Volunteer WordPress Web Developer for Youth Charity

Change The Youth NW; Manchester; On-site; Full time

Job description

Help transform a growing youth charity’s online presence. We have WordPress hosting and a basic site ready—we need a volunteer web developer to create an engaging website that showcases our services, attracts funding, and helps us reach more young people.

A professional website will transform our charity.

As a small but ambitious organisation, we’re currently missing opportunities to secure grants, corporate partnerships and donations because we don’t yet have a website that properly reflects who we are and the impact we make.

Your work will create the first impression for funders, supporters, volunteers, referral agencies and families seeking support. It will provide a trusted platform to showcase our programmes, share success stories, promote events and make it easier for people to get involved.

Most importantly, your contribution will directly help us secure more funding. Every successful grant application, corporate partnership or donation made possible by the website will help us deliver more mentoring, wellbeing programmes, therapeutic adventures and life‑changing opportunities for children and young people across Greater Manchester and the North West.

This isn’t just about building a website—it’s about helping a growing charity reach more young people, expand our services and create lasting impact in communities that need it most.

Your skills could help change thousands of lives over the coming years.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about using their skills to make a real difference.

Ideally, you’ll have experience developing WordPress websites and be confident creating modern, responsive, user-friendly websites. Experience with page builders such as Elementor, SEO best practices, accessibility and website optimisation would be highly valued.

You don’t need to be a professional agency or senior developer—we welcome experienced professionals, freelancers, students, or anyone with the right skills and enthusiasm to support a meaningful cause.

Key qualifications & skills

• Experienced using WordPress
• Creative with a good eye for design and user experience
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating with our team
• Able to communicate ideas and provide recommendations
• Passionate about supporting charities and making a positive impact
• Reliable and able to commit to completing the project

We’ll provide the hosting, existing WordPress installation, branding, content, images and ongoing support throughout the project. We value your expertise and are open to your ideas on how to create the best possible website for our charity.

Remote

Responsibilities

Change the Youth NW is a growing youth charity supporting children, young people and families through mentoring, therapeutic adventures, wellbeing programmes, life skills and inclusive activities.

We already have our WordPress hosting and a basic website in place, but we’re looking for a passionate volunteer Website Developer to help bring it to life.

This is an exciting opportunity to have real creative input and build a website that will become the digital face of our charity.

• Design and develop our existing WordPress website.
• Create an engaging, accessible and mobile-friendly user experience.
• Build pages that clearly showcase our programmes, services and impact.
• Integrate donation, fundraising and contact forms where required.
• Improve site navigation and user journeys.
• Optimise the website for SEO and performance.
• Ensure the site follows accessibility and best practice standards.
• Provide guidance on future improvements and ongoing website management.

We have branding, content, images and ideas ready to support the project, so you’ll never be starting from scratch.

Whether you’re an experienced web developer wanting to give back, or someone looking to use and grow your skills for a meaningful cause, we’d love to hear from you.