Opportunities of the month

 

Opportunities are listed on this page because we've recently talked with the charity and we know that they are ready to work with a volunteer. Are you that volunteer?

Click on the link on the opportunity name below to go directly to the opportunity you're interested in on our website. Alternatively search the full database of available opportunities by signing-in to your account and selecting "Search for Opportunities".

If you'd like to be alerted to opportunities as soon as they are added to the site why not subscribe to our RSS feed?

Opportunity Name: Can you advise about CMS websites please?
Skill Type: Website
Region: South East
Locality: Nr Aylesbury
Postcode: HP18
Virtual: Yes

Description: This charity based near Aylesbury brings people and organisations together to create safe and stronger communities through sustainable solutions to the problems of crime and social exclusion. They currently have a WordPress website, which they find a bit limiting and would like some advice about other CMS options. They are considering a password protected area & a discussion board. Please can you help advise about their best options, oversee the transfer and help get them up and running on the new CMS (including advice about ongoing maintenance)? This project is suitable for a non-local volunteer but one initial project initiation visit would be really helpful. London and Birmingham transport links are good. Thank you.

Opportunity Name: Carers charity - CMS website advice please [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: North Finchley
Postcode: N20
Virtual: Yes

Description: This Barnet area charity provides vital support for people who are carers for family members with care needs - disability, ill health etc. They provide support for 4,500 carers including 340 young carers - children who support a sibling, parent or guardian. The small staff team and 80 volunteers provide relief from the stress and loneliness that a carers role can bring. They have many events and rely on local donations and support. A website would really support the work they do. Please can you help them look at a way to implement a low cost or free CMS website that they can easily update, can link with the Royal Carers Trust and has a secure members area? Initially they would like help to look at their options but they would also like help to implement the website. Please can you help either with the specification or the entire project?

Opportunity Name: Overhaul Website and Implement CMS
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: E2
Virtual: No

Description: This community centre based near Shoreditch and Liverpool St tube stations provides a range of services to the local community including a pre-school Under 5s Project, youth work, advice sessions, a women's project, and pensioners' clubs. They feel they have a rudimentary web site, which they would like expanded, to make it a more effective resource for different audiences. They would like you to help them to re-think both the design / layout and content of the web site - to improve navigation and user-friendliness and to better promote their general profile. They want new / separate sections being added in relation to funders/supporters; volunteering; news/events; room hire; environmental commitment; organisational history and different project areas, and an enquiry form. Most of all, they want to be able to keep it up to date, so they would like you to implement a suitable content management system, so that they can add new pages, change text and images, and they need you to show their admin staff how to do that.

Opportunity Name: MS Project Training [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Training
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: SE1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based near London Bridge tube station is an arts development agency supporting London's vibrant arts and cultural organizations. They support between 300 & 400 thousand arts organizations ! They have a network of PCs running Windows XP and MS Office 2003. They have installed MS Project as a server version so that staff can manage projects collaboratively. They would like an experienced MS Project 2007 user to provide training on how to use MS Project 2007 at beginner level for up to 6 people.

Opportunity Name: ACT! for arts charity
Skill Type: Database
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: SE1
Virtual: No

Description: This charity is an arts development agency supporting London's vibrant arts and cultural organizations. They support between 300 & 400 thousand arts organizations! Crucial to the successful running of this charity is their contact management database. They chose ACT! which they commissioned an IT company to customize but they have ongoing problems that they have lost confidence in their suppliers to resolve. Please can you help them? They are stuck and this is a vital package for them. There are 3 issues they are looking to address: 1) synchronization of ACT! with their Outlook 2003 (there are 13 database users) 2) improvements to the search interface/functionality and 3) improvements of the reports and advice about how to get better reporting. If you would be able to help with any/all of the above please request their details, they would be pleased to hear from anyone with good ACT! knowledge. Thank you.

Opportunity Name: New Brochure-Type Website with CMS and Online Donations
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: WALTHAMSTOW
Postcode: E17
Virtual: Yes

Description: The aim of this newish charity based near Stratford tube station is to relieve poverty and distress, protect and preserve good health and advance education, primarily but not exclusively in India, by the provision of financial assistance, equipment and facilities to improve and develop schools, clean water supplies, self help projects, medical aid with the object of improving the conditions of life for the needy. They need a brochure-type website with CMS and online donations, and a contact form. They're thinking about the design and content, but most of the content will need to be added later as they get projects going, so you'll need to show them how to use the CMS to do this. They need your guidance about choosing a domain name and hosting, and registering for both. They'll also need your help with structuring content and registering with a suitable payment provider, such as PayPal, and setting up and taking online donations. As they have no premises, most of the work will need to be done remotely.

Opportunity Name: Redesign Website and Provide Advice
Skill Type: Website
Region: London
Locality: Haringey
Postcode: N17
Virtual: Yes

Description: This Tottenham charity based near White Hart Lane station is an umbrella support organisation providing advice and support to groups and organisations providing activities and services to children and young people when they are not at school. They promote the importance of play in children's lives and run an open access adventure playground. They have a website which was built for them and which they keep up to date using Dreamweaver, but they don't have the skill or knowledge to do more. They would like your help to make the site more attractive to members and supporters. They have a lot of ideas about other things that might be done on the website, for example, a CMS, online donations, a section for members to maintain their own pages, a section for (older) children to maintain their own pages, add puzzles, a forum for children, a blog. They need your advice about the desirability of adding these features, the costs, the resources needed to maintain and moderate them, and the risks and drawbacks.

Opportunity Name: Create IT Strategy for Small Charity [This is a short task]
Skill Type: Strategy
Region: London
Locality: Haringey
Postcode: N17
Virtual: No

Description: This Tottenham charity based near White Hart Lane station is an umbrella support organisation providing advice and support to groups and organisations providing activities and services to children and young people when they are not at school. They promote the importance of play in children's lives and run an open access adventure playground. They have a peer-to-peer network of 6 PCs running XP and Office, with broadband via an ISDN line. They have security software, and do backup, but they would like this reviewed, and advice on housekeeping and business continuity. They want your guidance about whether they could use IT more effectively, and about the potential costs of any recommendations you make.

Opportunity Name: Regular IT sessions for older people
Skill Type: Trustee
Region: London
Locality: London
Postcode: E2
Virtual: No

Description: This community centre is in a particularly deprived area of Tower Hamlets where health and poverty is an issue for many residents. They operate a number of projects for people of all ages. Older people attend the centre four times a week for various activities, lunch clubs, etc. Until recently they had an IT volunteer showing older people how to use a computer. They would like to continue this service and need a new volunteer. There is a group of about six people interested in learning. The sessions are built around their needs and interests but include using the internet, word processing, etc. Potential volunteers need to be available on Monday mornings between 10 and 12 and will have to undergo a CRB check.

Opportunity Name: Simple Improvements to Website
Skill Type: Website
Region: East of England
Locality: Norwich
Postcode: NR4
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Norwich provides a telephone helpline to victims of domestic violence, and personal support to those who want help dealing with the police, solicitors, and social services. They would like you to change their website so that it shows the local newspaper's content in columnar format (they've already got the newspaper's agreement. They also want to show sponsored adverts, whether as a banner or elsewhere, for which they've got some local sponsors signed up; and possibly, Google Ads too.

Opportunity Name: New website including CMS, Forum and Online Donations
Skill Type: Website
Region: North West
Locality: Merseyside
Postcode: PR8
Virtual: No

Description: This charity based in Southport empowers, supports, trains, and advises the homeless, vulnerably housed and socially excluded. They have 3 offices, all using PCs and MS Office 2003. They had a website which got removed through failure to renew the domain in time, however its design was outdated. They're clear about the overall design they want, and all the content is available. They would like you to build them a website with information pages, a contact form for queries, a forum, a blog, and online donations using PayPal. They need to be able to keep the site up to date from all the offices, so they want you to implement a content management system, and train them how to add and change content and pictures, and add new pages. They also need guidance in arranging hosting. There's an associated opportunity to create an intranet contact management database.

Opportunity Name: Help develop website
Skill Type: Website
Region: Wales
Locality: Cardiff
Postcode: CF3
Virtual: Yes

Description: This long-established large Welsh charity based in Cardiff provides carers for the learning disabled and the elderly throughout Wales. They use Dreamweaver and Contribute to maintain the site, but have recently installed Sharepoint, so they would be particularly interested in hearing from you if you could help them build and develop using Sharepoint.