• Wesburn Victoria
• Category: Environment & Conservation
• Types of work: Food Preparation & Service, Fundraising & Events, Garden Maintenance

ECOSS thrives on the wonderful input from our Volunteers. It would be very difficult for ECOSS to develop and progress the way we do without our Volunteers. From working in the nursery and in our gardens. including the Community Garden, helping with our projects and events to helping in the office, our volunteers give a large amount of time. We value your skills and would love to create opportunities that interest you. We like to provide co-learning opportunities for skill sharing.

• Wesburn Victoria
• Category: Environment & Conservation
• Types of work: Arts, Craft & Photography, Garden Maintenance, Sport & Physical Activity, Trades & Maintenance

ECOSS welcomes corporate groups of all ages and abilities to come and discover the riches of ECOSS and enjoy facilitated team building and skill building sessions and our unique Wellbeing Program. Come and be inspired by the beautiful grounds while learning about sustainability and simple practical ways you can reduce your ecological footprint and help us with the many tasks needed such as Bed preparation, Composting, Weeding, Mulching and Pruning.

• Warburton Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Retail & Sales, Tour Guides, Information & Heritage

Come share your love of the Upper Yarra Valley with visitors and locals alike. Volunteers at the Warburton Waterwheel provide information about local and nearby attractions, serve as cashier for the handmade gift shop stocked with beautiful locally made items, and direct patrons to our gallery exhibiting local artists and artisans.

• Mount Evelyn 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.

• Gladysdale Victoria
• Category: Animal Welfare
• Types of work: Working with Animals

Forever Friends Animal Rescue (FFAR) is seeking passionate and dedicated Animal Volunteers to join its Rehabilitation Sanctuary in the Yarra Ranges, to spend time with its rescued dogs/cats and/or farm animals on a regular basis.

• Lilydale VIC, Monbulk VIC, Tecoma VIC, Yarra Junction VIC
• Category: Young People
• Types of work: Driving & Transportation, Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

Become a Yarra Ranges TAC L2P Program volunteer mentor and help a young person who doesn't have access to get the hours they need for their licence. Volunteer around your own schedule!

• 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.

• Blackburn VIC, Camberwell VIC, Croydon VIC, Kew VIC, Oakleigh VIC, Rowville VIC, Warrandyte VIC, Yarra Junction VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support

Join the Cloud Nine team and help some of the most vulnerable people in our community shine! It can be very hard for people living with terminal illness to take care of the little things we all take for granted: like finding time and feeling well enough to get a haircut. Something as simple as looking well-groomed can make people in this situation feel more like their 'normal' self, and contribute to a sense of wellbeing and reduction in anxiety.

• Doncaster VIC, Glen Waverley VIC, Hawthorn VIC, Mitcham VIC, Ringwood VIC, Rowville VIC, Warburton VIC, Yarra Glen VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Translating & Interpreting

If you’ve ever considered Volunteering, EPC might be the place for you. We are needing volunteers who speak Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek to help translate for our volunteers who are working on a biography with a client and English is not their first language. Volunteering at EPC provides opportunities to enhance leadership skills, network with others, be active in your local community and change the day of somebody living with a terminal or life-limiting illness.

• Chirnside Park VIC, Ferntree Gully VIC, Glen Waverley VIC, Oakleigh VIC, Rowville VIC, Warburton VIC, Warrandyte VIC, Yarra Glen VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Our community palliative care volunteers bring normality and a piece of the community into the homes of people living with terminal illness in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, who might be isolated, or just want to chat about something other than health for a while. They are there for respite, companionship, sharing a hobby or meeting out for coffee.

• Croydon VIC, Ferntree Gully VIC, Lilydale VIC, Oakleigh VIC, Rowville VIC, Warburton VIC, Warrandyte VIC, Wonga Park VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Library Services, Marketing, Media & Communications, Writing & Editing

Join Eastern Palliative Care's award-winning volunteer biography team! We are looking for people with typing & editing skills to make a real community impact: helping people who are enduring serious life-limiting illness, to tell their story. Biography volunteers offer the space to reflect on life, and a means to leave tributes or special messages for family. We have helped over 1,700 people in this way and our volunteers tell us they get far more from this work than they give.

• Belgrave VIC, Ferny Creek VIC, Kallista VIC, Lilydale VIC, Macclesfield VIC, Monbulk VIC, Mount Evelyn VIC, The Patch VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Lonely gentleman in Monbulk looking for a friendship volunteer. Would love a cuppa and someone to talk to. If you have an hour a fortnight to spare and would like to give back to the community then we have the perfect opportunity.

• Lilydale Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Food Preparation & Service

Join the sizzle team once a month on a Saturday to do a sausage sizzle morning or afternoon shift. Help to raise funds for the WFWP Australia Global Development & Aid Projects within the Pacific Islands.

• Mooroolbark Victoria
• Category: Education & Training
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Marketing, Media & Communications

The Red Nose Treasured Babies Program supports families following the death of a baby by providing beautiful handmade items of clothing for parents to dress their baby in, no matter the gestation. The program is run by volunteers, with support from Red Nose staff. The Treasured Babies Administrator will provide administrative support to the program by liaising with other volunteers, Red Nose staff members, hospitals and other key stakeholders.

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

Visit a socially isolated elderly man living in an aged care home in Healesville. Resident is Scottish and was a missionary in Africa and Hong Kong. He is legally blind but loves to get out and about. He enjoys gospel music and heading outside the facility for a coffee. Enjoy a cup of tea together, talk about family or go for short walk.