Volunteering for Re~Cycle has numerous and various options, depending on what makes you tick and how much time you are committing.  Here's a short selection to give you an idea, followed by a more detailed break down:

Projects, eg.:

• Olympics
• Royal Mail

How much time are you thinking of?

I suggest choosing one or two projects or areas to help with, so you feel like you're making progress and can get to grips with it.
My suggestion is to have groups of people working on different areas, so that

• if someone is busy on a project, or on holiday or leaves the country, then the other people can keep the wheels rolling
• motivation and energy
• more fun and networking!

People can volunteer in more than one area.

Setting Up And Running Branches Of Re~Cycle:

To collect, compact, cannibalise and ship, as well as with local benefits.
Need a small group of people, to divide the tasks down, to help with motivation and inspiration and for accountability.

There are people interested in doing this, you can support them if you're not local

At the moment people are working on;

• Cambridge
• Cardiff and Mid Wales
• London

Spreading The Word:

Please tell your friends, families and colleagues about Re~Cycle, especially targeting bike users and bike clubs as cyclists know how great a benefit there will be in lives of their overseas’ recipients. They can get involved in any of the different projects listed below, or donate bikes or parts, spare time, and/or money. Any help will be very gratefully accepted.

Open Volunteer And Internship Positions

Administration:

In Colchester and Brighton, as well as online, helping with:

• email
• enquiries
• editing documents
• organisation
• assistant to the Founder and CEO
  • following up leads
  • standard e-mails with tweaks
  • projects

Africa visits:

• Our partners could do with help, both bike and shop skills
• Suggest minimum of 1 month, as things take a while over there, and should do some investigating of 'other things', since you're there already...

Africa support:

• Look at applications
• Support existing partners
• Research potential partners
• Importing info
• Francophone Africa partner support; looking at and communicating with prospective partners and their applications, support afterwards, monitoring and feedback

Events

• Running a Re~Cycle stall at bike shows or environmental events
• Running a coffee or cup-cake fundraising event (have support docs for this)
• Showing a Re~Cycle film or slide show at a local rotary or faith group, etc.

Fundraising:

• Individuals and companies (tax efficient donations), grant making trusts,
• Sponsored bike rides
  • support riders with information, develop the How To sponsored ride section and thanking them
  • find existing organised sponsored bike rides / organisations
  • develop relationships with existing organised sponsored bike rides / organisations
• Researching trusts, companies, governments and individuals
• Applications / asking trusts, companies, governments and individuals
• Legacy Campaign - takes time to set up, though very good income stream for charities
• Give As You Earn (GAYE) payroll giving, which is tax effective
  • promoting it to companies

Internships:

• Colchester and Brighton
• Accomodation not provided, sorry

Legal & Accounting admin:

• accounting
• monitoring,
• legal matters
• charity and company rules and regulations
• tax efficient donations

Logistics:

• local haulage
• moving bikes and parts around the country
• finding storage
• organise shipping
• getting donations of shipping
• could really do with some help from someone who's lived and breathed logistics for 20 or so years, to help us look at the whole issue of bikes being thrown away and people walking and how to get the bikes from here to there