Volunteer

You Can Ride 2 depends on our amazing volunteers to run our events. Furthermore, participating families who volunteer can qualify to have some of their fees reduced or refunded.

All volunteers must complete a confidentiality agreement before their shift. Certain positions may require a background check.

Upcoming 2025 Events:

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Lead Team Involvement:

• Lead Team Committee Interest List

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Volunteer Roles & Skills

Most You Can Ride 2’s volunteer positions do not require any special experience! Certain roles (such as Therapist and Mechanic) need specific skills and are always needed.

Therapist

Physiotherapists, occupational therapists, or similar trained professionals assess a child’s needs and how a bike can fit into their lives. Students working towards degrees in the field can also serve this role, under the direction of a professional therapist.

Experience working with adaptive bikes is an asset, but isn’t required to help.

We do offer professional development courses on Adaptive Cycling for Therapists. These will be announced on our website and our social media platforms.

Mechanic

Mechanics maintain, repair, tune, and adapt our fleet of adaptive bicycles, and consult with therapists on coming up with more ‘creative’ solutions should they be required.

While we specifically look for experience with repairing, building, or modifying bicycles, a wide range of mechanical or technical skills can qualify you as a mechanic. No experience with children with disabilities is required.

You don’t need your own tools – we have multiple workstations with all of the tools needed to run a professional bike shop.

General

You Can Ride 2 is more than just therapists and mechanics. Our events have many places where any person can assist. The roles vary from event to event, but some common ones are:

• YCR2 Family Ambassador – Share your family’s adapted cycling stories and experiences to the wider communities
• Setup and teardown – Often done the nights before and after an event, these short shifts still count for a full volunteer commitment.
• Fundraiser – Help with YCR2’s various fundraising efforts, or organize one of your own!
• Greeters – Welcome guests, check in participants, provide information
• Bike Loading and Unloading – Assist families with loading and unloading bikes into/out of their vehicles
• Photographer / Videographer – Requires a good camera – a phone won’t do.
• Inventory – Check in or check out bikes
• Finance – Collect and document payments
• Quality Control – Verify paperwork for completion
• Administrative Support – Help create and manage participant files
• Runners – Assist our Learn to Ride course by supporting one student while they ride (police record check with vulnerable sector check required)

As events unfold during the year, other opportunities may show up as well.

Other – Volunteer from Home

If you can’t make it in to one of our events, you can still volunteer! Here are some ways you can help You Can Ride 2 from home or on other days.

• Crafting/Hands-On Work – Do you have a particular skill in crafting that might help out? Volunteers can help mend torn upholstery, machine specialty parts, and construct our storage racks.
• Bike Transport – Do you have a truck, trailer, or similar large transport vehicle? Many families do not have the means to transport our (often large) adaptive bikes to or from our events. Transport volunteers make cycling even more accessible for families in need, and we can cover fuel costs.
• Administrative Calling or Data Entry – A little free time can go a long way. Sometimes, we need to contact a lot of people by phone or transcribe a lot of hand-written forms, and we may reach out to volunteers to assist with this. You can (usually) do this from home!

And that’s not all – we’re always open to suggestions from people willing to volunteer in ways beyond those described here. These have included assisting with augmented communication, video editing, or even IT support. If you think you can help out in another way, contact us and we’ll see about making it work.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact info@youcanride2.ca.