60 years

of empowering young people through life-changing international volunteering placements.

Volunteering
Opportunities

Aged 17-25?

Take a meaningful year out with Project Trust – a leading charity offering fully supported international volunteering opportunities.

Since 1967, more than 8,000 volunteers have explored their potential, experienced new cultures and made a lasting impact in communities worldwide.

With expert guidance and continuous support throughout your journey, you’ll return home with greater confidence, independence and global awareness and memories to last a lifetime.

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Where can you go?

What can you do?

Teaching

TESOL

Youth Work

Social Care

How much does it cost?

Depending on your placement type, our fundraising target is £5,500–£7,500 for a fully supported international experience.
We’re proud to offer one of the most competitively priced year-out experiences of its kind in the UK, with your fundraising helping make your placement possible while developing skills that will stay with you long after you return home.

Find out more about placement types →

We’ll help you get there..

You don’t have to figure it out alone.
From personalised 1:1 fundraising support to financial assistance through our Access Fund Bursary, we’re committed to making a Project Trust experience accessible to as many young people as possible.
Because your finances shouldn’t decide your future.

Explore your funding and support options →

“I watched my son develop resilience, self- leadership and agency through Project Trust, saw him thrive at university as a consequence and have watched him enter the world of work with those traits growing and maturing. “

Professor Sue Rigby

Vice Chancellor of Napier University

“My boss had done something similar to Project Trust so knew the kind of person you have to be to complete one. Even just having it on my CV helped get my foot in the door.”

Jamie

Thailand Volunteer 2024/25

How it works

Our dedicated team will guide you through the process and support you every step of the way…

Selection

Fundraising

Training

Placement

Debriefing

Community

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   Libby Alston 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I volunteered for 8 months from January-August 2025 in Blantyre, Malawi. It was so so incredible, I haven’t stopped talking about it since I got home. I met so many people including fellow volunteers and made many friends from the community I was volunteering in. Project Trust put in so much hard work and do an incredibly good job at pairing you with other people and finding the perfect place for you to spend your time. It gives you so many opportunities and I cannot recommend it enough!!
  
 
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   Maja Silva 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Project Trust opened me up to sustainable travel and living abroad. Unfortunately my placement got closed down part way through and I got relocated to a different country. However this turned out to be truly rewarding and I got to experience 2 different cultures and livelihoods in 1! I have now travelled to over 30 countries abd project trust gave was the supportive first step to be able to successfully travel independently with the knowledge and skills I gained during that time. Many thanks, Maja 2023 Philippines/Cambodia volunteer
  
 
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   Annie_ Russell 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. 100/10 experience. You will never regret this year away no matter what country you go to or however long you go for. I was in Malawi for a year in 2024/25 and it’s all I think about now since coming home. Not only did we live a life fully embracing the culture and environment around us, but I met the most amazing people during this time away and some even lucky to call my sisters. This is all thanks to Project Trust and their amazing work that they do sending young people out to come back with a heart full of memories and love for a new country.
  
 
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   Loz Manley 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I volunteered with PT in 23/24 in Honduras. I had the most amazing year assisting with English teaching at the school I was based in and learning from the teachers around me. I was also so lucky to get to travel around Central America in my time off / at the end of the school year.

Central America is a place a never dreamed of going to and knew nothing about before PT but I am now in awe of the beauty of all of the countries I travelled too!
  
 
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   Romilly Middlemiss 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I could not recommend Project Trust more! I spent a year volunteering in Japan with them and was incredibly supported the whole way through. No other organization does anything like this and gives you the opportunity to have such a wide reaching positive impact! I'm definitely missing it a lot :)
  
 
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   Ruben Mathers 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I was a PT volunteer in Ghana 23/24, and this experience was incredible, it really helped develop me as a person and would highly recommend it to anyone with a sense of adventure, determination and enjoys seeing new places and experiencing new culture
  
 
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   Sarah Parker 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Project Trust is a great organisation that has a huge impact on those that volunteer aswell as partner communities internationally. Staff care a lot about Volunteers’ personal development.
  
 
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   Meg Gower 
 
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I volunteered with Project Trust in Ghana in 2015/16 and it completely changed my life. To have such an enriching experience at 18 years old, the chance to immerse myself in a different culture and befriend people from a totally different background to my own -  it has had an unbelievably positive impact on my life. I made life-long friends and memories that will last forever. Couldn't recommend it enough!
  
 
  
  
 
 
   Google rating score: 4.5 of 5, based on 30 reviews