Join Transition St Andrews
If nothing else, Transition is about getting involved in your local community. Transition is made up of people all across the University and local community. Coming together, we are taking practical action on the climate crisis, building community resilience, and cultivating a shared vision of a fairer, low carbon future. The ways to get involved:
1. Join our Steering Group which drives Transition forwards
2. Take on an internship or research project
3. Sign up to our newsletter
3. Get involved in regular volunteer sessions
4. If you are part of another organisation, group, or society, why not collaborate with us on projects and events
5. Utilise our services like The Tree, Bike Pool or Tool Share
6. Attend our events
Why Should I Volunteer with Transition?
Wrapping our heads around environmental issues can often leave us feeling lost and hopeless. This is what inspired the Transition movement. As a grassroots group, Transition is about bringing people together, making climate action fun and celebrating our community and the work we are doing. Taking local action on the climate crisis is one of the best ways to tangibly make a difference.
Not to mention, the Transition community is full of colourful, kind and creative folk who are worth meeting!
Volunteering Opportunities
See below to find our more about the various volunteer opportunities that we have on offer or are present around the University. Under each of them you can click to directly email the project lead.
Steering Group Member
The Transition Steering Group are responsible for shaping our vision and direction. Elections for the Steering Group are held during Candlemas semester.
Videographer
This role involves the creation of short films illustrating the work of Transition for public use as well as recording events and activities for use in publicity and on social media.
Garden Leader (Edible Campus)
Co-ordinating volunteers and organising gardening sessions for one of our 14 community gardens across St Andrews, as part of the Edible Campus project.
Garden Volunteer (Edible Campus)
To assist with gardening work at one or more Edible Campus gardens, our community food-growing project.
Tool Share Volunteer
To assist with the practical running of our Toolshare project, which loans out and maintains a wide range of tools to the local community.
St AndReuse “special items” Volunteer
To assist with finding homes for bulky or special items from the St And Re-use project. This could include contacting local welfare groups or online free and for sale in order to find the best social and environmental solution for items.
Skillshare Host
A key part of Transition work. We are always looking for friendly members of the community to host skill shares. Let us know! It is a great way to meet people and learn a new skill or hobby.
Bike Pool Mechanic
Helping to maintain and undertake minor repairs on bicycles brought to the St Andrews Bike Pool Workshops as well as sharing information on how to best maintain bikes.
Cycle for All Leaders
We’re are looking for cyclists to take out less mobile members of our community using our Side by Side tandem bike. It will require social and practical skills but be very rewarding experience for you and your ride.
Air Quality Monitoring Volunteer
Working in pairs, you’ll undertake a walk or cycle around St Andrews once per week whilst carrying a portable air quality monitor to collect information on air quality in St Andrews. You can then go on to analyse and map data to highlight issues.
Liftshare Champion
Carsharing is one of the easiest ways to reduce our Co2e and mitigate the impact of climate change. We’re on the hunt for volunteers to lead the way in changing travel behaviour amongst students and staff.
Active Travel Champions
Active Travel Champions are bound by the desire and drive to help support or deliver active travel initiatives in the local area. The message is clear – for the sake of people and planet lets work on delivering and spreading the word around the most efficient and environmentally friendly ways to get around.
Climate Know How and Fresk Facilitator
Helping to promote and facilitate our Climate Know How and Fresk sessions, which helps people learn about climate change and carbon reduction in an inspiring way. Training provided in partnership with Climate Action Fife
Community Green Mapping
Contributing towards the Fife Green Map you will use an Open Street Map tool to create a public online map direction folk to green resources and services as well as lovely spaces.
Conservation Action Volunteer
You will be involved in practical activities supporting the development of the St Andrews Forest – a community project seeking to identify, design and create new woodland in and around St Andrews.
Tree Warden
We are planting lots of trees but also need to champion those that we have. Working with the Climate Action Fife and the national tree warden scheme we are looking to host tree wardens in our local area to build and maintain our woods and special trees.
Research and Project Opportunities
We offer a number of opportunities for both students and members of the community to support us with our research, including the opportunity to undertake a dissertation or thesis on an environmental or sustainability topic with support from Transition or Environment Team staff.
Living Labs
Through Living Labs, Transition enables links between practice, teaching and research in and around St Andrews. We aim to support students in having a direct and positive impact in the local environment and community.
Community PV Study
This project will analyse the opportunities for working with community groups to expand PV onto community buildings and/or land with the support of Climate Action Fife.
Electric Vehicles in Fife Study
This study will scrutinise the policy of Fife Council in relation to EV charging infrastructure and explore how this can be improved, with a particular focus on whether the current policy is progressive enough to help meet Zero Carbon targets.
