We are a registered charity that co-ordinate the Volunteer Centre for Kirklees. We support a network of over 2,000 charities, community groups and social enterprises offering free training, support and advice. Every year we help match over 3,000 local residents to volunteer roles. We believe in the power of community action and volunteering.

We are looking to recruit a small team of Community Reporter volunteers to help us write and then share positive news stories from our network of charities, community groups and social enterprises.

In this role you will be:

• Getting in touch with a charity or group and arranging to visit them or speak to them over the phone
• Collecting and recording their good news story and photos
• Writing up their story into a compelling and uplifting article that we can use on our website, social media and in press releases.
• Ensuring you have appropriate consents (using our photo and story consent forms) for those involved.

You will need to have good communication skills and excellent written English.

Ideally you will have an interest or skill in journalism or marketing and be interesting in gaining experience in a charity setting.

We will provide you with support and guidance and you will need to undertake some basic e-learning before you can start the role.

We can offer you reimbursement of your travel expenses.

The role is flexible, ideally you will be able to commit to completing one good news story per month.

Our office is in Huddersfield, but we want to collect good news stories from across Kirklees so we will assign you tasks that are in your local area.

• Application form required
• References required
• DBS (criminal record check that the organisation will organise)

• 18+
• 16 - 18 year olds

Good level of written English