Work with us
Support survivors, Secure Justice
Use your skills where they matter most
As a grassroots community project, The Survivors relies on skilled people like you to step forward and lend a hand.
If you have experience you'd like to offer, there are many ways to help. Some roles work directly with survivors; others strengthen the systems behind the scenes. All are absolutely vital to our mission of supporting survivors and raising understanding and awareness of how they were failed, so we can make sure it never happens again.
These are the roles we are currently seeking volunteers for. If you don't see your skills on this list but feel that you have something useful to offer, please get in touch. We're always keen to hear new perspectives and ideas.
🌿 Therapy & Wellness
Trauma-informed care and gentle, restorative practices
We work with therapists, counsellors, art and music therapists, yoga teachers, and other wellbeing practitioners to create calm, supportive environments. This is not clinical treatment or diagnosis—it's about safety, steadiness, and helping people reconnect with themselves at their own pace.
Survivors often carry trauma in their bodies as much as their minds. The practitioners we work with understand this. They create spaces where people can breathe, move, express, and simply be without pressure or expectation. Whether through talk, creativity, movement, or stillness, the focus is always on what feels right for each person.
What's involved: Facilitating individual or group sessions, supporting wellbeing activities, or advising our teams on trauma-informed approaches. We're looking for practitioners who can hold space with compassion and without agenda.
🌿 Community Organisers
Help bring local groups to life
Our model depends on small, trusted, local spaces. Organisers coordinate venues, schedules, volunteers, and communication so groups can run smoothly and safely.
Local matters. Survivors need spaces they can reach, where faces become familiar and trust can grow over time. Community organisers are the steady presence that makes this possible—handling the practical details so that groups can focus on the people in the room. You'll work closely with local volunteers, secure suitable venues, manage schedules, and ensure everyone knows what's happening and when.
What's involved: Practical coordination, logistics, and creating reliable routines. This role requires organisation, discretion, and a calm approach to problem-solving rather than public leadership.
🌿 Researchers
Careful, evidence-based investigation
Researchers gather and review publicly available information, reports, and records related to grooming gangs and institutional responses. The aim is accuracy and clarity, not speculation or campaigning.
Understanding what happened—and what continues to happen—requires patience and rigour. We need people who can sift through reports, inquiries, court records, and media coverage to build a clear picture grounded in evidence. This work informs our advocacy and helps survivors understand the broader context of their experiences. It's meticulous, sometimes difficult work that must be handled with care and emotional resilience.
What's involved: Desk-based research, fact-checking, compiling findings, and maintaining detailed records. You'll need strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle challenging material responsibly.
🌿 Archivists
Allow the public to access our data quickly and easily
We collect testimonies, documents, and research that needs to be organised carefully so they can be preserved and understood over time. Archivists help design clear, ethical systems to make the information accessible.
Every piece of testimony we collect matters. Every document represents someone's truth, someone's experience, someone's courage in coming forward. Archivists ensure these materials are treated with the respect they deserve—structured clearly, stored securely, and made accessible to those who need them while protecting the privacy and dignity of survivors. This is about creating systems that will last and serve future understanding.
What's involved: Designing cataloguing systems, tagging and organising digital materials, maintaining secure storage protocols, and ensuring long-term accessibility. Experience with archival standards, metadata, or information management is valuable.
🌿 Editors
Present stories with care and integrity
Editors help prepare survivor testimony for publication while keeping each person's voice intact. The goal is clarity and accessibility, not rewriting or shaping narratives.
When survivors choose to share their stories publicly, we owe them precision and respect. Editors work to make testimony clear and readable while preserving the speaker's authentic voice, phrasing, and intent. This might mean light copyediting for clarity, structuring spoken testimony into written form, or ensuring anonymity is maintained where requested. Every edit is made in collaboration with the survivor—nothing is published without their explicit consent.
What's involved: Sensitive editing, formatting for publication, collaborating with survivors on their own stories, and maintaining detailed consent records. You'll need excellent written communication skills and a deep respect for personal narrative.
🌿 Videographers
Record testimony when survivors choose video
Some survivors prefer to share their experiences on camera. Videographers create simple, respectful recordings in a way that feels safe and unintrusive.
Video testimony can be powerful, but it requires particular sensitivity.
Survivors who choose this format are often at their most vulnerable, and the filming environment must feel calm, private, and completely under their control. Videographers work quietly and unobtrusively, following the survivor's lead on pacing, breaks, and what gets recorded. Technical skill matters, but the ability to create a safe, respectful space matters more.
What's involved: Filming testimony in quiet, private settings, basic editing for clarity, and handling all recordings with strict confidentiality. You'll need video production skills and a trauma-aware, unobtrusive approach.
🌿 Legal Advisers
Guide us through the legal landscape
Lawyers help us understand the legal implications of gathering, storing, and sharing testimony, and advise on safeguarding, liability, and survivors' rights.
The work we do sits at the intersection of personal trauma, public interest, and complex legal considerations. We need legal minds who can help us navigate data protection, defamation risk, safeguarding obligations, and the rights of survivors who come forward.
This isn't about casework or representation—it's about ensuring our policies, processes, and publications are legally sound and protective of everyone involved.
What's involved: Occasional consultation on policy, reviewing materials for legal risk, advising on compliance with relevant legislation, and helping us understand survivors' legal rights and protections. Pro bono or reduced-rate arrangements are welcome.
🌿 Communications
Help people find us
Communications professionals explain our work clearly and responsibly through writing, design, media, and digital channels. Accuracy and sensitivity matter more than making a noise.
We need to be found by the people who need us—survivors, allies, and those who want to help—but we also need to communicate in a way that's measured, truthful, and respectful. Communications volunteers help craft messaging that's accessible without being reductive, urgent without being sensationalist. You might write website copy, manage social media, design materials, handle press inquiries, or shape how we present our work to funders and partners.
What's involved: Writing and editing content, managing digital presence, developing messaging frameworks, liaising with media, and ensuring all communications align with our values. Experience in nonprofit, advocacy, or sensitive communications is valuable.
🌿 Fundraising & Support
Keep the work sustainable
Fundraisers help us secure grants, donations, and long-term financial support so that survivor services can grow carefully and remain independent.
Good work requires resources, and resources require strategy. We need fundraisers who can identify funding opportunities, write compelling grant applications, build relationships with foundations and donors, and help us plan for sustainable growth. This isn't about chasing every pound—it's about finding the right partnerships that align with our values and allow us to expand thoughtfully without compromising our integrity or independence.
What's involved: Researching funding opportunities, writing grant applications, cultivating donor relationships, developing fundraising strategy, and ensuring financial sustainability. Experience in charity fundraising, grant writing, or major donor engagement is valuable.
🌿 Something else?
If your skills don't fit neatly into a category, tell us anyway
Every organisation needs people who can solve problems, build systems, and strengthen the foundations. If you have relevant experience, we'd like to hear from you.
Perhaps you're a data analyst who could help us understand patterns in testimony. Maybe you're a project manager who knows how to keep complex work on track. You might be a web developer, a graphic designer, a translator, a safeguarding specialist, or someone with experience we haven't thought to name. The work we do touches many disciplines, and we're always open to hearing how your skills might contribute.
What's involved: That depends entirely on what you bring. Tell us about your background and we'll explore whether there's a meaningful role for you.