Volunteers are an important and valued part of People & Planet. Voluntary positions are available based both where you live and in our Oxford office. Please remember that you can also get involved in the People & Planet group in your university or sixth form.
All positions include support and training plus your expenses covered (please check each role description to confirm details).
To apply for a voluntary position, please read the role description and fill out the relevant application form and send it to the address given by the stated deadline. Please don’t hesitate to contact us to find out more about volunteering with People & Planet and the opportunities available.
Current voluntary positions
How to apply
To apply for any of the positions on this page, fill out an application form and return it by the deadline to volunteer@peopleandplanet.org.
- Campaign Advocate
- Media and Communications volunteer
- Blog for People & Planet New opportunity!
- Group Support Volunteer
- Regional Representative
- Redress Fashion Campaign Co-ordinators
- People & Planet: The Movie
- Campaigns Research Volunteers
- Independent Network Volunteering Opportunity: Webforums Administrator
- Other positions
Campaign Advocate
Campaign Advocates play an integral role in the development, promotion and delivery of People & Planet’s award winning campaigns. Focussing on a particular issue, Campaign Advocates will:
- Deliver campaign training, workshops and issue specific talks.
- Work with the support office as a reference group for the development and delivery of campaigns.
- Be well briefed on P&P campaign policy and in turn act as a peer communicator and media spokesperson.
- Take part in lobbying meetings on behalf of People & Planet.
If you’re interested in this role, download the role description and return a completed application form to us.
If you’d like more information about being a campaign advocate then contact Emily.
Media and Communications volunteer
Media and Comms volunteers work to communicate their group’s campaigning activities to a wide range of audiences. They will also be regular contributors to P&P’s website and termly newsletter, The Activist.
If you’re interested in this role, download the role description and send us a completed application form.
Contact Juliette for more information about this role.
“The war we’re fighting is an information war, and we have to use all the weapons at our disposal” (George Monbiot).
Blog for People & Planet!
It’s time to bring P&P into the Web 2.0 age, by making use of all the exciting creative communications tools that are out there, in particular blogs and the media of films…
We’ve got a People & Planet blog all set up and ready to launch… but to make it a success, we need you to make it happen.
Would you like to become a (relatively) regular P&P blogger? The blog will provide a space for covering pretty much any topic that sparks your interest, and can be as opinionated, controversial, radical, informal as you like.
If you’d like to become a P&P blogger then email Juliette.
Group Support Volunteer
Over half of all of People & Planet’s campaign groups are based in schools and colleges. Now is your chance to use the skills you have learnt to help make their campaigning even better! Help set up and support a new Sixth Form People & Planet group in your area or support a struggling one. This is a great opportunity to bring P&P groups together and get experiance working with young people.
We are currently looking for interested potential Group Support Volunteers in London, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Reading. Please download the role description for more details.
If you’re interested in being a Group Support Volunteer please email Jamie
Regional Representative
Regional Reps are crucial to supported and growing the P&P network of university and college groups. The role includes:
- Helping to support People & Planet university groups in your region through advice and training;
- Facilitating the formation of new People & Planet groups.
- Organising a regional training day for the university groups in your region. You could also help groups to communicate with each other, coordinate campaign actions and transport to national events such as Shared Planet;
- Communicating the views and needs of university groups in your region to the staff in the support office;
- Helping to promote People & Planet’s campaigns and events to university groups in your region.
If you’d like to be a Regional Rep, then email us to find out if we have a vacancy in your region. To apply, download the full role description and return a completed application form.
Redress Fashion Campaign Co-ordinators
Play a key role in coordinating a campaign for a just and sustainable global garment industry on our high streets and on our campuses. This year the campaign is coordinated by a working group of student volunteers, we are looking for:
- Press & Public Affairs Volunteer to grab the attention of the media and our campaign targets.
- Convener to help the group work effectively together and keep focus on the campaign plan.
- Events & Campaign Actions Volunteer to co-ordinate eye-catching and creative campaign actions.
The working group meets regularly by telephone and is supported by the People & Planet office.
If you’re interested in playing a key role in the Redress Fashion campaign this year please email Jim
Campaigns Research Volunteers
People & Planet is looking for a number of volunteers to put their research skills into use to help develop our Go Green and Redress Fashion campaigns. Are you a dab hand at internet research, interested in environmental management or in finding out which universities are purchasing goods made with sweatshop labour?
If you’re interested in being a research volunteer please email Emily.
Other positions
Past voluntary positions include Regional Representatives, Go Green research volunteer and Data entry volunteer. These positions may be re-advertised and new positions will arise so please keep checking back!