Volunteering for everyone

We welcome people from all backgrounds to volunteer with us.

Together, we continue to learn and make efforts to ensure that volunteering with Sustrans is for everyone and with everyone in mind.

Everyone should be enabled, welcomed and feel safe to offer their time in a range of different ways with us.

Be an upstander

Are you an active bystander when things happen?

We want everyone to feel able and equipped to help, intervene and speak up when others are experiencing unacceptable behaviour.

This includes when engaged with volunteering activities with Sustrans.

Familiarise yourself with the guide and tools (the 5Ds) developed by ‘Right to Be’ to do this. You can also use these for a discussion or session in your local team or area.

If you are volunteering with Sustrans, reach out to your local Volunteer Coordinator to get the toolkit we have created for this.

We expect Sustrans employees and volunteers alike to react to and challenge unacceptable behaviour.

Volunteering for everyone standard

Volunteers and Sustrans employees play an active part in creating and ensuring a volunteering culture of belonging.

Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect when engaged with volunteering activities.

We do not accept harassment, discrimination, threats or bullying of any kind.

We have these expectations and more of each other when engaged in volunteering.

These are set out in our Volunteering for Everyone standard.

It supports us all to have a greater understanding of the values and behaviours we wish to uphold across volunteering.

You can read the standard and all of the supporting documents at the bottom of the page.

Download and read the standard:

Volunteering for everyone standard

Volunteering for everyone standard (easy read version)

Download and read supporting documents:

Examples of unacceptable behaviour

Our guide to identifying unacceptable behaviour whilst volunteering. 

Reporting a concern

Our guide to reporting concerns about unacceptable behaviour whilst volunteering.

Reporting a concern anonymously - online form

Our online form to anonymously report concerns about unacceptable behaviour whilst volunteering.

Reporting a concern anonymously - print and post form

Our form to anonymously report concerns about unacceptable behaviour whilst volunteering. Print and post to our Freepost address.

External organisations support list

Our list of UK-wide organisations and charities who can offer independent support.