• Knox City Centre Victoria
• Category: Human Rights
• Types of work: Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy

Would you like to make a difference in the lives of people in your own community and also hold a prominent volunteer role? Become a Community Visitor with the Office of the Public Advocate. Community Visitors are the eyes and ears of the community and perform an important role of upholding the human rights of people with a cognitive disability and/or mental illness who are living in supported care.

• Knox City Centre Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Retail & Sales

Interested in volunteering at your local op shop? Come join the team at BSL Knox Ozone! We’re recruiting volunteers from all backgrounds and levels of experience. Whether you’re new to retail or a seasoned professional, we’d love to hear from you. Our volunteers cover a wide range of duties from sorting donations to creating vibrant displays, supporting back of house operations and assisting customers. Come get involved in your local community and join our friendly team today!

• Knox City Centre Victoria
• Category: Family Services
• Types of work: Childcare

The role of a playgroup volunteer is to support the leader who runs the group. It involves set up, pack up, helping to run free play, mat time, arts and craft, snack and outdoor play. It’s an opportunity to support families in the community who have young children and to encourage them to be meaningfully engaged in activities that help with their development.

• Knox City Centre Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Cafe Club is a fabulous fun group of older folk who get together at various cafes around Knox and surrounding areas for morning tea and a chin wag each Wednesday.

• Knox City Centre Victoria / Remote Friendly
• Category: Education & Training
• Types of work: Education & Training

The Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) is a free service to help eligible migrants and humanitarian entrants with low English levels to improve their English language skills and settle into Australia. Are you able volunteer in either a online or face to face capacity in this flexible position to assist a newly arrived refugee or migrant, and help them to learn English and to settle into Australian life? Free training and support are provided.

• Knox City Centre Victoria
• Category: Education & Training

Are you over 21 years of age, can make a commitment of at least one hour a week, hold a full drivers licence and want to help young people? Volunteer Mentors need to register their interest in the program, attend an interview, and complete the mandatory background checks. Mentors will be provided with comprehensive training from VicRoads that will prepare them for their role as a supervising driver.

• Ferntree Gully VIC, Knox City Centre VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Education & Training

The community visitors scheme role involves visiting an older person on a regular basis to help alleviate loneliness and isolation. People who speak a second language, even if they have low English speaking skills, are welcome. Travel reimbursement is available.

• Croydon VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Knox City Centre VIC
• Category: Education & Training
• Types of work: Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

Swinburne University is a world ranked university leading the way in innovation, industry engagement and social inclusion. Our eduction, high quality research and industry partnerships create positive change for students, staff and the community

• Bayswater VIC, Ferntree Gully VIC, Knox City Centre VIC, Scoresby VIC, Wantirna VIC, Wantirna South VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Fundraising & Events, Garden Maintenance, Governance, Boards & Committees

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• Croydon VIC, Healesville VIC, Kew VIC, Knox City Centre VIC, Mulgrave VIC, Vermont South VIC, Warburton VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Visit a socially or culturally isolated resident in an aged care facility or in their own home in the Eastern region of Victoria. From Monash to Yarra Valley. We have many lonely people in need of a friendly, empathetic and caring volunteer visitor. Want to try something different in 2024? Becoming a volunteer visitor can change someone's life. A very rewarding program which fosters friendships between lonely elderly people and volunteers.

• Bayswater Victoria
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Seniors & Aged Care

" Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves". James M. Barrie For as little as 1 hour per fortnight you can enrich the life of an older adult experiencing isolation. Volunteer with us and provide friendship and companionship under the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS). *Please note that you need to be based in either Eastern or Southern Metro Melbourne to participate.

• Ashburton Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications

Are you looking to get involved by volunteering with a local community focused not-for-profit? Join a friendly and welcoming team made of volunteers and members at this Toy Library. We are a registered charity committed to supporting children’s development through play located close to Ashburton Village. We are looking for a Parent Talk Presenter who can speak to new parents and families about the benefits of joining a toy library.

• Burwood East Victoria
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support

Inclusion Melbourne believes that everyone within our community should be able to live in an inclusive community, supported by people who genuinely care for them, and have equal opportunity to participate in community life. Through our volunteer programs, we provide social support and friendship to people with a cognitive disability and older Australians who are at risk of loneliness and social isolation.

• Mount Waverley Victoria / Remote Friendly
• Category: Disability Services
• Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Fundraising & Events, Governance, Boards & Committees, Marketing, Media & Communications

Limbs 4 Life Incorporated is seeking to appoint a volunteer for our Board of Management. We are a dynamic non-profit organisation; established to provide information, support and access to resources for people affected by limb loss. Limbs 4 Life advocate for people with limb loss and their carers to state and federal government departments.

• Glen Waverley Victoria
• Category: Animal Welfare
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care, Working with Animals

We are looking for an experienced new volunteer to participate in the LinkPETS pet program,. If you love Golden Retrievers and would like to meet regularly with an elderly person for chat, please read on!