Timperley Eco Community Volunteers

Do you want to lead your local community to be a cleaner, greener more sustainable place to live in?

Action for Sustainable Living specialises in training and coaching local people to start up fun sustainability projects of their own design and making. 

We will help you to recruit a team of committed and passionate volunteers to get involved with your project, and help you gain the skills to lead the group.

If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated person able to spend around 8 hours each week on your project, sign up today.

Action for Sustainable Living regularly invite applications for new Local Project Managers.  Drop us a line or email to talk about your ideas and find out more.

Local Project Manager Training includes:

• Project Management
• Presentation Skills
• Press and Media
• Volunteer Management
• Fundraising
• Constituting groups
• Evaluating community projects. 

Want to know more? Call 0161 237 3357 or email [email protected],uk and ask about becoming a Local Project Manager.

What you can expect from Action for Sustainable Living

• Coaching from an experienced Community Project Coordinator.

• Training that relates to both your work and key sustainability issues.

• Regular support and supervision from a named supervisor.

• An induction that introduces you to Action for Sustainable Living's work and networks.

• The opportunity to develop your skills through hands-on experience.

• Volunteering expenses to cover your food and travel costs.  

Two themes run through and inform this role:

• The need for us all to make lifestyle changes if we are to create a sustainable world (“Sustainable” is here defined as “the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now, and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, while living within the limits of supporting ecosystems”)

• The importance of strengthening local links so that issues of sustainability can be tackled from a local perspective.  It is essentially a Human Scale approach which can be defined as “living as if people and their communities really mattered, which implies a shift towards more local decision-making, and local work, food, energy and exchange: it means people taking responsibility for themselves, those around them and the environment they share in common”.

Action for Sustainable Living is presently only able to support people living in the following areas of Greater : Heaton Moor, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Norris, Heaton Chapel, Ardwick, Hulme, Longsight, Gorton South, Levenshulme, Rusholme, Moss Side, Whalley Range, Fallowfield, Chorlton, Chorlton Park, Old Moat, Withington, Burnage, Didsbury West or Didsbury East or any of the Trafford wards