Volunteering opportunities
Heres a sample of our current volunteering opportunities. Please click on the links to our postings on do-it.org.uk, where you can read more information and submit an online application.
Newest opportunity!
Interested in a career in marketing or public relations? We're looking for a communications assistant to support our Communications and Marketing team in our office. You'll provide administrative support as well as develop media relations skills including writing, event organisation and media evaluation.
Advisory Group Member - Self Harm
Your role as an advisory group member is to help make TheSite.org/selfharm a valuable and useful online self harm resource centre. We will need your comments and suggestions on how to improve the content and services that will be on TheSite.org/selfharm. The group will be encouraged to share their views and collaborate together by periodically taking part in online discussions covering different aspects of the project. This pilot project aims to provide young people in the UK (aged 16-25) with high quality information, resources and support on the issue of self-harm. It is a consortium project, lead by YouthNet, with 42nd Street and Depaul Trust. Funding for the pilot has been made available through the Camelot Foundation.
Other volunteering opportunities
Answer questions about relationships
Interested in becoming a relationships advisor? Volunteer as an online peer advisor and support young people by answering their questions on relationships. Set up in 2003, askTheSite offers young people access to individual, confidential and expert advice, answering their questions through a safe and secure part of TheSite.org. Your time and skills can make a big difference to our capacity to deal with young people's concerns.
Write for TheSite
Aspiring journalists: here is your chance to get a piece of work reviewed, edited and published on one of YouthNet's websites. You can be a ranter and talk about something that that's really got on your wick. Or, become a diary writer and submit lively entries on your work, travels or a special circumstance. And, if you have more ideas for informative articles for TheSite, consider a stint as a volunteer journalist.
Blog about your volunteering
Can your volunteering experience in the health & social care field inspire others? Are you an engaging writer? You may be a perfect candidate to write a blog for do-it.org.uk. Share your experiences as a volunteer blogger - your motivations, the challenges you face and the rewards you gain.
Get those creative cells working
Apply your skills as a photographer or an artist, and add some more colour to our websites. We go through a massive amount of images for articles, promotional work, email updates and even blog entries. So we're always on the lookout for TheSite photographers.
How to apply
Click on the links to our postings on do-it.org.uk where you can read more information about the opportunity. You may submit an online application to any opportunity by registering on do-it.org.uk.
Someone from YouthNet's volunteering team will respond within a workweek with more information about the opportunity, including the next steps in the recruitment process. Depending on the role, these may include writing a letter about your interest in the opportunity, completing an exercise, or having an informal interview with one of us by telephone or in person.
We hope to hear from you!