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Wed 04 Oct 2017
Our Community Ambassadors are an important network of volunteers who help make a difference to babies born premature and sick by raising awareness of Bliss Scotland's work in their local area.
Wed 04 Oct 2017
We are looking for a fundraising intern to join our small team based at our office in central Edinburgh. As an intern you will have the chance to work at the heart of a small charity, gaining insight into all our work. You will gain experience and knowledge in events and community fundraising.
Fri 29 Sep 2017
We are looking for a talented Graphic Designer to help spread the word. This is an online position and requires no set hours. However, we do require someone who will be dedicated to helping us make a difference. No experience necessary, just the ability to create effective and professional graphic.
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Cyrenians aims to create a sustainable Social Enterprise that takes unwanted wood, tyres, and furniture to create new/upcycled products. We need creative volunteers to help us design new products and DIY volunteers to help us build them.
We are looking for a talented Graphic Designer to help spread the word. This is an online position and requires no set hours. However, we do require someone who will be dedicated to helping us make a difference. No experience necessary, just the ability to create effective and professional graphic.
Activities may include prize and venue sourcing, speaking to companies for support and sponsorship, creating timelines for events, admin such as ticket sales, programmes and thank you letters as well as volunteering at events.
Support the Digital Media & Communications Officer and the Retail Manager in promoting the shops on social media channels; assist with the promotion of events and conferences; create content (photos, text, stories) to engage a wide audience and broaden our online reach; liaise with shop managers to generate stories
Hit Squad volunteers help support clients to decorate their new home.Working in teams of volunteers alongside the client, two rooms will be decorated and the client gains painting experience and emotional support.This opportunity takes place over a full day and we ask a commitment of once a month
Whether it be writing to your local MSP about snares or to the Cairngorms National Park about mountain hares, letter writers make a huge impact to those who receive them. We're looking for people to join our letter writing group and volunteer their writing skills to some of our biggest campaigns.
Are you passionate about the environment? Do you want to help the community? Do you want work experience of working in a team? We are currently looking for help with drying equipment design and manufacturing, events/media and/or campaigning. Roles can be tailored to individual’s specific needs.
To assist in the design and layout of a community magazine. To listen to members of the Press Team and help them produce a magazine that reflects their concerns and assist in editing, proof reading and laying out the magazine.
SHRUB are looking for someone who is comfortable working with Wordpress and can help us improve the layout and design of our website. You would work as part of the Communications and Outreach working group with a team of volunteers that are looking at how people interact with the website and how we develop our web provision.
Come and join us for regular celebrations where you'll play contemporary Christian songs, and work with a worship team during service. You should be willing and ready to learn and play new songs. We are hoping your skills will be a blessing to the congregation. You will develop team working skills, and there will be leadership training. You do not need to be a Christian to join our team.
Food Sharing needs YOU to help us deliver sustainable cooking classes to communities all over Edinburgh. By teaching people basic and flexible recipes, we can give them the confidence to enjoy cooking healthy meals and reduce their food waste at home. Food Sharing Edinburgh runs fun and interactive sustainable cooking classes to teach people no-waste cooking techniques.
We need someone to help us make our merch. If we can print it ourselves, we can save money, teach skills to our volunteers, and be more selective about where we buy our t-shirts and who we buy them from. We want someone who can screen print to train us and our volunteers.
Social Media and Digital Marketing volunteer needed to write, edit and upload content to Facebook, Twitter and website as well as generating traffic and reaching a bigger audience. The BIG Project is a children’s and youth people charity based in Broomhouse, Edinburgh.
Bright Light is Scotland’s leading relationship counselling charity supporting individuals, couples and families across Edinburgh and the Lothians. They have a great opportunity to help support the planning of the charity's 70th anniversary celebrations.
Come and join us for regular celebrations where you'll play contemporary Christian songs, and work with a worship team during service. You should be willing and ready to learn and play new songs. We are hoping your skills will be a blessing to the congregation. You will develop team working skills, and there will be leadership training. You do not need to be a Christian to join our team.
Helping to grow our community of swappers, skill-sharers and shoppers by:
Designing posters and leaflets for distribution around the city;
Designing merchandise such as t-shirts, badges etc for sale;
Sourcing ethical printers and producers;
Assisting with organisation of print runs, budgets and pricing.
Assisting the Workshop Programme Coordinator to put together an exciting and varied programme of events, including creative upcycling and repair workshops, discussions and music nights. This role is logistical but also social, requiring a creative and organised person. You may focus on one or more workshops that you are developing yourself or support with other workshops that are already in planning. More individual responsibility for events can be taken according to experience level.
Edinburgh Tool Library is the UK’s first tool library, promoting sharing as a way of reducing our environmental impact. We've been operating our of a police box in Leith and opened our new Remakery on Leith Walk in 2016.
We need marketing volunteers to help promote the space and the service, whether that be in the form of creative flyers or videos, or helping us strategise.
Support Samaritans communications and campaigns work in Scotland by creating new, interesting and innovative content for social media, engaging with volunteers in our branches across Scotland to capture their experiences, and find new stories and personal experiences to share with the public. You may also support our other communications and campaigns work in Scotland, including our media and press work.
Cyrenians aims to create a sustainable Social Enterprise that takes unwanted wood, tyres, and furniture to create new/upcycled products. We need creative volunteers to help us design new products and DIY volunteers to help us build them.
Helping to grow our community of swappers, skill-sharers and shoppers by:
promoting events and workshops on social media and the website;
sourcing and sharing blogs on the website;
building links with like minded people and organisations online;
creating social media graphics;
taking photos.