Volunteer with the Children of Heroes Charity Fund
Make your contribution to Ukraine's future

Join the Children of Heroes volunteer community and put your skills, experience and motivation behind children who have lost a parent to the war. Fill in the application form, complete a short verification process and choose the format of involvement that fits you best.
Your time, your professional skills, your attentiveness, your reliability and your readiness to be there — that is what the children we support need. Children of Heroes Charity Fund provides long-term support over 17,000 children who have lost one or both parents to the war in Ukraine. As of 1 July 2026, the value of assistance delivered had reached almost $22 million (USD)
On average, 13–15 new children join the Fund every day. We work with families over the long term: education, psychological support and socialisation, humanitarian needs, medical care and case management. Our volunteers make that support broader, warmer and closer to the children and their families.
Fill in the volunteer application form
and we will match you with a format of involvement that fits your experience, your capacity and the Fund's values.
Fill in the volunteer form

Why volunteers matter to the Fund

Behind every programme there is a great deal of day-to-day work: collecting and delivering humanitarian aid, running events for children, preparing information materials, translating presentations for partners, supporting a fundraiser, taking photographs and filming, finding useful contacts, strengthening the team with professional expertise.

Volunteering with the Fund is a way to join a large shared undertaking and a group of people who are committed to the mission and would rather shape the future than wait for it. You can help children see that there is an adult nearby who cares.

How can you help?

The Fund runs several volunteering formats. Some of them involve being there in person; others can be done remotely and combined with work, study or other commitments.

You can join any of these areas:

Warehouse support

Packing humanitarian aid, gifts and kits for children and families.

Helping to coordinate participants, hand out information materials and manage organisational tasks during the Fund's events.

Setting up peer-to-peer fundraisers, promoting the Fund's campaigns and bringing friends, colleagues, bloggers or communities into supporting children.

Writing, editing, design and preparing materials for social media, newsletters, presentations or information campaigns.

Helping to produce photo and video materials, visual content, digital tools or platforms for the Fund.

Translating texts, supporting communication with international partners and preparing materials in English or other languages.

Finding contacts, building databases, gathering information on events, media, partnership opportunities and useful practice in the charitable sector.

Helping with transport, accompanying deliveries or handling organisational tasks, if that is something you are able to do.

If you do not see your area on the list

but have a skill that could be useful to the Fund, tell us about it in the form.

Fill in the volunteer form

Who can become a volunteer?

We are open to people with all kinds of backgrounds: students, specialists, entrepreneurs, creatives, translators, drivers, photographers, analysts, event organisers, communications professionals — and anyone ready to help responsibly.

What matters to us is that a volunteer:

  • shares the Fund's values;
  • understands how sensitive it is to work with children who have experienced loss;
  • keeps information confidential;
  • takes agreements seriously;
  • is ready to complete a short interview and induction;
  • respects the rules on safety, ethics and child protection.

Extensive volunteering experience is not required. Honest motivation, reliability and a readiness to work within the Fund's rules matter more.

Why is the form so detailed?

We work with children and families who have been through the loss of a parent. Child safety, confidentiality and ethical conduct are therefore non-negotiable conditions of that work.
The form helps us to:
  • understand your experience, skills and motivation more clearly;
  • match you with a volunteering format that is useful for the Fund and comfortable for you;
  • make sure everyone in the community understands the rules of working with children;
  • protect the children, the families, the volunteers and the Fund's team;
  • build a working relationship on trust, responsibility and shared values.
Before we start working together, we ask volunteers to read the Fund's Code of Conduct and Ethics, its Child Protection Policy, its Policy on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and its confidentiality rules.
This is part of our responsibility towards children.

What happens after you submit the form?

1
You fill in the form
You tell us about yourself, your experience, motivation, skills and the format of help you would prefer. We will come back to you with an answer within a month of receiving the form.
2
The Fund's team reviews your application
We look at which area of volunteering best matches what you can offer and what the Fund currently needs.
3
A short interview with a coordinator
After the initial selection we may invite you to a short online conversation, so we can get to know you better and answer your questions.
4
Introduction to the Fund's policies
Before starting, every volunteer completes a short induction and confirms they are ready to follow the rules on ethics, confidentiality and child protection.
5
Paperwork
Once the format of involvement is agreed, the Fund signs a volunteering agreement with you. It sets out the area of work, the rights and obligations of both sides, the rules on safety and confidentiality, and the terms of cooperation.
6
Joining the volunteer community
Once everything is confirmed, we will share the opportunities that are currently open and add you to the Fund's private volunteer community.

FAQ

Yes. Some tasks do not require you to be there in person. You can help with copy, translation, design, research, fundraising, analysis or communications.

Not for every area. Where the format involves contact with children or families, the Fund assesses each volunteer's readiness separately, provides a briefing and defines the limits of their involvement.

Yes. In the form you can tell us how much time you are able to give. We value regular help and one-off involvement in specific tasks alike.

No. Volunteering is voluntary and unpaid. What we do provide is clear communication, support from a coordinator and safe conditions for taking part.

Yes. If you would like to organise corporate volunteering, a peer-to-peer fundraiser or a team initiative for children, mention it in the form or get in touch with the Fund's team.

For the children the Fund supports, every volunteer is one more person ready to offer help, to give their time, their warmth and their belief in the future. We believe that together we can build an environment around them where there is care, support and room for a real childhood.

Become a volunteer

For the children the Fund supports, every volunteer is one more person ready to offer help, to give their time, their warmth and their belief in the future. We believe that together we can build an environment around them where there is care, support and room for a real childhood.

Become a volunteer