Active community volunteering - Bike maintenance (Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)

Looking for a volunteer to help with basic bike maintenance within schools. This will be in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole area.

You can help make more active travel happen in your community. By repairing bicycles and providing helpful tips, you will support people to use their bicycles when travelling in their area. You will help within different parts of your local community, including in educational and workplace settings.

Doing bike maintenance activities, you will:

• help do repairs of bicycles in your area (tools provided)
• 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 organisations
• 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 obtain Velotech accreditation according to your experience.

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 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 (day or evening), and sometimes in weekends as part of an organised 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 organisation 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. 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.