Our volunteer roles are evolving constantly, role descriptions are currrently being written and our Outreach Co-ordinators or Planning Advisors will provide you with all the materials/resources and support you need to carry out any activity.

Outreach activity support

To deliver our range of workshop activities, we require team leaders, facilitators, specialist topic deliverers and general support volunteers.

Awareness raising events

Volunteers can help raise the profile of PAE and what we do. This can be done through a short presentation or manning a stand at an event.

Publicity/media

If you have an interest in promoting our services or ensuring success stories get out into the public domain, you could get involved in sending out promotional materials, contacting other organisations, helping with press work, writing newsletter articles, taking photographs, liaising with political contacts or helping support us to maintain an up-to-date social networking presence.

Frontrunner liaison

To keep on top of emerging good practice and learning outcomes from the Frontrunner pilots, we need volunteers to act as a point of contact to gather information from these groups and feed back to our Outreach Co-ordinators.

Advice line

Volunteers are needed to support the advice line (both telephone and email enquiries). To ensure we offer the best service, we only allow corporate members of the RTPI to give professional advice on behalf of Planning Aid England.

Corporate members based in or near to London can help deliver advice from the office base at the RTPI. Those who are further flung can still offer their services through a call back system or through email support. Non corporate members can also get involved at the London office by distributing call backs or forwarding emails (see also casework below).

Casework

As a casework volunteer you will be assigned to helpline callers who meet our eligibility criteria, and will provide free, independent and impartial professional support. (This will mainly be corporate members but can be dependant on the case). There are also opportunities for office based volunteers, under supervision of our Planning Advisors. to identify suitable volunteers and then assign a case.

Writing web-based resources

Get involved in preparing information, advice sheets on good practice, how to get involved in planning, best practice case studies, guidance on the planning process and maintaining up to date downloadable documents.

Specialist register

The register provides us with a mechanism to share your specialist skills across the whole of our network. This could involve giving support by phone, email or giving specialist topic support to our materials or outreach workshops.

Other professionals and non planners

There are also opportunities if you are a non-planner and we welcome professionals from other relevant disciplines.