Graphic designer volunteer roles in birmingham

DeeMaRa Foundation

The DeeMaRa Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the lives of abandoned children, the elderly, and the disabled in South Africa. Through education, vocational training, and storytelling, we provide opportunities for personal growth, independence, and community support.

Founded in 2016 and officially registered in 2019, our foundation was built on the belief that every individual deserves dignity, support, and the chance to thrive. By offering structured programs and safe spaces for learning, expression, and skill development, we aim to restore hope and empower lives.

Graphic Designer

Support DeeMaRa’s visual storytelling by refining book layouts, affirmation posters, and launch assets using Canva and Amazon KDP. Help resolve recent paperback rejections (including coloring books) and prepare editable templates for multilingual editions — starting with South African languages and expanding globally once translations are ready. If possible, create a short video or guide showing how the formatting issues were solved, so we can apply the same process to future books and translations.

Minimum Hours per Week:

4-6 hours per week

Duration:

3-4 weeks

Volunteer Opportunity: Graphic Designer - Build EchoLabs Youth Brand

Role Title: Volunteer Graphic Designer - Brand Identity & Logo

Location: Remote

Time Commitment: Flexible

Start Date: ASAP

About EchoLab:

EchoLab is a new youth-led charity launching in London to empower young people aged 13 to 26 years old through creativity, tech and mentorship. We're building safe, vibrant spaces where young people can explore coding, music, digital storytelling, and much more - while receiving guidance from mentors who reflect their lived experience.

We're now seeking a visionary graphic designer to help us create a bold, inclusive brand identity that resonates with young Londoners and reflects our mission.

What You'll Do As Our Graphic Designer

• Design EchoLab's Logo: A dynamic, memorable logo that captures our energy, values, and youth-led spirit.
• Build A Brand Identity: Develop a cohesive visual style - colours, typography, and mood - that feels fresh, inclusive and empowering.
• Create Core Assets: Design templates for social media, flyers and our website.

Who We're Looking For

• A creative thinker with a strong design portfolio.
• Experience in branding, logo design, and youth-facing visuals.
• Passion for youth empowerment, inclusion, and social impact.

​What You'll Get

• A high impact branding project for your portfolio.
• Creative freedom and collaboration with a youth-led team.
• Recognition in our annual review and report, our social media and launch materials.
• The chance to shape a brand that inspires a generation.

How To Apply

Send your Portfolio and tell us;

1. Why you're interested.
2. What youth-facing brands or styles inspire you.
3. Your availability and preferred working style.

East London Waterworks Park is looking for illustrators, animators and graphic designers to help campaign in the creation of our new park with natural swimming ponds.

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-led charity that has won a 2024 New London Architecture award and raised £2m towards buying land from the Department for Education to transform the 14-acre Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road on the border of Waltham Forest and Hackney, into a new biodiverse park with natural swimming ponds, forest schools and community spaces. 

We are looking for illustrators, animators and graphic designers to contribute to our community-led working circle who are working on coordinating our digital marketing. 

There is opportunity to lead on projects across content creation, social media, film or any other channels of interest, and facilitate the direction of the working circle.

The Comms Circle currently meets fortnightly on a Tuesday evening on Google Meet and spends voluntary time outside of the meeting completing agreed tasks remotely.

While technical skills are essential, we also value your ability to think creatively and strategically. You should have experience in creating engaging visual content for various platforms that will engage stakeholders and decision makers, such as public reports, presentations for decision makers, social media and websites. A strong understanding of storytelling and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively through visuals will be invaluable. You should be comfortable with community-led processes. Our roles are quite flexible. We hope that people bring radical imagination, peace with nature, and courageous inclusiveness to the role. 

Contribute to the creation of a new biodiverse community-owned park with free access natural swimming ponds.Your creative talents will be invaluable in bringing the park’s biodiversity to life. Through your illustrations, animations, and graphic designs, you’ll help us create visually captivating content that inspires, educates, and engages our community, stakeholders and decision makers. Your work will play a vital role in fostering a strong connection between people and nature, ultimately creating the park’s future.

Social Friday

Social Friday reinvents the end of the workweek by transforming unproductive Friday hours into a global tradition of purpose, teamwork, and impact—connecting businesses, nonprofits, and communities through hands-on engagement.

Fridays are the least productive time of the week. Work slows down, focus fades, and hours are lost. Social Friday isn’t just a project—it’s a movement. A global tradition in the making that transforms the least productive hours of the week into moments of connection, impact, and purpose, where doing good becomes a habit. Beyond one-time events, Social Friday is designed to scale into a lasting global movement, embedding social impact into work culture and everyday life.

How It Works

A scalable platform connects businesses, NGOs, and volunteers, transforming Fridays into a global force for change through engagement, collaboration, and gamification. By integrating leaderboards, challenges, badges, and rewards, Social Friday keeps participation exciting and fosters a culture where social impact becomes part of the routine.

This isn’t just about reducing disengagement. It is about transforming the way society, nonprofits, and businesses connect, creating a future where social impact is a shared responsibility, embedded into everyday life. Social Friday has the power to turn the least productive time of the week into the most meaningful, a global tradition, the Olympics of Giving Back.

Graphic Designer

VISUAL STORYTELLER WITH A PASSION FOR PURPOSE - IT’S TIME TO DESIGN IMPACT!

If you see design as a way to move people and video as a tool to inspire change, then this might be the role you've been waiting for.
At Social Friday, we’re not just creating content—we’re shaping a movement. A mindset. A new way of seeing time, connection, and community.

At Social Friday we turn ordinary Friday afternoons into powerful moments of purpose through storytelling, events, and global collaboration.

Now we’re looking for a creative soul who can bring our mission to life through visuals that resonate, inspire, and connect. If you’re a detail-obsessed, impact-driven designer and video editor with a strong creative eye, we’d love to meet you.

ABOUT THE MISSION Social Friday is the Olympics of Giving Back! Our mission is to transform the least productive hours of the workweek into opportunities for connection, awareness, and action. We work with non-profits, companies, and individuals around the world to make doing good a habit—and a lifestyle.

The Graphic Designer role will be central to how the world sees and feels that mission. Whether it's a bold social media post, a heart-hitting event recap, or a campaign that turns heads and starts conversations—you’ll be the one making sure every pixel has purpose.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design engaging visual content for digital platforms, campaigns, presentations, and events
• Edit short-form videos for social media, pitch decks, and post-event storytelling
• Collaborate with the marketing, content, and events teams to translate ideas into compelling visual stories
• Help shape and maintain a cohesive visual identity across all channels
• Take initiative in proposing new formats, design trends, and video concepts that elevate our mission
• Ensure that every piece of content reflects Social Friday’s bold, warm, and purpose-driven voice

QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience as a graphic designer and video editor with a strong portfolio
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator, Photoshop, + Premiere Pro, After Effects) or equivalent tools
• A strong sense of typography, layout, colour, and motion design
• Ability to adapt and create within brand guidelines while bringing fresh ideas to the table
• Passionate about social impact, visual storytelling, and meaningful communication
• Self-starter with excellent time management and attention to detail

JOIN THE MOVEMENT This isn’t just about creating content. It’s about designing a better way to spend our time, see the world, and connect with each other.
This is the Olympics of Giving Back. And you’ll be the visual voice of the movement.
Are you ready to turn ideas into visuals that move people?

Minimum Hours per Week:

2-3 hours per week

Duration:

1-2 weeks

Jabalie is a UK charity working internationally with survivors and individuals that are at high risk of gender-based violence.

Many victims feel unable to leave their relationship and for those that do, many return to their abuser for a variety of reasons - for example, because they are financially dependent on them, or remain emotionally controlled by them. It takes an average of 7 times for a victim to leave an abusive relationship permanently.

Jabalie is a UK charity that aims to educate and empower survivors and individuals at high-risk of gender-based violence to promote their safety, autonomy and economic independence. We are developing an education and empowerment programme to help build survivors' knowledge, skills and confidence so they can build their lives outside the shelter and become financially independent.

The programme will have 5 areas: (1) Understanding GBV; (2) Skills Development; (3) Legal Rights; (4) Women's Health; and (5) Mental Health. We will also have a training of trainers programme, advocacy against GBV, and are building a community of survivors and GBV activists.Our pilot programme will be created in the UK and Kenya using a model that can be upscaled internationally.

UI/UX Designer

Jabalie is a UK charity that aims to educate and empower survivors and individuals at high-risk of gender-based violence to promote their safety, autonomy and economic independence.

We are seeking a UI/UX (Web) Designer who will be responsible for creating intuitive and user-friendly digital interfaces, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable user experience. The aim is to create intuitive, engaging, and brand-consistent web and digital experiences. They use knowledge of user psychology, design principles, and organisational goals to design websites and other digital channels such as mobile apps.

Key responsibilities include:

• User Experience (UX) Research: Conduct user research to understand user needs, goals, and pain points.
• Design Creation: Create user personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes to guide the design process. Implement a suitable sitemap and information architecture.
• Collaboration: Work closely with technical developers to implement website designs effectively. Work with other creative teams to produce a clear, visual, vision for the brand.
• User Interface (UI) Elements: Develop a UI component library for design graphic user interface elements such as menus, tabs, and widgets. Ensure all design elements, templates and finished solutions work within a variety of browser types and screen settings.
• Graphic design: create typography, using colour theory, photo direction, vector manipulation, motion graphics, etc. Adhere to style standards and brand guide on typography and graphic design.
• Testing and Iteration: Test designs and iterate based on user feedback and testing results for continued improvement on user experience.

This role is crucial in ensuring that our website or mobile apps are visually appealing, user-centric and easy to navigate.

Qualification and personal qualities:

• Experience as a UI/UX Designer or a web designer with good UX design knowledge
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS; JavaScript is a plus
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Analytical mind with a business acumen
• Excellent communication skills

A key aspect of this role will be site mapping navigation, page design of the website and the creation of wire frames.

Desirable: using the website page design to create consistent social media template designs for Instagram/ LinkedIn.

We are looking for an applicant that can start immediately and work alongside two other volunteers in our existing website team.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

Minimum Hours per Week:

2-3 hours per week

Duration:

3-5 months