Using images when posting Volunteer Opportunities

A picture paints a thousand words… 

Choosing the right pictures to advertise the roles in your organisation is important. It is equally important to check that the sizing of the image looks good, as part of that key first impression that the volunteer gets when browsing your opportunities. 

Check that the image you choose appears correctly when potential volunteers are browsing for volunteer roles, as well as in the full description of the opportunity that appears when a volunteer clicks on the role. 

Click on this link to the article ‘How do I choose a good cover photo / image for an activity?’ provided by Deedmob, the host of the Volunteer Bucks platform, which explains how to choose and, importantly, how to size your image so that it appears correctly in all places that it appears on Volunteer Bucks. 

Handy tip: when creating a new opportunity, always check the “Preview” box to make sure that the image appears as you’d want to – this shows the view that will appear when volunteers browse available roles. 

If you want to check on your existing opportunities, select the one you want to look at, then choose “Edit”. This will take you to the page where you can both see the details of the volunteering opportunity and the preview of the image, as it appears when the volunteer is browsing roles.  

If after reading the online guidance, you still need help in resizing your chosen image, please email [email protected] and attach the image you would like to use, in .jpg or .png format, and we can re-size the image for you.