A great opportunity to share your cycling experience by teaching children and adults the basics of cycling : initial overview, balance, pedaling skills, etc. The workshops are two hours long and take place in safe zones on weekends. In Côte-des-Neiges and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce bilingualism is an asset!

During the summer, the Vélorution Côte-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (VCDN) team travels from park to park, four days a week, to carry out free repairs on the bicycles of local residents.

To join the VCDN mechanical team, we ask interested people to participate in several mechanical sessions at the Atelier Vélorutionnaire – during Mechanical Fridays – in order to perfect their knowledge and develop expertise in bicycle mechanics.

Every Friday at the VSM workshop, from 10am to 4pm, volunteers repair and upgrade the bikes in the Cyclo Nord Sud fleet. During this time the team supports volunteers in developing their mechanical skills. So, no matter what your current knowledge, everyone is welcome to Mechanical Fridays. It is a stimulating way to learn bicycle mechanics or to improve your knowledge at one’s own rhythm!

To participate in Mechanical Fridays, volunteers must participate in a welcome and basic mechanics training, which takes place every first Friday of the month, from 5pm to 8pm. Once trained, volunteers can register to participate in one or more Mechanical Fridays.

In order to empower the population of Saint-Michel, the Atelier Vélorutionnaire (AVSM) allows its members to carry out repairs on their bicycles. Volunteers are present at each evening to support members with repairs to be done on their bikes.

A person interested in participating in the AVSM project will be invited to a welcome evening and training in basic mechanics. The welcome training and basic mechanics evenings take place every first Friday of the month, from 5pm to 8pm, at the Atelier, upon registration.

Launched in July 2019, the Vélorution Côte-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (VCDN) pilot project needs expert bicycle mechanics volunteers for mobile repair booths in neighbourhood parks.
If you are interested in a project, register as a volunteer for VCDN. The members of the coordination team will be able to assess your mechanical skills and will indicate the current needs based on your skills. You can also participate in Mechanical Friday (see above for details on Mechanical Friday) to develop your mechanical skills!

In the warehouse, volunteers are called upon to handle all kinds of bicycle parts. This is a good way to learn more about bicycle mechanics, including cutting up, which helps you understand how a bicycle is built. An opportunity that can interest both beginners and advanced cyclists.

Volunteers who want to work at the warehouse are invited to participate in Warehouse Thursday. From 10am to 4pm on Thursdays, the work team and volunteers work together to prepare containers and handle bicycles. That said, in the warehouse, the work is dictated by the arrival of bicycles: it is impossible to schedule tasks from one week to the next. This is what keeps volunteers on their toes from one week to the next!

Every Thursday, the coordination team works in the warehouse with the volunteers to support them in the work to be done. This makes it an ideal day to welcome new volunteers.

For all information about Warehouse Thursday, click here to access the Practical Guide to Warehouse Work.

For regular volunteers, it is possible to work independently in the warehouse during office hours, on Monday to Friday, from 10am to 4pm.

Unlike warehouse Thursdays, the coordination team does not necessarily work in the warehouse with volunteers during the week. For this reason, we ask volunteers who arrive on autonomous days to notify the team in advance.

Organizing a bike drive is one of the best ways for volunteer groups to get involved with Cyclo Nord-Sud in a concrete way, in addition to being a great challenge. If you are interested in organizing a collection, we invite you to visit the Organizing a Bike Drive page for more information.

At bike drives organized by volunteer groups, some members of the North-South Cyclo team can travel to the bike drive site to help the volunteer group receive bicycles and raise awareness. They are mainly held on weekends.

Without participating in the organization of the drive, volunteers who wish to participate can assist the team members. Tasks include compacting bicycles, placing equipment (tables, chairs, tents, etc.), talking to the public about issues related to our mission, completing unofficial tax receipts, loading and unloading the truck at the end of the day.

Before being sent to our international partners, containers must be loaded at our warehouse. Loading a container means filling it to the brim with bicycles – between 375 and 450 bicycles – and used parts. Always carried out in a friendly atmosphere, the coordination team and volunteers meet to carry out this great task from our warehouse in Saint-Michel.

Container loading mainly takes place on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays. We always provide meals and snacks to support everyone. If you are interested in a mandate, please let us know which day(s) you are generally available in the registration form.

Cyclo North-South participates in many events where it is important to properly communicate our mission, values and issues associated with our objectives. For people who like to communicate with the public and discuss social and environmental issues, awareness is for you!

Interested parties will receive the necessary documentation to immerse themselves in the world of North-South Cyclo. In this way, they will be able to familiarize themselves with our current projects, our social and ecological orientations, as well as the relevant vocabulary to use when dealing with the public.

If you are a cycling and camera enthusiast, you can help us to enhance our virtual and paper publications with pictures, by accompanying our team during the events in which we participate or organize.

It is also always possible for people who have suggestions to propose photo or video projects of our activities!

This work varies depending on the nature of the event, but it essentially consists of supporting the team in the preparation and hosting of the events we organize. Tasks could include setting up the room, running the bar, serving a meal, welcoming participants, cashier, etc.

For some projects, the communications team needs support with graphics. This work consists of creating visuals on software such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, on PC or MacOS, or formatting texts for publication. Please note, however, that we cannot provide you with a computer outside the office or a copy of these programs.

It is often necessary to update statistics, articles or entire pages of the website. The work is done on WordPress, and a good command of English is an asset. Volunteers who wish to work on the website can do so regularly or occasionally, depending on their availability.

As a charity, Cyclo benefits from the Google Ad Grants program, a monthly budget that increases the website’s visibility in Google searches. This work is a challenge with great potential that an interested volunteer could take on. It is preferable to have a good knowledge of how SEO works or to be skilled in research to undertake this project.

To English or Spanish, Cyclo Nord-Sud is full of documents to translate: official documents, web pages, bike stories, visuals, etc. The translation is done very well at home, as interested parties have access to the Internet and specific software.

We must regularly enter information from bicycle donors, in particular, into the database in order to issue tax receipts. This task must be performed at our offices to access the database and does not require any special prerequisites.

Every year, Cyclo Nord-Sud carries out a work to increase the loyalty of its links. The links that give money regularly are contacted to encourage them to renew their generosity. Essentially, volunteers who participate in the retention of links take the phone in the evenings during the week to discuss Cyclo North-South with the links.

Although the coordination team is resourceful, computer problems and updates never come at the right time. Do you have any computer skills? Let us know and we will contact you when necessary! We have a computer equipment of Mac, PC, laptops or desktop computers.

In addition to helping with Cyclo Nord-Sud’s regular bicycle handling and awareness activities in the Quebec City area, the committee has forged links over the years with organizations in the region to enhance the value of bicycles that do not find outlets with our international partners or in our local projects in Saint-Michel and Côte-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. For example, some volunteers in Quebec City repair and refurbish bicycles for distribution to local partners.

There is also a Funding component to further develop Cyclo Nord-Sud’s activities in the Quebec City region.

To get involved with Cyclo Nord-Sud in the Quebec City area, register using the form. We will contact you to put you in touch with the Quebec City team, who can specifically explain the needs of the moment.

To get involved with the Gatineau committee, register using the form below. We will put you in touch with Gatineau volunteers, who can directly explain their volunteer needs to you.

For any questions about EMAB or if you want to get involved with them, you can write to them here.

For a dozen volunteers, it is possible to load a container. All information on container loading here.

Do you want to involve the members of your work team in a solidarity project? It is possible to organize a collection. All the information here.

For a day with a variety of activities, we can provide you with our expertise in bicycle mechanics, introductory courses on bicycles, etc. If it is something that interests you, you can write to info@cyclonordsud.org and explain your project. A member of the team will answer you and explain the possibilities.