How do travel and expenses work?

We aim to ensure most of our volunteer opportunities are accessible via public transport and we're happy to help you work out a route to and from your volunteering.

For some internally organised projects, we will organise transport. If this is the case, you will be notified upon application.

We ask all the organisations we work with to cover volunteer travel expenses as a minimum, and we cover travel expenses up to the value of a day-saver bus ticket for other opportunities, so transport to and from your opportunity should never leave you out of pocket.

Please ask either the external organisation you are volunteering with or a member of our team about how to get your travel expenses reimbursed. You can also request a copy of our expenses policy by emailing us at volunteering@shu.ac.uk.