.

We already have a strong, distinctive brand, a volunteer Social Media person, and powerful evidence of impact to draw on, but we do not yet have a dedicated fundraising social media strategy or the campaign copy to deliver it. We are looking for a volunteer with social media strategy and copywriting skills, ideally with some experience of supporter journeys or fundraising appeals.

Success would be a clear, practical strategy for our main platforms and a set of ready-to-use posts and appeal copy that we can schedule, test and reuse, helping us grow the number of people who give and move closer to our individual giving target. This would give us sustainable, unrestricted income, enabling us to reach more girls who currently wait years for the understanding and support they deserve.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Women and Girls | 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

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.

Key responsibilities

• Transform survivor stories into engaging narratives 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

Communication Volunteer:

ECPAT UK is seeking a volunteer podcast editor to support the production of a new podcast series focused on issues related to child exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery. The role will involve editing approximately three hours of recorded audio and shaping it into 3–4 engaging, high-quality podcast episodes. The volunteer will be responsible for cleaning and enhancing audio, structuring episodes in line with a provided brief, and ensuring consistency in sound and tone across the series. This includes applying branding elements and ensuring the final episodes are polished and ready for publication.

Key requirements:

• Experience with audio editing
• Familiarity with Adobe audio editing software and Audacity
• Ability to follow briefs and directions provided prior to editing
• Strong organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to estimate editing time for tasks

Desirable:

• An understanding of the sector we work in, including child exploitation, trafficking, and modern slavery

Benefits of volunteering with us:

• Access to training on safeguarding, child exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery
• Flexible, fully remote volunteering
• Volunteering opportunities in other areas of ECPAT UK

In depth Project: 13-16 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 experiencing an acute suicidal crisis through a unique, non-medical psychosocial model.

Following our reopening in 2024, we are seeking support from an advertising agency to develop a compelling fundraising campaign that raises awareness, inspires action and helps secure long-term financial sustainability for our service. While Maytree has a powerful story and a strong reputation among some professional networks, we currently lack the specialist creative expertise to translate this into a memorable public campaign that emotionally connects with potential donors.

We are looking for support with campaign strategy, creative concepts, messaging and the development of assets that could be used across digital, social and print channels.

Success would look like a distinctive fundraising campaign that clearly communicates the life-saving impact of Maytree, increases public awareness, grows individual giving and strengthens relationships with supporters, funders and corporate partners. We would also like the campaign to establish a clear and consistent narrative that positions Maytree as an essential part of the suicide prevention landscape.

Ultimately, increased fundraising will allow us to support more people experiencing acute suicidal distress and ensure fewer people fall through the gap between emergency intervention and community-based support.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

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

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

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 recognise that our website is too complex and does not clearly serve our two key audiences: people who need help and people who want to give help.

We are seeking a volunteer with expertise in website design, user experience, information architecture and digital storytelling to help us create a simpler, more accessible and compassionate website. The redesigned site should make it easy for visitors to find the right information, whether they are seeking support, making a referral, donating, volunteering or exploring partnership opportunities.

Our small team can provide content, organisational knowledge and key messages, but we need specialist support to improve structure, navigation, messaging and calls to action. Success would be a modern, intuitive website with two clear user journeys, stronger engagement and a design our team can maintain.

Ultimately, this work will help more people find life-saving support and enable more supporters, volunteers and partners to contribute to Maytree’s mission.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

Apart of Me has created grieving cards designed by young people who have lost someone significant. Young people told us that Mother's and Father's Day are particularly painful, because nobody knows what to say, so we invited them to create the cards they wished they'd received.

Our Mother's Day TikTok campaign reached nearly three million users, drove over 10,300 unique visitors to our website, and generated thousands of genuine engagements. This Father's Day, we're ready to go bigger.

With a TikTok grant secured and a pro bono agency partnership in place, we are also working with established content creators in the youth and grief space. We need someone to help edit their content and create differentiated versions for our campaign, as well as working alongside the agency team, posting across our social channels, managing community responses, and exploring how our Google Ads grant can amplify reach further.

We're looking for someone who understands TikTok well, has experience editing and adapting short-form video content, and can engage audiences in a way that is warm and thoughtful.

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Children and Young People | Creating | Remote

Learn Together CIC needs support with creating short promotional video adverts for our tutoring, education, and media projects. We want to improve how we advertise our services online, especially through social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube Shorts.

We already have a website, branding, project information, and clear services to promote, but we need a volunteer with experience in creating engaging social media content, influencer-style videos, short adverts, or promotional reels.

The ideal volunteer would be confident in developing content ideas, filming or presenting short ads, writing captions/hooks, and helping us communicate our work clearly and engagingly.

Success would mean producing simple but effective promotional content that helps more families, learners, and volunteers understand what Learn Together CIC offers. This would help us reach more people, grow our community impact, and make our education and media opportunities more visible.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Education | Creating | Remote