Help monitor and protect the River Wey through hands‑on citizen science. Roles are flexible and open to all, no experience needed.

How can you get involved?

• River Tester to help with regular testing for pollutants & e.coli

• Lab volunteer preparing samples and reading results (Friday/Saturday mornings)

• Fundraiser to help us identify new funding opportunities so we can expand our monitoring

If you want to build skills, meet like‑minded people, and make a real difference for your local river, we’d love to have you.

Join the team to help reduce food waste by redistributing surplus food from grocery stores back into the community.

How can you get involved?

• Food collector from local grocery stores. Morning and evening shifts available, multiple days of the week

• Inside team to help weigh, display and engage with clients. Morning and afternoon shifts available

• Lifters! Some of the crates are heavy and we could use a strong hand or two during the morning shift

This is a fun, face paced project that involves direct engagement with the community.

Our hugely successful Home Energy Advice Team has supported 3000 households across Surrey to cut energy bills and carbon emissions. You get free training - and you get paid £30 per survey completed! 

Why become an Energy Champion?

• Get trained for free, whether you want a bit of pocket money or a career change into energy - we've even paid for some Energy Champions to become Domestic Energy Assessors

• Help your community to reduce energy bills and keep their homes healthy and free of damp & mould

• Deliver real world impact, help secure retrofit grants, and become part of our great HEAT community 

• Support the 68% of Surrey residents who want ambitous action on climate change to reduce their home's emissions

• Energy Champions are paid per survey, and therefore are contractors rather than volunteers

Join our friendly volunteer team helping Guildford share more and waste less! Whether you're a tech whizz, a people person, or just love getting things organised – there's a role for you.

Here’s how you can get involved:

• Keep our collection in great shape – help test and check items, update records, or flag things that need repair

• Support behind the scenes – add new items to our system, help manage member accounts, or tackle the occasional tech hiccup

• Be a friendly face – answer member queries, run the occasional drop-in stall, or gather feedback to help us improve

You’ll get support from a lovely team, gain hands-on experience, and help grow a project that’s already saved locals thousands in borrowing costs!

Volunteer for one of ZERO's many other projects that help residents consider their environmental impact, health and emissions through fun fun and engaging. You’ll be spending time coming up with engaging ways to inform the public or your project topic and showing them ways they too can get involved. Our projects include:

• Sustainable Business Network

• Rosamund Community Garden

• Sustainable Fashion

• Active Travel

• Baby Clothes Library

• Rooted Resilience

Help us by being a behind-the-scenes warrior. Volunteer your time by contributing to one the charity's most vital roles. These admin tasks can be mostly done from home at times that are convenient to you:

• Marketing

• Finance

• Fundraising

• Blog writing

• Responding to queries