Volunteers Wanted

Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company is the volunteer-run company that manages DalesBus services into and around the Yorkshire Dales. Wholly owned by charity Friends of the Dales, we help provide and promote public transport to improve people’s lives.

The public are showing that they need our services more than ever and we urgently need more help to rise to the challenge of maintaining and developing our services.

If we can help ensure that more bus services into and around the Dales are well run and marketed, we can connect more people to communities and the countryside without the use of a car. By doing this, we can do more to reduce social isolation, encourage healthy exercise, relieve congestion, reduce pollution and support the local economy, expanding markets for local businesses.

Over 50,000 journeys are made on our DalesBus services each year, and we hope that you can help us to go further. We are particularly keen to find people with interest/knowledge/skills/ideas in:

• Recruiting, managing and supporting volunteers 
• Marketing bus and train services - including tasks such as producing online and printed materials, managing social media, leaflet distribution and keeping bus stop timetables updated
• Engaging with local communities, raising awareness of DalesBus
• Generating new ideas to increase DalesBus’ positive impact
• Leadership, strategy and governance of organisations

If you share our passion for improving lives within and around the Yorkshire Dales by bus and think you may be able to help, we’d love to hear from you. We will offer support to help you settle into any specific roles you take on. We would really appreciate offers of help at all levels.

The Board of Directors meets around four times a year at mutually convenient times and locations, in person or online, with directors and other volunteers carrying out various tasks throughout the year, depending on the responsibilities they agree to take on.

We actively welcome expressions of interest from people from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everyone volunteering with us should be willing to commit to the values set out on our website.

Please email [email protected] as soon as possible to express interest, providing information about the interest/knowledge/skills/ideas and time you might be able to share. Feel free to ask any questions, and please don’t hesitate to promote this opportunity to anyone else you know who might be interested.

We will respond to questions and expressions of interest as quickly as we can on a rolling basis, and look forward to hearing from you shortly.