Campaigns and policy volunteer (London Healthy Streets scorecard campaign support)

If you have an enthusiasm and commitment to the environment and 'healthy streets' agenda or an understanding of the issues, we’re looking for a volunteer to support the London Healthy Streets Scorecard project. This highly influential project, now in its fifth year, is led by a coalition of major London and national environment and transport charities. It promotes six key actions we want London boroughs to take – and we publish data each year to show how they’re doing.

Your role will be to help make this project even more influential by supporting our Project Manager with tasks ranging from research and PR to communications, policy, and campaigning work. Ultimately what we need is someone who can help us ensure local borough councillors and officers feel public pressure.

What difference will you make? Your impact in this role work on key environmental projects across London will help CPRE London to move closer to being a zero-carbon city, help strengthen biodiversity, and nurture nature for the good of wildlife and Londoners. We would like volunteers to carry out research into whether Councils have declared a climate emergency, and if policies of adopted and emerging Local Plans have been refreshed to take this into account.

We want to work with local authorities across the area to highlight measures that they can take to ensure any new development is truly sustainable and that any associated harm is mitigated or compensated for to create net benefits in the future. It’s vital that Local Plans have good policies to ensure this important issue is addressed adequately.

You could choose to assess the actions and Local Plan of one or more Councils across the area, or locally to you - to fit in with your availability and other commitments

Commitment This is a home-based role with some attendance at meetings, including online meetings and events. We provide out-of-pocket travel expenses should this be required.

Volunteering with us is a fantastic way to help us champion environmental issues such as the climate emergency, renewable energy, biodiversity and sustainable transport.

With your support we can do even more! Campaigns and policy volunteers have an essential role in influencing decision making on environmental and land-use issues

Our friendly team will provide you with training and support to develop in your role. You’ll gain valuable skills and experience in campaigning and collaborating with others.