Volunteer with Alwoodley 2030

Please register to volunteer for any of the opportunities below. Alternatively, reach out to Jen Walper Roberts, hub worker, at info@alwoodley2030.org or book time to chat.

Nature & Food Volunteering Opportunities

Open Nature-Friendly Gardens Day: Co-Host

Can you help welcome garden visitors and keep garden hosts company?

On 11th May, 2025 100 Nature Friendly Gardens Club members will be opening up their gardens to share how they've taken steps to encourage wildlife and biodiversity on their own path of land. Homeowners/residents will volunteer as hosts and stay in their garden during the day. We're looking for volunteers to keep hosts company and enable them to take some breaks. You'll stay with them from 12:30 - 5pm. We can also create shifts if you can't stay for the whole afternoon. To volunteer complete this form or email opengardens@alwoodley2030.org

Nature Friendly Streets: Volunteer Lead

Would you like to help connect engage neighbours with taking nature-friendly actions on their own land?

Are you an enthusiast for encouraging and promoting nature? Looking for a nature and climate positive action you can take in a hyper-local way? The role would involve co-developing campaigns to encourage neighbours to join in on nature-friendly gardening, devising a blue-plaque award programme, leafleting, potentially hosting/facilitating meetings for neighbours, workign with Jen (hub worker) and together with local Parishes. To volunteer complete this form or email info@alwoodley2030.org

Incredible Edible - Public Veg Growing Volunteers

Incredible Edible is a movement to take back our public green spaces in order to grow healthy, local food on our common spaces.

This is a brilliant way to get to know your neighbours. Join in our existing projects on the King Lane Verge, in Moortown and Shadwell. No prior gardening experience necessary. Read more here, and register to volunteer to gain access to the WhatsApp group where members make plans to garden together.

Join the No Mow May through to Thigh High July Campaign

Our area has experienced tremendous loss of biodiversity. You can do so much to reverse this trend in your own garden.

Read more here, sign up, download and display your sign so that your neighbours know what you're up to.

Alwoodley April Bio Blitz

We need your help to better understand what nature needs nurturing in Alwoodley.

Our target for April is to have 100 local people use the iNaturalist app to make 10 observations each - a total of 1000 nature observations added to our iNaturalist biodiversity survey in April & May. This information is critical to helping our local parish councils and local nature groups understand our baseline biodiversity so that we can understand what interventions can best help us restore the biodiversity we've lost over the past few decades. Sign up here.

Homes & Energy Volunteering Opportunities

Alwoodley Community Energy: Various

Would you like to help a new community-owned green energy company to get off the ground? In 2024 Alwoodley 2024 successfully incubated a new, locally owned, green energy company. Read about Alwoodley Community Energy(ACE) here. Meet the talented volunteer board of Directors here. ACE is seeking to recruit volunteer support for the following tasks:

• Financial Management

• Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge

• Education / teaching

• Technical Knowledge of solar energy systems

• Marketing and Public Relations

• Legal expertise

• Funding research

• Sales and Negotiation

• Supply Chain and Procurement

• Risk Management

• Grant Writing and Fundraising

• Data Analysis and Reporting

• IT Support

• Environmental and Sustainability Knowledge

To volunteer complete this form, or contact

Sustainable Transport Volunteering Opportunities

Ward Wide Walk to School Week Call for Volunteer & Sponsorship Support

Walk to School Week is the week of 19th May. This community wide event is an opportunity for everyone to get involved to make it super fun. There will be activities in weeks leading up to and during the week itself.

Before Walk to School Week

Help us survey streets near schools using this Healthy Streets survey tool. All you have to do is take a 10 minute survey on one street in March or April, and then again in May during Walk to School week and then email your survey results to us.
Help outreach efforts (sign up tables and Whatsapp messages) to encourage families to take the pledge to actively travel to school.
Volunteer to check people in / out for bike mechanics and bike marking events.
Hang up signs and banners week of May 12th.

During Walk to School Week

Dress up in a costume and hand out stickers/offer high fives at school gates - we'll provide costumes!
Decorate your front garden with posters and signs to encourage children to walk/cycle / scoot.

This is just a tiny taste of ways you can help with Walk to School Week. Please contact Jen at info@alwoodley2030.org.

Overall Alwoodley 2030 Volunteering Opportunities

Steering Group Role: Treasurer

Are you comfortable with spreadsheets, bank reconciliations, and financial reports?

Alwoodley 2030: Climate Action Hub needs you! Perhaps this could be your way to do your bit to help Alwoodley to move into a sustainable future for generations to come. Everyone who gets involved enjoys getting to know others in the community who care about making our community better. We are a constituted group, moving towards becoming a Community Interest Organisation, so you'll be joining during an ambitious and exciting time!

Responsibilities include: Managing the Alwoodley 2030 finance email inbox; liaising with Together for Peace who hold the A2030 funds; authorising payments following approval process; keeping an up to date spreadsheet of payments made so we have a clear idea of how much funding we have, this includes recording budgeted spend; reporting (headline figures) to the Steering Group every 4-6 weeks; checking quarterly A2030 spreadsheet against record of spending; producing an annual report of spend, checking against T4P's account; participating as an active member of the Alwoodley 2030 Steering Group (meeting approx 8-9 times per year at mutually agreed time).

To discuss this role, please contact info@alwoodley2030.org.

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