Voi opens its warehouse to give young people job skills taking scooters apart

Sep 9, 2024

Trainees from the Steps to Work pogramme with the Voi team at Voi's Liverpool warehouse. Credit: Voi

Young adults were given the chance to gain some hands-on work experience with Liverpool’s rental e-scooter and e-bike operator, Voi.

Trainees from the Steps to Work programme at Strawberry Field, run by the Salvation Army, spent a morning at Voi’s warehouse in Liverpool, learning how to take apart decommissioned e-scooters and sort the parts for recycling.

Watch the video from the event here.

The Steps to Work programme empowers young adults aged 18-25 with learning difficulties, who are neurodivergent or have barriers to employment into paid work. 

Harry Foskin, Voi UK public policy manager, said: “Our team in Liverpool enjoyed sharing their expertise with the Steps to Work trainees, who quickly got stuck into the tasks they had been set to do.

“It was a great opportunity for Voi to do something more for Liverpool than simply providing our e-scooter and e-bike service.

“We are a company with community at our heart, so we were thrilled to be able to give young people in the city a helping hand with gaining employability skills. We’re looking forward to working further with other Step to Work trainees in the future.”

Chris Vernon, employment development co-ordinator, at Strawberry Field, said: “It’s a massive opportunity to come to an amazing place like Voi to get some skills and the trainees to get some hand-on experience working with the team.”

Voi started operating in Liverpool in October 2020. Since then more than 300,000 people have signed up to ride the company’s coral-coloured rental e-scooters and e-bikes, taking more than 6 million rides in total.

According to Voi’s externally-validated carbon calculator, trips on the company’s e-scooters and e-bikes in Liverpool have replaced an estimated 2.6 million short car journeys. 

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For further information, please contact: 

Juliette Maxam, Senior PR manager, Voi UK, Ireland and Belgium

[email protected]

About Voi 

Founded in 2018, Voi is a Swedish micromobility company offering e-scooter and e-bike sharing in partnership with towns, cities and local communities. We believe e-scooters can play a central role in changing how people move in our towns and cities in the future. We want to ensure that the micromobility transformation happens the right way - through real innovative technology, open and transparent dialogue with towns, cities and governments and by adapting our products to local needs. Voi’s holistic Environmental Action Plan tackles emissions and promotes renewable energy use and circularity along its supply chain. 

Voi operates in over 100 towns and cities across 12 countries. It is headquartered in Stockholm and employs 1,000 people. To date, Voi boasts more than seven million riders and has served more than 150+ million rides.