Volunteer Wordpress-based Website in 2021 - Can You help | The Wisdom Trust

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We’re looking for a few enthusiastic people to help us evolve a new website so we can launch exciting new projects in 2021. We are a fully registered charity, run entirely by volunteers, with an incredible campaign ready to go.

What will you be doing?

The Wisdom Trust is a fully registered charity run entirely by volunteers. We outgrew our old website some years ago (

We’ve built the site (

This is our mission statement -

’The Wisdom Trust delivers a wider awareness about the important issues affecting the future of our planet and about many other areas of interest as well; We make donations from our funds to support the work of other charitable organisations in communities all over the world and work with others to create better friendship, goodwill and understanding across all borders.’

Briefly, our website is a part membership site where people get involved (completely free of charge) in lots of learning programs - both participating, contributing and editing (sharing Wisdom) and we raise funds through advertising and affiliate marketing. Then we donate funds every three months via an online vote of our members with every charity getting a share based on how many votes they get. Non-members can also get involved too, in a limited way.

The old website was written in PHP/HTML/MySQL and worked quite well but it’s not responsive and won’t, as it is now, stand up to any kind of revamp to make it more user friendly or to add some new features we’ve been planning.

We ran some great events at venues like The House of Lords and hope to do so again. We have some great projects to get involved in both in the UK and overseas and plan to establish a brilliant new program called The League of Wisdom, but we can’t do anything really until the website is updated and secure - and responsive.

We’re looking for a few people who share our vision to help make a difference in communities globally and who can help us get back where we belong - online!! Although the coding on the existing website is uncommented, the website is fully specified online, with detailed page descriptions for every area within it and a library of relevant images too. We have partnerships set up with all sorts of affiliate portals and are open to other ideas to raise funds through the website too.

Please contact us if you think you can help. Thanks

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for anyone with any relevant skills who can help us plan and build a new website. That could include website developers - both front end and back end, but also people with experience in database management, marketing, (especially social media), strategy planning, fundraising, education (as we’re all about wisdom and learning), copywriting, SEO, grant applications - for example. Basically, we’d love to hear from anyone who has some time and energy and the enthusiasm to help us take our web presence to the next level and facilitate our providing charities with an additional revenue stream.

The old website was written in PHP/HTML/MySQL and we currently have a migration project under way to repurpose the legacy content. The site is now built on Wordpress based on many of the features and functionality in our old website. So anyone with a high level of Wordpress experience would be very welcome although not essential. We are currently using the page builder Elementor Pro within WordPress so experience or an understanding of this platform would be useful but again is not essential.

You would be working remotely, in you own time, but we do plan to meet up digitally every now and then for round-table discussions and to review progress. The site is currently live but not officially launched. We will also consider a soft launch on social media to start building our user base. Ideally, we would aim to launch before April 1st.

What difference will you make?

With a brilliant website we will be helping people become more aware about the big global challenges facing the future of our planet - especially the key areas like poverty, environment and health, but also about many other subjects too. We’ll also be aiming to use learning and wisdom to help create better friendship, goodwill and understanding across all borders.

We’ll help people learn about hundreds, even thousands of small changes they can make in their own lives to reduce their personal carbon footprints at home or in the office and to live more healthy lifestyles. When the old website was active, we attracted over 7,000 members who signed up but we know that a brilliant website could do much better.

Through our donations programmes we will be helping to support many organisations in communities all over the world including causes which help to relieve poverty, protect the environment and improve healthcare. We will also be supporting schools and local charities of any kind such as youth groups, hospitals, groups for the elderly, cultural and heritage projects, food banks, hospices (for example) and many others.

We’ll also promote the campaigns and activities of all the charities who are registered with us. Currently over 600 charities and good causes are registered with us and we have made donations already to support several dozen of them. But we know we can so much more.

What’s in it for the volunteer?

This will be a fantastic challenge for anyone who has the skills and experience to help us in any way. They’ll be able to join a team that can help build an incredible website that will make a real difference in communities all over the world, help people to smile again and build better friendship, goodwill and understanding across all borders. Whilst this opportunity covers only the revamping/redesign of our website, we’re more than happy to build a longer-term relationship with anyone who has any relevant skills, to explore all sorts of other interesting avenues we can explore together to extend the digital reach of The Wisdom Trust and do more amazing things together.

Before you apply

Candidates can apply via the Reach Volunteering platform and communication can continue by phone or email thereafter.

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The Wisdom Trust delivers a wider awareness about the important issues affecting the future of our planet and about many other areas of interest as well; We make donations from our funds to...