• Bundamba QLD, Inala QLD
• Category: Migrant Services
• Types of work: Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

* Want to make a positive impact in the life of a migrant or refugee? * Would you like to help someone new to Australia learn English? * Do you have an hour free each week to volunteer over the next twelve months? Learning English is the most important factor in helping new migrants and refugees settle in Australia. You could make a difference to someone by volunteering from one hour a week to help tutor English to Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) students.

• Brisbane City QLD, Ipswich QLD, Queensland
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Sport & Physical Activity, Trades & Maintenance

Habitat for Humanity Australia requires volunteers for repair and maintenance work on crisis accommodation. The program benefits disadvantaged and socially isolated members of the community. There is a range of volunteer opportunities both in and around Brisbane and in regional centres. No skills are required! Teams are mobilised to conduct landscaping, painting and minor repairs to homes and crisis accommodation. For volunteering opportunities in QLD, please click on the button below.

• East Ipswich QLD, Moores Pocket QLD, North Booval QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

As a community visitor your support will change lives and in the process change your life. You will make friends and build valuable relationships. Make a difference today and add purpose to your life while brightening someone’s day and making sure they feel connected with their local community. As a community visitor you will be matched with an older person based on your location, gender and interests. Regular visits are scheduled either in an aged care facility or visiting in the client’s home

• Blacksoil QLD, Bundamba QLD, Flinders View QLD, Ipswich QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Arts, Craft & Photography, Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care

Miss having a yarn with your grandparents? Learn from those wiser, and volunteer to visit the young at heart and keep them connected to the communities they love. Befriend and spend quality time with a lonely senior in the local community. No doubt you’ll develop a soft spot for adorable seniors and be able to simultaneously brighten their day!

• Bundamba QLD, Ipswich QLD, Karana Downs QLD, Redbank Plains QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care

Comlink Australia is looking for volunteers to provide one-on-one friendship and connection to senior clients who are at risk of loneliness and social isolation. Through forming genuine relationships, the lives of both participants will be enriched. Comlink Companions are matched with an elderly client based on shared interests, personality, background, preferences, and location.

• Beenleigh QLD, Coombabah QLD, Ipswich QLD, Willawong QLD
• Category: Animal Welfare
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Trades & Maintenance

Do you enjoy pottering around in the garden and being outdoors? As a not for profit organisation, we rely on the support of the community to help find our shelter animals forever homes. This rewarding volunteer role involves maintaining already established gardens including watering, weeding, mulching, hedge trimming, and may also include some small maintenance tasks, depending on the individual needs of the Rehoming Centre.

• Beenleigh QLD, Bracken Ridge QLD, Coombabah QLD, Ipswich QLD, Willawong QLD
• Category: Animal Welfare
• Types of work: Working with Animals

Are you looking for a rewarding volunteer position, assisting in the daily care of animals looking for their forever homes?

• Booval QLD, Churchill QLD, Ipswich QLD, Raceview QLD, Tivoli QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

MiCare are looking for volunteers (M/F) that can share a smile and companionship during fortnightly friendly visits to isolated and lonely elderly people around Ipswich. Volunteering brings fun and fulfilment to your life and makes a huge difference to those in the community seeking companionship.

• Booval QLD, Brassall QLD, Ipswich QLD, Leichhardt QLD, Redbank QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

As a community visitor your support will change lives and in the process change your life. You will make friends and build valuable relationships. Make a difference today and add purpose to your life while brightening someone’s day and making sure they feel connected with their local community. As a community visitor you will be matched with an older person based on your location, gender and interests. Regular visits are scheduled either in an aged care facility or visiting in the client’s home

• Beenleigh QLD, Brisbane City QLD, Cairns City QLD, Ipswich QLD, Southport QLD
• Category: Community Services

Court Networker volunteers, known as Networkers, support people accessing and navigating the domestic and family violence court systems. They empower and increase the confidence of court users in managing the requirements of the courts. Our volunteers provide active, empathetic and non-judgmental support, build court user confidence, assist court users to navigate their court needs and requirements, promote understanding of legal processes and provide non-legal information and support.

• East Toowoomba QLD, Newtown QLD, North Toowoomba QLD, Rockville QLD, Toowoomba QLD
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

As a community visitor your support will change lives and in the process change your life. You will make friends and build valuable relationships. Make a difference today and add purpose to your life while brightening someone’s day and making sure they feel connected with their community. As a community visitor you will be matched with an older person based on your location, gender and interests. Regular visits are scheduled either in an aged care facility or visiting in the client’s home.

• Churchill QLD, Coalfalls QLD, Eastern Heights QLD, Ipswich QLD, Leichhardt QLD, Newtown QLD
• Category: Mentoring & Advocacy
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Education & Training, Fundraising & Events, Tutoring & Coaching

Inspiring Brighter Futures Foundation is a not for profit that relies on volunteer mentors to support our wellbeing mentoring program and inspire the lives of those within our community.

• Beenleigh QLD, Goodna QLD, Ipswich QLD, Logan Central QLD, Logan City Dc QLD, Loganlea QLD, Woodridge QLD
• Category: Homeless
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Mediation & Advocacy

4 Voices require outreach volunteers to connect with people who are digitally and socially isolated. You will be helping people to connect through regular conversations, digital skills, setting up emails, MyGov accounts, possibly setting up their resumes, looking for work etc. You will also connect people with other services like Centrelink, food services, housing, healthcare and counselling.

• Brisbane City QLD, Goodna QLD, Ipswich QLD, Logan Central QLD, Loganlea QLD, South Brisbane QLD, Wynnum QLD
• Category: Homeless
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Mediation & Advocacy

4 Voices are looking for committed volunteers for the 4 Voices outreach service to connect with people who are digitally and socially isolated. You will be helping people to connect through regular conversations, digital skills, setting up emails, MyGov accounts, help them with online shopping, possibly setting up their resumes, looking for work etc. You will also connect people with other services like Centrelink, food services, housing, healthcare and counselling.

• Esk QLD, Fernvale QLD, Gatton QLD, Ipswich QLD, Laidley QLD, Lockyer QLD, Springfield QLD
• Category: Young People
• Types of work: Childcare, Companionship & Social Support, Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

What could you do with just one hour each week? By becoming a Pyjama Angel, you will experience personal growth and profound fulfilment as you help a young person in foster care reach their full potential. Through spending one-on-one time together, you will become a catalyst for positive change in their life and the wider community, creating a brighter future for everyone involved. Join us today and discover the immense joy of making a lasting difference, one hour at a time.