Active community volunteering - Bike maintenance (Bike Mechanic (Schools))

You can help make more active travel happen in your local school community. By repairing bicycles and providing helpful tips, you will support pupils and staff to use their bicycles when travelling to and from school, and even beyond! You will help within different schools in your local area, with occasional travel if you so wish.

**Doing bike maintenance activities, you will: **

• Help do repairs of bicycles (tools provided or you can bring your own)
• provide tips on bike care, when needed
• Support and encourage people to make sustainable travel choices
• Stay in touch with the local Sustrans team in your area, and with other local partner organizations
• Complete some paperwork, when needed (e.g., records of repairs you have done).
• You will get continued support and training from Sustrans and opportunities to learn more, if interested. There may be an opportunity to have additional training according to your experience.

**So... Does this sound like you? **

**You… **

have experience with repairing of and looking after bicycles can carry out tasks independently enjoy engaging and helping people with their bicycles like doing tasks that involve paying attention to details are happy to support people staying active by fixing their bicycles are able to complete some basic paperwork, when needed share our values and mission to get more people cycling, walking and wheeling in your local area. Then let us know your interest helping to look after and repair bicycles for people in your local school community.

**Time commitment **

We are flexible on how much time you can help each week or month. Let us know what suits you.

Usually, people help for around 4 hours per month, but this varies. The sessions take place during the week and during the school day (between 9am and 3pm), and potentially there may be the opportunity to help out at weekends as part of an organized event.

** Volunteering for everyone with Sustrans**

We are committed to representing the diverse communities we work with, and we welcome people from all backgrounds to volunteer with us. We commit to equity and an inclusive culture, so volunteering is for everyone.

We believe that a diverse and inclusive organization brings with it a diversity of ideas and ways of working, which strengthens everything we do.

Please have a look at the website above and our Volunteering agreement before you join. Then you know what we all expect from each other when volunteering.

Your accessibility

Please let us know in the application form, if you need any support or adjustments to make our first chat together and volunteering a positive experience for you.

Any expenses for helping with these activities, which have been agreed, will be paid back to you. This can include for tools and public transport on the day of volunteering.

If you don’t have an email address, or for any other reason aren’t able to fill in our online form, not to worry. Reach out to your local Volunteer Coordinator (find here), and they can fill in the details for you.

**We will ask you for the contact details of a person, who you have known for more than 6 months (1 reference). ** Please have these ready when filling in the application form. If you need support identifying a reference, please let us know.

Safeguarding

For these volunteering activities, we will usually not do a disclosure check before you start. You will initially have a few taster volunteering days before we will implement a full DBS check, as you will be working in educational settings with children. However, this might change if you will be engaged with children or adults at risk. You can read our Safeguarding statement here. This sets out our commitment to keep people safe from harm.