Volunteering is a great way for you to get involved and share or develop your skills. By volunteering, you’ll make a valuable contribution to the work that Your charity does throughout the local community in the borough.
No matter what amount of time or skills you have to offer, you can make a real difference.
Key information
- Start Date: 28th February 2025
- End Date: 1st January 2027
- Volunteer: Weekly
- Availability: Monday AM, Monday PM, Tuesday AM, Tuesday PM, Wednesday AM, Wednesday PM, Thursday AM, Thursday PM, Friday AM, Friday PM
- Tasks: In this role you will:
• Working with our Your Trust Walk Leader to plan the routes.
• Arranging dates for walks and committing to those dates.
• Our Your Trust Walk Leader will then advertise the walks.
• Checking and accurately risk assessing the route for difficulty and familiarising yourself with the route before the date, this is normally done the day before the scheduled walk.
• Introduce yourself and welcome and include everyone who comes on the walk.
• Being responsible for the group during the walk, and working with the group to make sure everyone is as safe as possible.
• As a middle and back walker you will be walking with the slower walkers, making sure that nobody is left behind and we walk as a group.
• You will need to be switched on and know what to do to help in an emergency.
• If any incident or accident happens on the walk, report it quickly to the walk leader. - Training: - Gain valuable experience and improve your CV
- Meet new people and be part of a friendly group of committed walkers
- Learn new skills and make good use of your existing ones
- Support something that you are interested in
- Earn rewards for your time with our volunteer recognition programme
- Walk Leader’s training through Living Well.
- First Aid Training * certificate upon completion of all training
- Support and advice from other Walk Leaders.
- Helping people access the outdoors on foot. - Interests: Community, Environment, Health and wellbeing, Sport, Wildlife
- Activities: Lending a helping hand, Stewarding
- DBS Check: Yes
• Working with our Your Trust Walk Leader to plan the routes.
• Arranging dates for walks and committing to those dates.
• Our Your Trust Walk Leader will then advertise the walks.
• Checking and accurately risk assessing the route for difficulty and familiarising yourself with the route before the date, this is normally done the day before the scheduled walk.
• Introduce yourself and welcome and include everyone who comes on the walk.
• Being responsible for the group during the walk, and working with the group to make sure everyone is as safe as possible.
• As a middle and back walker you will be walking with the slower walkers, making sure that nobody is left behind and we walk as a group.
• You will need to be switched on and know what to do to help in an emergency.
• If any incident or accident happens on the walk, report it quickly to the walk leader.
- Meet new people and be part of a friendly group of committed walkers
- Learn new skills and make good use of your existing ones
- Support something that you are interested in
- Earn rewards for your time with our volunteer recognition programme
- Walk Leader’s training through Living Well.
- First Aid Training * certificate upon completion of all training
- Support and advice from other Walk Leaders.
- Helping people access the outdoors on foot.