If your club is recruiting volunteers and have some volunteering opportunities available, please contact us on activerutland@rutland.gov.uk. Alternatively, if you are looking to get involved in volunteering, please find some opportunities below.

This year the Countryside Access Forum together with Rutland County Council are undertaking the Miles Without Barriers project. The aim of the project is to create an interactive website, where members of the public can access the site via PC, tablet or smart phone to identify public rights of way (PROW), which are suitable for them in terms of accessibility e.g. stile free routes.

Whilst we know where all the legal furniture is on the public rights of way, we do not have the details that are required to aid people with limited mobility. For instance we do not know which kissing gates have radar locks, which stiles are BSI compliant and the details of non BSI compliant furniture. Due to this we need help from volunteers to survey the PROW network and feed back the information to us.

Volunteers will be trained at a venue close to where they live. The training will be delivered indoors and also outdoors on a public right of way. It is expected that the training will last approximately 4 hours, on a day and time which is suitable for the volunteer. Initially we require an expression of interest, to see who would like to volunteer to help us with this project, where we should have the training locations and when people are available for training.

So if you are interested in helping people with limited mobility, enjoy the Rutland public rights of way network, please complete the registration form below.