This study examines the whether there is an association between engaging in environmental volunteering activities and pro-environmental behavioural change. Utilising self-reported surveys, the study explores the potential impact that environmental volunteering has on people's pro-environmental behaviour over time, using The Conservation Volunteers' two volunteering programmes, Green Gyms and Action Teams, as a comparative case study. Our findings show a positive association between environmental volunteering activities with a person's self-reported pro-environmental behaviours over time. Further, volunteers presented improved impact across almost all of the eight pro-environmental behaviours measured, with differences observed between the two volunteering programmes as well as socio-demographic groupings.

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