Creative media volunteering (Healthy Valleys creative case study)

Healthy Valleys is a community-led health initiative that supports communities in Lanarkshire. Sustrans Communities Team have been providing them with support to develop a walking, cycling, and wheeling project. They would like to find a volunteer who is passionate about active travel to create a case study that will showcase their project. This should be in a format that is engaging and more interesting than a report with photos. It could be in the form of a short film, comic strip, animation, photo blog, podcast, or anything else you can dream up! Sustrans can pay for training in any of these skills if required. You will be volunteering for Sustrans, although the task involves liaising with Healthy Valleys.

There is flexibility in this opportunity, and we are interested to hear your ideas or preferences for how it can be shaped. We can have a chat about it together.

Does this sound like you?

You…

• like to be creative and come up with new and different ideas
• would like to engage with digital media tasks
• are interested in encouraging more people to walk, wheel and cycle
• feel comfortable communicating about active travel with others
• have some skills and experience with the tasks that you would like to help with
• would like to develop your existing, skills in videography, blogging, photography
• can carry out tasks independently
• share our values and mission to get more people cycling, walking and wheeling.

Then let us know your interest in helping us get creative and have stories to share with everyone.

Time commitment

The case study needs to be completed by mid-June but we are flexible about how you organize your time to complete the task

What you will be doing

• Talking to staff and volunteers to learn about the active travel project and the community
• Developing an idea for a case study that tells the story of the project
• Putting your idea together and working with staff to ensure that the final version is appealing and accessible to the local community
• communicates clearly why people should get involved with the project

What's in it for you

• Learn new skills or gain experience in using your existing abilities
• Give something back to the community and support sustainable travel and health
• Opportunity to access our online volunteering platform, where you can collect details of your activities, find events, connect with people in your area, share your volunteering stories, read Sustrans news, have access to free training and more

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.