Current Volunteer Opportunities
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Every Casualty Counts
Film-maker/editor needed for special event in London
We have a very special event happening in London on 9 November and we're looking for someone to film it and edit the highlights into clips we can use for social media. Because of the nature of our work, it's not usually very easy to illustrate it to the public online. We hope that some good clips from an event like this will help address this and provide us with valuable material as we move into online fundraising. Thank you!
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Human Rights | Creating | Face to face
Skills requested
Photography Photographing an event/shoot
Charity Details
Every Casualty Counts works with casualty recording organisations around the world to ensure all victims of armed conflict are accurately identified, documented, and acknowledged. We support, raise awareness of, and promote the careful recording of casualties worldwide, and provide technical advice on the methodology and practice of casualty recording. We also research aspects of casualty recording, including its procedures, development, legal basis, and impacts. The ultimate aim of our work is to save lives, relieve suffering, and support sustainable conflict resolution.
The global death rate from armed conflicts is increasing, almost doubling from 120,000 in 2021 to 237,000 in 2022. In some contexts, over 90 per cent of fatalities are civilians, including children, women and the elderly.
Despite the growing need, there is still a dire lack of support for recording and identifying those who have died. The task is seen as too hard, or not a priority compared to addressing the urgent humanitarian needs of the living.
However, casualty records are essential for tens of thousands of families to know the fate of their loved ones. Survivors need documentary evidence to seek justice, receive compensation, or claim inheritance rights. Transparent records are vital for countering misinformation and historical revisionism.
Location: South East
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://everycasualty.org
Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW)
Advice needed about Wix – for memberships, events coordination, marketing & more
We are a network supporting 300+ evaluators across the charity sector. We provide training and facilitate connection, shared learning, and innovation. Our vision is a world where charities and funders are more impactful and effective. Our members include Comic Relief, Citizens Advice, Breast Cancer Now, Crisis, Macmillan and more.
As a membership organisation, we run everything on Wix (e.g. subscriptions, events, e-mail campaigns, our website). However, this was set up a long time ago and we don't have a good understanding of it. In particular, we struggle to analyse and manage our membership data.
We are looking for someone to offer practical advice for how to make the best use of the functions, and potentially make quick improvements (if feasible). This should be straightforward for someone familiar with Wix.
The opportunity to strengthen our work and the work of our members is huge! We are a tiny organisation, funded entirely by the services we deliver. We have 0.3FTE staff and a £25k annual budget! Any help would be gratefully received. We can be flexible with working arrangements, (i.e. over what period and at what times we engage).
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Organisations that support other charities | Mentoring | Remote
Skills requested
Charity Details
We are a network supporting 300+ evaluators across the UK charity sector to improve the field of of evaluation. We provide training and facilitate connection, shared learning, and innovation. Our vision is a world where charities and funders are more impactful and effective. Our members include Comic Relief, Citizens Advice, Breast Cancer Now, Crisis, Macmillan and many more.
Location: Greater London
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://www.chewgroup.org.uk/
Mummys Star
Creative social media volunteer needed for maternal cancer campaign
We are preparing to launch a campaign on maternal rights for women and birthing people diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or postpartum in the UK, and we are looking for practical, hands-on support to help our content reach and engage as many people as possible.
We have campaign messaging, stories, and statistics ready, but we need help creating content that resonates, particularly in formats that extend beyond our usual audience, such as short videos, social media-friendly graphics, or interactive posts.
We’re especially keen on advice and support around what types of content perform best, how to adapt our stories for different platforms, and how to maximise reach with limited resources.
We are looking for a volunteer with experience in social media content creation, audience engagement, and video or multimedia production. Success would be a set of practical recommendations and content examples we can use immediately to launch our campaign effectively.
Your support will directly help us amplify the voices of women and birthing people affected, raise awareness of their challenges, and drive engagement with our campaign, ensuring our launch has the greatest possible impact.
Focussed Help: 5-8 hours
Women and Girls | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Charity Details
Mummy’s Star is the only charity in the UK and Ireland dedicated to women and birthing people diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or within 12 months of giving birth, and their families.
Our mission is to provide cancer support to every family facing this traumatic situation.
Location: North West
Size of Organisation: Micro
Website: https://www.mummysstar.org/
FareShare South West
Graphic designer needed to help us wrap a double-decker bus
We got an incredible offer to wrap a double-decker with our livery. We could never pay for this kind of advertising, so this is game-changing - but the design agency we chose to complete the one paid element (the artwork itself) has gone into liquidation. We’re out of pocket, without a design, and need to act now to stop this amazing opportunity from slipping away.We already have photography, copy and draft artwork and can supply our brand guidelines. We need someone with the skills to create the large-scale print-ready files to go into production.A branded bus on the streets of Plymouth would support our hub team to recruit 60 new regular volunteers over the next 12 months. It will raise awareness of our name locally to support our winter Big Give fundraiser and recruit new food and corporate partners.Over 340 smaller charities, schools and community groups rely on us to send them weekly food deliveries, all drawn from food that would otherwise go to waste. Last year, we shared food for over 4 million meals. We’re integral to healthy food support in the region, and we need your help.
Quick Fix: 1-4 hours
Poverty | Creating | Remote
Skills requested
Charity Details
At FareShare South West we join the dots between food waste and hunger, empowering communities to turn an environmental problem into lasting social good.
We rescue tonnes of quality surplus food from the industry and share it with charities and schools to bring health, dignity and routes out of poverty for people across the south west. Our supportive volunteering and employability programmes offer local people the opportunity to thrive.
FareShare South West is an independent local charity, working in partnership with national charity FareShare who support us with food, projects and raising awareness of food justice for all.
Location: South West
Size of Organisation: Medium
Website: https://faresharesouthwest.org.uk/
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