Current Volunteer Opportunities
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Choices
Marketing expert needed to design/help implement strategy to reach new audiences
As our charity has grown we provide a wider range of services and we now reach a more diverse audience. This has highlighted challenges in concisely communicating our core message. To address this, we seek support in strengthening brand communications for more effective marketing and fundraising.
We hope to work with someone who can:
- Review our marketing materials to evaluate strengths and weaknesses
- Create a marketing strategy that reflects the charity’s evolution
- Help address communication issues around sensitive topics (e.g., unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy choice)
- Support with tailoring messages for different audiences, such as vulnerable clients, donors, and faith-based organisations
- Deepen our understanding of our audience needs and support with creating specific copywriting and marketing materials
Success would be measured by improved marketing materials and clearer communication, helping to reach more clients and diversify funding. This would enable us to achieve our vision of making sure the no-one in London faces a pregnancy crisis alone.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Mental Health | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Branding Brand guidelines, Mission, vision and values
Copywriting Copy, Copy guidelines, Specific audiences, Tone of voice
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
Alder Trust
Graphic designer needed to design resources we use with young people
We have created several games, activities and resources that we use in schools to teach pupils about all things that affect relationships. We would like to have these professionally produced so we can sell them to schools and parents. This means more young people benefitting from conversations around relationships and will give us a new income stream, making our charity more sustainable.
We have already created the resources and have researched where we can get them produced but we need a graphic designer to do a better job of designing each one.
We have emoji cards, a media pairs card game, a board game that addresses stereotypes, a card game addressing what young children do if they accidentally see 'bad pictures' online, and a booklet for teachers with activity ideas to develop empathy in their pupils.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Community | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Photography Consent forms, Editing, Photographing an event/shoot
Home-Start South West Kent
Marketing/Social media advice needed for volunteer recruitment campaign
We are a volunteer-led charity, with around 70 volunteers and 6 paid staff. Our volunteers typically respond to our Facebook ads, however, we need support in updating these to ensure that we continue to receive enquiries from interested potential volunteers. Without our volunteers, we couldn't support our families.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Family | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Storytelling
Ffrindiau Gwyllt / Wild Friends
Wanted: Digital Wizard for Wild Friends
Grow with Wild Friends: Help Build Our Digital Future and Support Wildlife, Biodiversity and Wellbeing
We’re a small but driven social enterprise with a big mission—to restore a degraded ancient woodland and its biodiversity. We’re also growing native wildflowers and trees from seed to protect local species and offering therapeutic horticulture to our community. The only thing we’re not so great at? Building our digital presence! That’s where you come in. If you're a marketing master with a knack for websites, we’d love your help to create a site and craft a strategy to spread the word about our wild, wonderful work. 🌳✨
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Rural Communities | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Redesign
St Mary's church
Social media help to review Facebook and publicity and develop strategy
Most local people will have seen St Mary's church, but are unaware of the opportunities, events and activities we offer, from services, community support and facilities.
Our Vicar and volunteers post regularly to Facebook including live streaming some services (Facebook 463 likes 611 followers). We take photos. We design graphics on Canva and post them to Facebook and print/copy. We share events via our notices (printed, email, Facebook (events), and free on our website and other sites - the Town Crier also promotes our events). We have a Next Door account and post to that. We post volunteer opportunities online (charity Job, Indeed, Restless, Do-it, Neighbourly etc) and fundraisers. We occasionally make the press and our Vicar recently featured in a local podcast.
We are looking for skills such as graphic design, copy and strategy skills.
We would love to increase our reach and engagement to raise awareness. The goal is for more people to attend events, book (hire) our space and get involved as volunteers to help our community etc.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Faith | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Marketing Campaign planning, Marketing copy, Marketing strategy, Storytelling
The Talent Tap
WordPress wizard need to bring a concept to life
We have a new brand and a new website designed, we now need life breathing into it. We use WordPress and are looking for someone to bring our wireframe to the world. We are a small charity and use our website (coupled with social media) as our window to the world of young people and corporate businesses. Simply put, the better the website the more engagement we get, the more money we raise and the more disadvantaged young people we can help.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Employment and Training | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Website Redesign, User experience, User interface design
The Finchley Charities
Communications expert required to create internal and external comms strategy
We’re looking for a volunteer to design our internal and external communications strategy based on resident feedback, to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, trustees, partner organisations and the wider community. The strategy must be mindful of digital exclusion as we work with older people.
Existing resources include quarterly newsletter (paper copies), Office 365, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram accounts (sparse existing content), website, policies on GDPR, Social Media and Media Usage and photo permissions forms. We also have come up with some survey questions and have a colleague able to conduct this survey, so surveying can be done in-house if required.
Desirable skills include strategy design skills, consulting and survey analysis skills, and presentation skills to clearly convey the new strategy to colleagues.
The desired outcome is a comprehensive communications strategy to guide colleagues in communicating with residents, partners, trustees and the wider community, including an outline of how we should use digital communications.
Desired impacts: clearer and more effective communication with residents; facilitating resident access to services and social events and strengthening the community; raising awareness of TFC; strengthening our online presence to facilitate grant bids; allowing us to collaborate better with partners and volunteers; reaching more prospective residents.
In depth Project: 13-16 hours
Older people | Mentoring | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Breathe Easy Westminster
Re-design Mail Chimp communications and domain for Respiratory Group
We need to redesign our Mailchimp platform, which currently manages 400 email contacts. Each month, it sends invitations and reports for Zoom sessions, updates for Ada Court, and a quarterly newsletter.
We also need to transpose full member data from Google Sheets to enable targeted communication (e.g., disease research). Additionally, we would like to discuss the feasibility of SMS texting, design campaigns, and improve the Mailchimp web domain design: http://www.breatheasywestminster.com.
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Website Redesign
Hillside
Graphic Designer Needed to Bring Hillside’s Vision to Life
Support needed: Hillside Clubhouse is seeking a talented graphic designer to create and bring to life our branding and marketing materials.
As part of our 25th-anniversary preparations, we need updated marketing and communications templates and up to three iterations of an updated logo for board consideration. Your creative skills will help us visually communicate our mission and services to the community.
Skills required: We are looking for a volunteer with expertise in graphic design and experience in creating marketing templates. Skills in logo design and digital content creation are particularly beneficial.
Success goals: Success means developing visually compelling materials that align with our brand identity and effectively communicate our mission. We aim to enhance our community presence and attract more individuals to our services.
Impact: Your designs will help translate our mission into engaging visual content that highlights our successes and the stories of those we support, strengthening our ability to empower individuals with mental health challenges to achieve their career goals and improve their lives.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Mental Health | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Advertising Copy, Graphics
Branding Logo design, Rebrand, Templates design
Derbyshire Children's Holiday Centre
Social media expert with Instagram/Tik Tok experience
We have a large group of regular supporters who are Boomers and are ageing rapidly. To grow our donor base we need to reach out to younger audiences through social media. We have a good following to start from on Facebook and Linkedin but no engagement on Instagram and no TikTok at all. We need someone to help us to reach and engage this new audience! Are you up for a challenge?
Mini Project: 9-12 hours
Children and Young People | Creating | Remote or Face to Face
Skills requested
Photography Photographing an event/shoot
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