Volunteering Has Never Been Easier
Do you have time or expertise you’re willing to share to help us grow our organisation? Check out the opportunities below and support us today!
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The process is easy!
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Tell us what areas you'd like to help us in
We want you to be excited by what you’re helping us with! Pick areas that you’re interested in, want to learn about or are already an expert in.
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We will run you through any training
Nothing we do is rocket science, but we will prep you in the best way possible to make the greatest impact.
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Make a difference to Bike the UK for MS
After setting a few expectations, we will work with you to make a lasting difference for the charity. We can discuss compensation for the efforts too!
Marketing
Help us reach our audience
We have so many exciting ideas for reaching prospective riders. Help us execute them to grow our trips.
Social Media
Help us manage our social media channels by sharing pre planned content, engage with our followers, support prospective riders with their questions and have access to tools for creating exciting content!
Q&A Webinars
Arrange, advertise and run Zoom webinar sessions for prospective riders. Running regularly (ideally monthly) evening information sessions will help potential riders get the answers they’re after.
Content Writing
We are always looking to share our story! Help us write content for our blog such as rider experiences, MS stories, tips on preparing for our adventures, annual wrap ups and much more!
University Marketing
Arrange, advertise and run in person and virtual university presentations for prospective riders to get them excited about joining our trips. Also looking for support contacting RAG societies.
Email Campaigns
Help us create dynamic, exciting email campaigns to be shared with a variety of audiences from newsletter subscribers, alumni and prospective riders.
Google Ads & SEO
Manage our Google Ads account, following best practices to maintain ads running and creating new ones. Look for areas on our website to improve SEO and manage our Google Business profile.
PR Management
Seek out opportunities to share our story whether online, in magazines, national or local newspapers, it all helps!
Print Media
Look for opportunities for paid features in cycling content such as online cycling websites, magazines, podcasts etc.
Distribute Materials
Coordinate the distribution of our posters, fliers & brochures to alumni, friends of the charity and business willing to share them.
Route management & Preparation
Help us make our trips even better
Help us with the build up towards the rides, whether that’s sharing your experience with new riders or helping with logisitics.
New trip Planning
Help us gather ideas from alumni for new route ideas. Create plans for overnight locations, daily mileages and support required to gauge viability of a new adventure.
Improved Rider Tracking
Safety is always our number one priority and being able to see where riders are only adds to this! Investigate new ways to track the team and reach our to potential sponsors if needed.
Contacting Cycling Clubs
We pass hundreds of towns en route with cycling clubs. We’d love to engage with them better and invite them out to ride with the team. Help us with contacting the clubs.
Route Lead
We are always on the hunt for route leaders! Whether new or experienced, we’d love to have you back on a trip to share your experience as a rider and help others have the best experience possbile.
Rider Advice & Support
Connect with our riders to share your experience from the trips, give advice and support with their preparations via phone, email or social media. Investigate new and improved ways of sharing information with our riders.
Route Leader Recruitment
Can’t route lead yourself? Why not help us find other suitable folks to take on a role? Reach out to alumni that have shown interest in leading in the past or prospective outside help.
Alumni Engagement
Help us Grow our alumni family
We LOVE our alumni family! Help us keep everyone engaged and continue to grow.
Annual Alumni Project
We want to set up an annual alumni project, whether that’s a volunteering day, fundraiser or alumni weekend get together.
'Adopt a stop'
Encourage alumni and donors to ‘adopt a stop’ by donating supplies like food & drink for a particular rest stop on a trip. The stop will be named after the alumni and they will become a big name in the alumni family!
New fundraising
Help us boost our fundraising
There are always new ways for us to increase our fundraising and income which will go on to support the MS community.
Sponsors
We are always looking for new product or corporate sponsors. Help us research potential sponsors, submit & track applications and manage new connections. Do you have a strong network to lean on?
Grant Applications
Help us with finding and applying to relevant grants from foundations, pharmaceutical companies or other corporates. Although not an easy task, it can be incredibly rewarding when large grants come through!
Online Shop Management
Support us with managing our Masuri Shop as well as coming up with ideas of new products we can sell to revamp our own online shop. Gather interest in products from alumni, find suppliers and get orders fulfilled.
Digital presence
Help us improve our website
Our digital presence is so important for reaching new riders, sharing our journey and raising awareness of MS.
SEO
Constantly look for ways to improve our website’s SEO scores and google ranking.
Website Testing
Help us with testing new features on our website before we launch them.
Graphics & Animations
Stress-free Volunteering
Help us behind the scenes
This is a great opportunity to see the ins and outs of how a small charity works. Boost your experience and CV in new areas or share the professional experience you already have! What have you got to lose?
- Great CV Experience
- Support the MS community
- Options for compensation
- Total flexibility
You ask, we answer
We’d love to have you involved! Get in touch below if you have any questions that haven’t already been answered.
Any time you’re willing to offer! Each task will vary, but essentially any help you can offer us will have a huge impact and we will be eternally grateful.
Learning new areas is part of the fun! Depending on the task, we will either look to train you with what we already to know or point you towards training materials online to build you knowledge.
Compensation for the various tasks is certainly an option depending on the value and expertise of what you can offer. Being a charity, we keep costs to a minimum so we’d love these to be volunteer roles. At very least, you’ll be receiving plenty of swag for your efforts!
We will be with you every step of the way! We will always be around to help answer questions, steer you in the right directions or generally checking in on how you’re doing. Don’t worry, you won’t have to do this solo.
