Facilitators will help organise and deliver face-to-face Surrey Talks Climate workshops in Surrey, receive training, lead sessions for community groups, promote events, support participants' learning, and ensure they feel confident framing positive, effective climate conversations.
What difference will you make?
This role directly supports our mission to strengthen community-led climate action across Surrey. Effective communication is essential for engaging our community, building confidence, and enabling constructive discussions about solutions. By helping deliver high-quality, research-informed workshops, facilitators expand our capacity to reach many more community groups than staff alone could manage.
Volunteer facilitators act as trusted messengers, helping translate research into practical, usable skills that groups can take forward into their everyday conversations. Their support with planning, outreach, and follow-up enables us to build sustained relationships with grassroots organisations, ensuring the training has long-term impact.
Overall, this role helps us empower local communities, broaden our engagement network, and accelerate meaningful, positive climate action across Surrey.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for someone who enjoys working with people and is motivated by helping communities have positive, constructive conversations about climate action. The ideal volunteer is warm, approachable, and able to make others feel comfortable speaking in a group setting.
Strong communication and listening skills are the most important qualities for this role. You don't need to be a climate expert, what matters most is your ability to guide discussion, encourage participation, and help groups reflect on what they're learning. Being open-minded, patient, and supportive will help you create a safe environment where people feel confident practising new skills.
Experience in facilitation, teaching, training, or community organising. We provide some training in the Surrey Talks Climate research and workshop format, so enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important than specific technical knowledge.
We're also looking for someone organised, reliable, and comfortable working collaboratively with staff and other volunteers. A positive, solutions-focused outlook and a genuine interest in empowering communities will help you thrive in this role.
What will you be doing?
Volunteers will help design, organise, promote, and deliver a series of face-to-face Surrey Talks Climate workshops for community groups. Full training in the Surrey Talks Climate research will be given so they can explain the most effective communication approaches. Will work with the Commission Manager and other volunteers in workshop development.
Facilitators will co-lead workshops in Surrey, guiding community groups through the research, supporting discussion, and creating a safe space for practising positive climate-focused conversations. After each workshop, volunteers will send follow-up information and reminders to help groups apply what they've learned in their own settings.