Join the ranks: use your skills for social impact
Join the Scottish Tech Army and use your skills to solve real-world crises and support the third sector.
Be part of a unique volunteering community
Our community of volunteers spans the UK and further afield and covers a wide variety of tech sector skills and disciplines.
Our volunteers often tell us that they really value the opportunity to use their skills to support people and organisations that are providing invaluable support to people across a wide range of areas of need.
>5,000
volunteers in our network, a unique and engaged community
77%
report volunteering improved their mental health & wellbeing
90%
of volunteers feel like their volunteering helped make a difference
What we need
We’re seeking experienced tech professionals ready to make a difference. Our volunteers typically have backgrounds in: software development, data analysis, business analysis and consultancy, cloud & DevOps, product & project management, UX/UI and service design.
This isn’t an exhaustive list - if you have other skills that can support our projects we’d love to hear from you!
Support causes that matter to you
Mental Health & Wellbeing - Build tools that support people in crisis, improve service access and reduce isolation.
Education & Skills - Design digital platforms that open learning pathways and close the digital divide.
Poverty & Community Support - Help charities streamline services, improve data systems, and reach more people in need
Disability & Inclusion - Enhance accessibility and independence for disabled communities.
Environment & Sustainability - Support green initiatives with data, automation, and impactful tech solutions.
Advocacy & Human Rights - Empower underrepresented voices through better and more accessible digital infrastructure.
What’s expected of you
Experience: Most roles require 3+ years’ experience in your field. You don’t need to be an expert, just confident in your skills and ready to collaborate.
Time: Volunteering typically takes 2–6 hours a week over 4–12 weeks. You won’t be locked into anything—we’ll match you with a project that suits your skills and the time you can commit and if it’s a good fit, you’ll join the project.
See the project through to completion. You’ll choose whether to join a project, and once you’re in, we ask that you stick with it until the end. Most projects run for 4–12 weeks with a flexible 2–6 hour weekly commitment.
Meet our volunteers
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Felicity Lois Nwanze
Product Designer
“At the start of this project, I felt a deep sense of purpose. The opportunity to use design to support people affected by cancer is both humbling and inspiring.”
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Linda Harris
UX/UI Designer & Researcher
“The STA community is very supportive - I’m always learning, sharing ideas, and collaborating with fantastic teams and clients who genuinely value my contribution.”
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Chris Cranie
“Some options for how I could contribute were presented pretty quickly, and I'm now delighted to be doing a piece of work for a great charity in the UK.”
Frequently asked questions
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We do provide support to you as a volunteer but we need people that have enough experience to be able to work fairly independently.
We make sure that your skills are a good fit for the projects you undertake and if a project needs a team we’ll assemble that team, who will then work together to deliver it.
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Once you register, you’ll be invited to an orientation session with our team to explain how things work and make sure you know how to go about finding a project that you’d like to work on.
We encourage you to join our Slack community where you can keep up to date with project opportunities and interact with other volunteers in the community.
You can step forward for any project that interests you and in some cases we’ll get in touch to highlight a project that we think would be a good fit.
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This happens sometimes – the nature of volunteering is that, sometimes, other commitments will take priority. In this situation, we just ask that you let us know so that we can make sure we have handover material to pass to another volunteer to pick up the project.