
In order to deliver such a high level of support work, SATEDA is reliant on the good will and hard work of our amazing volunteers. Whether you’d like to gain experience for a new career path, you want to โgive backโ some of your time to the community or you just want to get out of the house a little more, we’d like to hear from you.
Our volunteers help in all the services we provide, so there’s something for everyone โ have a look below.

๐ Project Hope Letter Writer
Put pen and empathy to paper through letters for women in prison, many of whom are survivors of domestic abuse. All you need is good literacy and a compassionate and non-judgemental heart. You can do this from anywhere in the world!
Commitment: a minimum of 5 letters a month
๐ฉ๐ฝโโ๏ธ Support 2 Court
Help women with practical and emotional support as they go through the courts in Kent. You need good communication skills, and accurate writing for statements and forms.
Time commitment: depends on client need and you will receive clinical supervision every 6 weeks.
๐ Event Organiser
Help us plan and execute events throughout the year to raise awareness about domestic abuse and raise funds for SATEDA. You need to be reliable, have good communication and good organisational skills.
Time commitment: varies – we have more events in the summer.
๐ค Programme Co-Facilitator
Assist our programme facilitators to deliver life changing group sessions for women: Freedom Programme, Own My Life, Power 2 Change. You need to be reliable, have good communication skills, a compassionate and non-judgemental heart.
Time commitment: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks plus clinical supervision every 6 weeks
โ๐ป Content Creator
We need support creating content to raise awareness about the gendered-nature of domestic abuse and about our services in the community. Are you a good researcher with basic Canva skills and/or engaging copy-writing? Then please send examples of your written blogs, social media posts or comms designs before registering to juliette.lyons@sateda.org ๐
Time commitment: 3 hours a week
This vacancy is currently filled.
๐ง Counsellor
Are you a fourth-year counselling student or qualified counsellor? Help women make sense of their experience of domestic abuse.
Time commitment: 2 hours per week counselling (until 100 hours needed to complete course met). Plus 1.5 hours every 4 weeks for group clinical supervision.
๐ง๐ฟ Young Persons Support Worker
Assist our young persons (YP) support team to deliver our programmes for YP: Healing Together, You Matter, Choose Liberty, Switch Up. You need good communication skills and a compassionate heart.
Time commitment: Dependent on the client and the programme delivered
๐ป Administrative Assistant
Assist our Support and Project teams with your good communication, organisation and office skills in this Sittingbourne-based role.
Time commitment: 3 hours a week
๐ฃ๏ธ Champion
It’s in the name – champion our mission and vision out and about in the community so more women, families, friends and potential partners and volunteers know we exist. We need good communicators who care about what we do to sing it from the rooftops!
Time commitment: a few hours per month, as required
๐ Telephone Support Worker
We need caring and tactful listeners to run risk assessments and advise our clients on the phone. We need you to have basic computer skills but most importantly we need your empathy and interpersonal skills.
Time commitment: dependent upon client need, plus clinical supervision every 6 weeks
๐ญ Social Media (Violence Into Art)
Support our Campaigns and Communications team by interviewing and highlighting feminist artists. If you have an interest in the arts, basic Canva skills, good copy writing and can commit to make one social media post a week, get in touch!
Time commitment: 3 hours a week, remotely
๐ฐ Social Media (DA News Roundup)
Want to scroll through Twitter in a more meaningful way? Assist our Campaigns and Communications team to create roundups of domestic abuse related news every week. We need your interest in the news, interest in women’s rights, basic Canva skills, and good copy writing.
This vacancy is currently filled.
Time commitment: 3 hours, remotely
๐ฅป Client Clothing Assistant (Sharewear)
Represent SATEDA and Sharewear for our service users by welcoming and assisting them as they choose clothes. Ensure stock levels are maintained and select clothes for children and their parents/guardian to choose from as we don’t have these visible on the rails.
Time commitment: 1-6 hours per week.
๐ Donation Processor (Sharewear)
Greet donors, weigh and quality check their donations. Sort clothes into size and distribute the checked clothing to the stock areas. Manage stock storage and rotation, pack orders ready for delivery to our Access Centre or Outreach Partners. Help maintain our sorting and clothing areas clean and tidy.
Time commitment: 1-10 hours per week
Found something for you?
Register below and one of our wonderful volunteer coordinators (Tracy or Valerie) will be in touch with a few forms to complete. They’ll then get you all trained up so you’re ready to get started.
We can only do this work if we’re in it together โ and we can’t wait to meet you!
By volunteering at SATEDA, you’ll:
- Gain experience and transferable skills
- Receive a variety of training
- Enhance your CV
- Meet new people
- Build on your confidence and self-esteem
- Develop a sense of purpose and play a part in dismantling systemic gender inequality
If you can’t donate your time, can you donate stationary?
Through Project Hope, we regularly send letters: symbols of love, connection and sisterhood, to women in English prisons. Why? Because we know 2 out of 3 women behind bars are survivors of domestic abuse, and some women receive very little or no post at all from the outside world.
We don’t want them to feel forgotten so we let them know theyโre not alone, that their story is worth listening to and that people are thinking about them, on the other side of the walls they find themselves in.
If you can donate nice cards, paper, envelopes and stamps, please contact valerie.williams@sateda.org.
Thank you for helping us let them know they matter, one letter at a time.
Why volunteer?

"During my time volunteering with SATEDA I have learnt so much and have encountered so many wonderful people. It has been a great honour to volunteer here and I will endlessly be inspired by it!"
Nataliia
Social Media Volunteer

"When I went through it myself, I didnโt have help, and it was difficult. Now I use my own experience to help others going through the same thing by going to court with them, talking with them and keeping them company when cases get delayed."
Anonymous
Support 2 Court Volunteer

"It's amazing to be part of this wonderful community."
Bunmi
Project Hope Coordinator Volunteer

โI volunteer to help others to make sense of what they are feeling after domestic abuse and to reassure them that there is hope at the end of the tunnel.โ
Mary
Volunteer
Employability Programme
All volunteers provide a vital service within charities, but our volunteers are different. Most of them have experienced domestic abuse, and they want to use their traumatic experiences to help others. The involvement of volunteers, with lived experience of domestic abuse, in all areas of service is delivery is what we believe sets SATEDA apart from other organisations.
Our volunteers will never forget what has happened to them, and we donโt ask them to. In fact some are still experiencing harassment from ex-partners, however they still choose to come along and help others. This in turn helps them to remember that they are valued, and worthy, their experiences were not their fault and they will not let their abusers hold them back any longer.
This is why our Employability Programme is so important. Just because someone has accessed a support worker, counselling, Freedom Programme, Power 2 Change, Own My Lifeย or Support 2 Court, it doesn’t mean that they will never need support again. Working as a volunteer, and being supported by our wonderful volunteer coordinators offers them an ongoing part of their healing journey โ a journey we take with them.