Volunteering - Next Steps

Arrange a visit

Please use our location finder to highlight your local hub you wish to support. Through the hub page you will be able to find all the details for our regional teams who deliver the sessions. Please liaise with them to arrange a visit to the hub so you can see what we do first hand, what’s involved and meet our current staff, volunteers and participants.

What to bring with you

Our Wheels for All hubs are based in a variety of settings, from athletics tracks to country parks, so the facilities and provisions available can vary between locations.

Food and refreshments
Tea and coffee will be available at most hubs. This may be provided by the Wheels for All team or, at some locations, there may be an external café where refreshments can be purchased. Please bring your own lunch and any additional food or drinks you may need throughout the session.

Clothing and footwear
Our sessions are predominantly outdoors, with varying levels of shelter, so please come prepared for the weather conditions. We recommend wearing comfortable, practical outdoor clothing and good, comfortable footwear, as you may spend time standing, walking and working around the cycles.

As you will be working with cycles and may have the opportunity to ride them, please avoid clothing with loose, dangling or trailing parts that could potentially become caught in wheels, spokes or other moving parts. Clothing that allows you to move freely and comfortably is ideal.

There will be some limited waterproof clothing available on site for new volunteers, but we recommend bringing your own suitable waterproofs where possible.

• Volunteer clothing*
  Once you have completed all of your initial volunteer paperwork and induction, and have attended three volunteer sessions, we will liaise with you about ordering your Wheels for All volunteer uniform.

This means that, when you first start volunteering, please don’t worry about having your own Wheels for All clothing straight away. We will provide you with what you need to get started.

What can you expect to get involved with at our sessions?

Helping at a Wheels for All session can include activities such as:

🚲 Moving our cycles from storage ready for use
🚲 Checking our cycles are safe to use for the upcoming session
🚲 Meeting and greeting participants
🚲 Signing in our participants to the session
🚲 Helping to fit participants and their carers with helmets
🚲 Providing encouragement to participants and monitoring the track
🚲 Moving our cycles back into storage

Volunteer induction

We want to ensure all our volunteers have the skills and knowledge to feel comfortable in their volunteer role helping to deliver safe inclusive cycling sessions, to help with this:

We have created a volunteer induction resource to help you get to know our cycles, participants, and best practices for session delivery (plus much more!) to allow you to hit the ground running at your first session.

Our staff members and current volunteers will be on hand to support you as you start to get more involved with volunteering with us.

Volunteering policies

Please take the time to familiarise yourself with our volunteer policies as they contain information that is important to know before supporting a session.

Our Volunteer Role Profiles will help give you a flavour of the tasks our volunteers carry out and help you see how you may wish to support. 

Our Volunteer Handbook will provide you an introduction to our charity, our programmes and the policies that are in place to support our volunteers.

Our Volunteer Agreement outlines the expectations of our volunteers and what you can expect in return from Wheels for All.

Our Volunteer Code of Conduct defines the behaviours and values we expect of our volunteers when supporting Wheels for All to ensure a high standard of experience for all participants, carers, and fellow volunteers.

Our Wheels for All clothing policy outlines the provision of volunteer clothing, the expectations for its use, and guidelines for its care and replenishment.

Our Expenses Policy details the out-of-pocket expenses volunteers can claim for and the process to follow.