Gordon Lodge are seeking a bus driver to take residents from the aged care facility out for a drive once a fortnight.
Melville Cares are seeking a driver and assistant for their Friendship Group based in the Melville area. . Times required 8.30am – 4pm approx.. Starting and finishing at the Mt Pleasant Bowling Club car park.
Bus Outing Volunteers are required to accompany residents at Joseph Cooke House on outings to recreational activities.
Volunteers drive the bus for resident outings including, shopping, scenic trips and other outings - some regular (weekly/fortnightly) and some one-off. Drivers with a Heavy Vehicle licence are particularly needed, although our smaller buses can be driven with a normal car licence. Our buses are housed at various sites (primarily Shelley), which may not be the site the specific outing is for. Bus driver shifts include picking up and dropping off the bus after the outing.
Volunteer visitors are required for residents at Joseph Cooke House in Shelley, a residential aged care facility catering residents of various backgrounds. Many of our residents have limited or no contact with family and friends, and a volunteer visitor can greatly reduce social isolation and increase quality of life. Volunteers are matched with a specific resident and then visit regularly (minimum fortnightly).
If you are outgoing and friendly, enjoy meeting people and having a chat then the Activity Centre could be the place for you. If you enjoy playing Bingo, we’d love to hear from you. If you can speak Italian that would be a bonus but it is not essential!
POOPS WA is an incorporated non-profit association staffed entirely by volunteers. Our volunteers are police-cleared and provide a range of services including home visits, dog walking and transport to/from vet clinics or boarding kennels. We cater specifically for people over 65 years of age – or palliative-care patients of any age – who have no relatives or friends willing or able to take responsibility for their pets in times of need.
This is a great opportunity to form a new friendships and improve the quality of life for residents of local aged care facilities.
Frank Prendergast House are seeking a Cantonese speaker who would like to converse with an elderly female resident.
Chung Wah Community and Aged Care (CAC) is a group under the umbrella of the Chung Wah Association. CAC’s goal is to provide care for the aged and disabled community, particularly non-English speakers, in Western Australia.
Kyneton Community House offers lunch for the community on Wednesdays during school terms, and are seeking volunteers to help with cooking, and handing out take-away meals from the Kyneton Community House location. We're looking for motivated people committed to supporting the community. Pre-COVID-19, we operated sit-down lunches from the Kyneton Mechanics Institute a during 'better times', we are hopeful we will once again be able to offer this service. But for now, it is take-away only.
Are you interested in helping reduce depression, anxiety and loneliness in older people living in residential aged care? If so, we invite you to become a befriender for an older adult in our BEFRIENDAS research project!
Seeking volunteers who are enthusiastic and passionate about helping others to assist our Social Support team on a once a week basis either with bus outings to a variety of interesting places around Melbourne, or to help in our Lifestyle Day Centre with a range of activities from exercises, arts & crafts, trivia & brain games to providing or attending presentations on topics of interest and hosting in-house movie days.
Do you enjoy talking and socialising? We're looking for friendly people to visit frail elderly people in the home or within residential aged care homes. The individuals are socially isolated and of Greek background living within the community and would love to have a cup of tea or chat.
We are looking for volunteers to operate our kiosk. You will be required to make coffees from our coffee machine and serve biscuits, sell goods from a kiosk cupboard and clean up afterwards.