Found 20 volunteering opportunities in Melbourne City

Would you like to improve your own wellbeing while helping someone else? Become a volunteer with the Active LiFE balance program and assist people to improve their balance & to gain confidence to be more independent!

YPRL is seeking a new **Reading Dogs team** to join Thomastown Library. Our Reading Dogs program promotes children’s literacy by having children read aloud to dogs at the library. Our mission is to make reading fun and enjoyable for children so that they become confident and lifelong readers. Reading Dogs are accredited companion animals who volunteer with their owner/handler as a team by facilitating reading sessions. If your dog is calm, patient, and loveable, get in touch with us today!

Fair Trade & Gift Shop have a very large selection of books, both in the shop and online. We need volunteers who can match the books with an excel spread sheet, so we know what we have. This is a short-term volunteer assignment that can be done with friends! Candidates with a passion for reading English books and strong reading and writing skills in English are encouraged to apply.

The Toy Library needs someone to volunteer on a Friday 2.30 - 5pm The job is helping to sort, check and count toys and put them away on their shelves. The applicant needs to be physically able, they need to have good concentration and attention to detail. We need someone who is available every Friday.

We need volunteers to drive children books at our office and warehouse, the books are needed for our monthly donation, to refill pop-up libraries in some regions of Melbourne. Our organisation aims to promote the importance of reading from early years and create a love and habit or reading.

Are you looking for a simple way to give back to the community? We are a small community toy library, helping local families and children have fun and learn through play with quality toys at an affordable membership rate. We rely on volunteers to help with our open sessions, and we’re looking for a volunteer who loves being organised!

Seeking organised Book Wizards! Do you enjoy books? Do you love working with books and have a passion for volunteering? Are you book and computer systems orientated? Must be proactive, self-managed and reliable. In other words, an organised Book Worm to work in our book sales team, for a minimum of 1 day per week Wed - Saturday, researching, cataloguing, and photographing books. You will also need to be able to upload this information onto our website.

Back2bikes is a social enterprise that provides bike training services and bike recycling for the community. Run by volunteers and supported by Port Phillip Council, we accept bike donations and sell recycled bikes as affordable transport. We provide - training for volunteers - bike maintaining courses - affordable bike servicing - bikes for people with special needs - bikes for people in need. i.e. asylum seekers, refugees, victims of domestic violence

Kingston Toy Library is a wholly member owned toy library, serving the local community with over 2000 toys. We operate just like a book library but with toys. Volunteering with us will give you the opportunity to experience how a library service operates as you assist with all aspects of library operations. You will gain skills of value for the workplace, be a valued part of the team, while also having the experience of a community run service.

Every day of the year, Sacred Heart Mission assists hundreds of people who are experiencing homelessness or disadvantage to find shelter, food, care and support. Through our wide-ranging homelessness services, research and innovation we strongly advocate for an inclusive, fair and compassionate community where people can overcome disadvantage and trauma.

Every day of the year, Sacred Heart Mission assists hundreds of people who are experiencing homelessness or disadvantage to find shelter, food, care and support. Through our wide-ranging homelessness services, research and innovation we strongly advocate for an inclusive, fair and compassionate community where people can overcome disadvantage and trauma.

Watsonia Heights Primary School is seeking volunteers who can assist the school's Librarian with all aspects of the day to day running of the library. You will have a keen interest in children’s literature and be available during the school term in school hours. Experience with library systems and organisation such as cataloguing is desired but not essential.

Seeking lovers of books or organising wizards to volunteer in a primary school library for a minimum of few hours per week. Schools are often overburdened and under resourced. They rely heavily on the generosity of their local community members so that the children attending have a safe and congenial learning environment. As the saying goes "It takes a village to raise a child", be part of your village.

We seek volunteers for our Community Engagement Program, which operates at Malahang Reserve in West Heidelberg.

The Toy Library is a resource for families in the local community that provides educational equipment and toys for children. The aim of the library is to support families in offering families high quality equipment that encourages play in the home without the cost of purchasing toys themselves. Families are able to borrow up to ten toys at a time from a large range including games, puzzles, dress ups, bikes and many other items.

The role of Volunteer Hydrotherapy Pool Sitter is to ensure clients are safe and comply with pool rules, as well as to undertake administration tasks such as completing attendance lists and collecting money. This ensures sessions are conducted efficiently and are cost effective for clients.

Help connect Lisa, a young mum, with her local community. If you're resourceful, a good communicator and passionate about reducing social isolation in the community, this role may suit you! Share your understanding of local services, and your skills in connecting with others, with someone who faces challenges doing the same.

The volunteer tutor provides educational support after school hours to students enrolled in local schools in the City of Whittlesea.

This position is appointed by the Board to fill a casual vacancy for a three year term, with the ability to seek reappointment for up to nine years. The role is responsible for fulfilling the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee’s terms of reference, primarily to assist the Board in maintaining a sound corporate governance framework and undertaking its fiduciary duties and responsibilities. The role leads a Committee of a minimum of three members.

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.