Hero From Home

be a hero from home

Be a hero from home! 

These pages offer information, guidance and practical resources on ways you can get involved in lots of different volunteering opportunities and activities from home.

Refer to and click on the buttons below to visit pages we have developed on volunteering and find how you can support voluntary groups and organisations across the sector. 

If you are a group or organisation and would like to add an opportunity or a resource to the Hero From Home microsite, please use the contact us form.

Volunteering Opportunities

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Community Support Volunteer
Summary: Join the Government led Communities for Afghans programme. We are looking for UK based individuals or groups to form a team of 6 volunteers supporting an Afghan family. Friends, neighbours, colleagues, faith groups, veterans and community organisations are all welcome, in Wales, West Midlands, Scotland or remotely. With full training and ongoing support, your group will help find housing, guide the family through schools, healthcare and local services, and help them feel they belong. You commit for three years as they grow in confidence and independence. Full training and expenses covered. Make a real difference.
Area of Interest: Befriending, Migrants & Refugees
Charity Governance Trustee
Summary: Charity Governance Trustee - MileShyClub is a preventative health charity. We help people who feel excluded from traditional fitness settings become more active, supporting their physical and mental health now and reducing the risk of health problems in the future. We do this through welcoming running, walking, mental health and Restore groups. Our guiding principle is simple: no one gets left behind.
Area of Interest: Disability, Mental Health, Migrants & Refugees, Older People, Sports & Movement
BrightsideConnect Mentoring
Summary: Brightside Connect is our online mentoring programme for 16–18-year-olds who are currently in sixth form or college across the country. Running during the autumn term, your support as a mentor will be invaluable, using your experience to help your mentee(s) to understand their next steps after school. Over a 10-week period, you might help them to explore university courses, write a CV, practice interview technique, revise for exams, and much more. All mentoring is our platform, you just need access to a mobile/tablet and no need to travel anywhere.
Area of Interest: Advice & Employment, Education & Literacy, Mentoring, Student Volunteers (18+), Virtual Volunteering
Content Creator - News/Media
Summary: Together Media is Learn Together CIC’s community media project, covering current affairs, social issues and stories that matter to local communities.

Volunteers can get involved in:

Researching topics and developing content ideas

Presenting short videos and explainers

Preparing and taking part in interviews and podcasts

Filming, editing and producing social media content

No previous experience is required, as training and ongoing support will be provided. This is also a great opportunity for media and film students to gain practical experience and build their professional portfolios.

The role is flexible, with both remote and in-person opportunities available in Manchester.
Area of Interest: Arts Culture & Music, Campaigning & Advocacy, Children Young People & Families, Digital and Tech, Education & Literacy, Health & Social Care, LGBTQ+, Marketing & Social Media, Mental Health, Mentoring, Migrants & Refugees, Race Ethnicity & Religion, Student Volunteers (18+), Virtual Volunteering, Young Volunteers (under 18)
Volunteer tutor - English or maths
Summary: Every child deserves the chance to succeed, regardless of their background. Action Tutoring is a charity dedicated to closing the attainment gap and creating a more equitable future for young people.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Virtual Volunteering
Volunteer Skills Coach
Summary: At The Access Project, we support young people from under-resourced backgrounds to overcome barriers to opportunity. As a volunteer coach, you’ll enable young people to develop essential skills, setting them up for success at university and in their future career. You’ll do this by delivering six online one-to-one coaching sessions over the course of the programme, which runs from January to June 2027.
Area of Interest: Advice & Employment, Children Young People & Families, Education & Literacy, Mentoring, Virtual Volunteering
Vegan Outreach Advocate
Summary: Every time we launch or refocus on a campaign, you will be sent a collection of tasks to choose from. These could include writing to an MP, posting on social media, or finding locations for our leaflets nearby.
Area of Interest: Animals, Campaigning & Advocacy, Environment & Conservation, Events, Virtual Volunteering
Finance Trustee
Summary: Finance Trustee - MileShyClub is a preventative health charity helping people who feel intimidated by exercise to become more active through welcoming running, walking, mental health and Restore groups. Our guiding principle is simple: no one gets left behind.
Area of Interest: Disability, Finance & Fundraising, Mental Health, Migrants & Refugees, Sports & Movement
Human Resources Volunteer
Summary: We Hold a Hand is a charity focused on connecting Africans and Carribeans with professional therapists, helping raise mental health awareness and providing culturally relevant mental health support to these communities worldwide. They are looking for volunteers to help in a variety of different roles.
Area of Interest: Administration, Events, Mental Health, Virtual Volunteering
Volunteer host
Summary: To provide clean, safe, basic overnight accommodation, evening meal and breakfast to the guest (young person)

To liaise with the Nightstop service team regarding availability and to provide regular feedback after every placement.

To attend initial training programme prior to undertaking role and attend periodic training and support during the course of the role.

To adhere to the terms of Nightstop Manchester policies currently in force and its Code of Practice.

To contribute positively to the continuous development of the service/team.

To observe clear professional boundaries in our relations with the young people we work with.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Homelessness & Housing
HR and People Trustee
Summary: HR and People Trustee - MileShyClub is a preventative health charity helping people who feel intimidated by exercise to become more active through welcoming running, walking, mental health and Restore groups. Our guiding principle is simple: no one gets left behind.
Area of Interest: Disability, Mental Health, Migrants & Refugees, Older People, Sports & Movement
Social Media / Content Creation
Summary: We Hold a Hand are looking for social media/content creation volunteer.
Area of Interest: Events, Finance & Fundraising, Marketing & Social Media, Mental Health, Virtual Volunteering
Social Media Assistant
Summary: Help to create hype for The Plastic Free Gathering 2027 by creating engaging social media posts
Area of Interest: Environment & Conservation, Events, Marketing & Social Media, Virtual Volunteering
Community Awareness Volunteer
Summary: By organising and delivering awareness talks, hosting information stands, and engaging with groups, you will help educate others and inspire action. You'll use and grow your local knowledge, connections and networks to arrange and deliver awareness raising activities in your local community.. You will identify opportunities, audiences and spaces to connect with community members and share key prostate cancer risk awareness messages. Role is with Prostate Cancer UK.
Area of Interest: Health & Social Care
Community Outreach Ambassadors
Summary: The ATML CIC Choir, a Manchester-based Community Interest Company, is seeking Volunteer Community Outreach Ambassadors to help combat social isolation and loneliness through choral music. As a Volunteer you will be responsible for representing the choir to local stakeholders, coordinating information distribution, and executing grassroots advocacy campaigns to help the organization reach potential beneficiaries and its goal of over 60 active members within 3 years of operation. The role supports a diverse and inclusive social enterprise model that combines cultural activities with social and legal support services. This role is hybrid.
Area of Interest: Arts Culture & Music, Campaigning & Advocacy, Marketing & Social Media, Mental Health, Virtual Volunteering
Volunteer Therapists
Summary: Grief Encounter are looking for qualified and experienced volunteer therapists who can see clients either online or in person at a young persons' school. They ask that therapists are registered with a governing body and have insurance.
Area of Interest: Children Young People & Families, Health & Social Care, Mental Health, Virtual Volunteering
Training Coordinator / Assistant
Summary: Help organisations and businesses across the UK take action on (single-use) plastic effectively by researching and organising training courses for a UK network
Area of Interest: Administration, Environment & Conservation, Events
Community Fundraising Group Leader
Summary: We're looking for an enthusiastic Volunteer Fundraising Team Leader to help grow and support a volunteer fundraising team in Machester while working alongside other Team Leaders across the UK to share ideas, inspire success and maximise our impact.
Area of Interest: Campaigning & Advocacy, Events, Finance & Fundraising, Virtual Volunteering
IntoTech Mentoring
Summary: Brightside are looking for mentors to support us with our technology based programme IntoTech in partnership with HG Foundation and Futures for All. The programme will connect 2,000 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds across the country with professionals working across different technology roles, helping them explore future career opportunities in tech.
Area of Interest: Advice & Employment, Befriending, Mentoring, Student Volunteers (18+), Virtual Volunteering