Current Volunteer Opportunities

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

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

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

We are refreshing and restructuring our NationBuilder database to create a clearer, more consistent tagging system that reflects who our supporters are and how they engage with SameYou. Over time, tags have grown organically across campaigns and programmes, making reporting and supporter insight more difficult. We have already designed a new tag framework and completed the strategic planning, and are now looking for a volunteer with NationBuilder or CRM experience to help merge existing tags, apply the new structure, and support a careful data clean-up. Success would mean a streamlined database that allows us to better understand our community, build meaningful supporter journeys, and improve fundraising and partnership reporting. This work will help us communicate more effectively with brain injury survivors, families and supporters, ensuring people receive relevant content and opportunities to engage. Ultimately, a stronger database will enable SameYou to grow sustainably and reach more people recovering from brain injury with the right support at the right time.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Creating | Remote

We’re looking for a skilled web designer or developer to help refresh or rebuild our website, making it a modern, engaging hub for everyone who interacts with our charity. Our current site is a bit dated, and we want it to better showcase the vital support we offer to people affected by brain injury, as well as the amazing work we do for carers and families. We're looking for creative ideas to modernise the website, improve user experience, a design that clearly communicates our services to people seeking help, tools and layouts that help attract and inspire long-term supporters and donors. The impact of your work will help people affected by brain injury find the support they need, show potential donors the value of our work, and help our charity grow so we can continue making a difference.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Disability | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We are looking for a video editor to create a 90 - 120 second promotional video that features clips of our outreach work that we can send to potential donors. All of the video clips and pictures will be provided, as well as a storyboard - it is just a case of editing them together and adding some creative finishing touches. This is the last video we made. We are hoping for something along the same style but shorter.

Focussed Help: 5-8 hours

Education | Creating | Remote or Face to Face

The YMHF (Youth Mental Health Foundation) is looking for help from an experienced SEO expert to boost the visibility of our website. Our core challenge is that while the resources offered through our website are high-quality and free, we need to reach more of the families and educators who desperately need them. We've recently built our new website which has a large library of content, but we lack the technical expertise to optimize it for search engines. We are looking for a volunteer with strong skills in keyword research, on-page optimization, technical SEO auditing, and backlink strategy to help our resources rank higher for relevant search terms. Success for us looks like a significant increase in web traffic and achieving page 1 ranking for key search terms like 'mental health support for parents’ and 'school mental health resources'. This would have a profound impact, helping our mission to provide early access to essential mental health support, directly connecting thousands more struggling families and schools with the vital guidance they need, exactly when they need it.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

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