Creative Internship with Social Enterprise

Job description

About the role

11 million people in the UK are given paid time off to volunteer by their employer, but few ever donate it to charity. As part of Benefacto’s mission to get these people volunteering, we seek an intern to devise an evocative campaign across print and digital media to increase awareness of food poverty, homelessness, youth unemployment and isolation amongst the elderly in London amongst professionals in the City.

For the successful applicant, this is an opportunity to devise, plan and execute a stand-alone creative project with outputs across a variety of media. The work will be shared across numerous platforms and within a number of significant companies in London, meaning the work will be showcased in high-profile places.

You will have considerable artistic oversight and a small budget to manage.



About Benefacto

Benefacto is an innovative volunteering brokerage where professionals can book exciting volunteering opportunities online. Think lastminute.com, but for booking volunteering.

We support thirty small charities and the Social Enterprise (a registered CIC) is funded by revenue from the seven corporate clients – including Accenture, CNN and the Citigroup –from which the volunteers are enlisted.


The Application:

The internship is an unpaid position. However, we will fund work-related expenses including providing a budget for the production of the campaign.

The internship will provide an opportunity for you to build your CV and profile within corporates and charities in London. During this time you will receive supportive oversight from our Head of Scale Up and, on successful completion, a professional reference.

You will work alongside the Benefacto team at their Bank offices at Bathtub to Boardroom – an exciting entrepreneur space where you will have the chance to rub shoulders with lots of other start-ups.



To apply please send an example of your best photography or graphic design work accompanied by a cover letter and CV by Monday 23rd March.

Desired profile

The Applicant:

We require you to be in your penultimate or final year of studies in film, photography or graphic design. You will need to meet the following criteria:

Be an accomplished photographer with experience of working with people
Have some graphic design and video production experience
Be confident in delivering results when executing their own ideas and working to an ambiguous brief
Reflect our values as a young, dynamic, community minded organisation
Possess strong organisational skills
You will need to be available to work in London at our Bank offices for 3 – 5 weeks. The start-date of the internship can be discussed and will be very much dependent on your circumstances, assuming you are the right applicant!