Current Volunteer Opportunities

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

About usYoung Citizens has been delivering and designing relevant, inspiring and skills-building citizenship education for nearly 40 years, reaching over a million young people to date. As a leading provider of lessons and in-school active citizenship, we help make it possible for all state schools across the UK to deliver compelling and reliable citizenship education that empowers young people to take part in their communities, democracy and society. Through our interactive programmes and free, easy-to-use lessons, we enable schools to find the citizenship offer that fits their needs to nurture knowledgeable, inspired and active young citizens. About the opportunityThe Government has recently committed to backing citizenship education in the curriculum, including making it mandatory in primary schools and expanding its scope across all age groups. We want to capitalise on this and help even more schools access our work. To do this, we need support to tell our story and demonstrate our impact. That's why we are looking for a volunteer copywriter. Can you write for a range of different audiences? Can you influence readers with a compelling story whilst meeting a tight brief? We'd love to hear from you!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Creating | Remote or Face to Face

We have identified that we need a 2-minute video that introduces what we do to use on our website, socials and PR. We need a skilled filmmaker to create a film that will engage viewers and encourage them to take ‘2 minute’ actions.

Success for us would be having a film that speaks to diverse urban youth with the need to protect ocean health and to inspire them to take small, achievable 2 minute actions towards that positive end. This would highlight that doing good for the planet can take a small, simple action; everyone has 2 Minutes. And those 2 minutes can look different for different people, but they are all worthwhile.

This would be an important step in engaging with the next generation and also representing them, creating a virtuous circle. In turn, this would increase our reach on socials and hopefully engage more individuals to take 2 minute actions, thereby eliciting greater collective and positive change.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Environment | Creating | Face to face

We are looking for a filmmaker to film and edit a short film telling the history and stories of St Andrew’s Hospice over the past 40 years to show at celebratory events in 2026.

We would also like a suite of shorter clips from the film that can be shared on social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) throughout the year too.

The short film would translate the history of the hospice into easy-to-digest, engaging content. It would show how we fundraise, how our income is spent, as well as stories from patients and families we have supported throughout the years - showing the impact the hospice has on the local community.

It would be shown at a number of celebratory events taking place throughout 2026, including a Thanksgiving Service on 26th April 2026, to say thank you to the local community who have supported and fundraised for the Hospice over the last 40 years, as well as encourage others to help fund our services for the next 40 years and beyond.

In depth Project: 13-16 hours

Health | Creating | Face to face

In the last 20 years, our charity has developed and expanded what we offer, but our name hasn't evolved with us. It uses outdated language, doesn't communicate our purpose or the communities we serve and now restricts our growth as it's unclear who our services are for.

We need help deciding on a new charity name! We’re looking for expert support with idea generation and guidance to choose a new name that's clear, impactful, visible and fits our mission, audience, and language funders respond to.

We have plenty of ideas and insight into what our name should convey, but lack marketing expertise. Expert advice will help us achieve a clear, well-understood name change, that maintains the trust of our current beneficiaries but gives us improved visibility and inclusivity to new beneficiaries.

It will strengthen our credibility, open new funding opportunities, and improve our recognition as a professional charity, who listens when change is needed and continues delivering valuable work.

Alongside this we will change from Charitable Trust to CIO; updating our governing document with updated language for the neurodivergent conditions of beneficiaries. This is a HUGE change and a big step for us so we want to do this right!

Mini Project: 9-12 hours

Disability | Mentoring | Remote