Found 21 volunteering opportunities in Australia

It’s all here, tourism, history, holiday programs and events! Opportunities exist for volunteers in multiple roles: heritage guides, customer service, visitor information assistants, and village “stollers” in heritage costume. If you enjoy a social chat, promoting our city, maybe a bit of local history or helping out in a school holiday program – contact us to find out more.

Join an enthusiastic team of volunteers to promote and deliver two unique tours of Navy’s historic Garden Island Dockyard rarely seen by the public.

Do you like going to see live music? Do you enjoy going to sporting events? Do you like the arts, going to the theatre, cinema or restaurants? Do you have a passion for equal rights? Do you want to enable a person with a learning disability and/or autism to go to events and get out more? Then you could make a perfect Gig Buddy!

The National Trust is seeking an active and friendly people to join our volunteer team as our bookkeeper at historic Labassa Mansion in Caulfield. Are you good with numbers and finance? Now is your chance to join our passionate team of volunteers.

Do you love history? The local history section of Kwinana Public Library are asking for expressions of interest from volunteers to assist the local History Librarian to research local history topics. Virtual, it would be great if the volunteer resides in the locality of Kwinana, Cockburn, Rockingham areas so regular face to face catch ups can occur.

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) are seeking a Exhibition Room Attendants to assist us with various exhibitions throughout 2024 at Como House and Gardens. An exciting design exhibition is being held in the historic home, Tablescaping which will explore the art of table service and design. Followed by NTAV annual Christmas at Como installation later in the year. Now is your chance to join our passionate team of volunteers and enjoy being part of museum operations and exhibits.

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) are seeking a Volunteers to assist in costume creation. Are you handy with a needle and thread? We are looking for volunteers to assist with making period outfits for our education facilitators. Now is your chance to join our passionate team of volunteers.

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) are seeking a Volunteers to assist in or BigCcat Project within our Collections Team. The Big Ccat Project is an online community cataloguing program designed to harness community expertise and skillsets, contribute to a sense of belonging and well-being in volunteers, and to enable community access to collections via cataloguing and publishing online. Now is your chance to join our passionate team of volunteers.

We are looking to set up tours that specifically cater to blind, vision impaired, hard of hearing, deaf and neurodiverse visitors to the Bradman Museum and Oval. If you have experience in Auslan delivery, the delivery of multi-sensory or audio museum/art/cultural experiences, or improving visitor experiences for neurodiverse folks, and you would be interested in contributing to the design and/or delivery of these tours and supporting resources, please get in touch.

Volunteers assist our customers to participate in programs, and add value to the services that we offer. As a volunteer, you don’t need any specific qualifications or experience, just a genuine interest to empower people with disabilities and a willingness to share your skills. Volunteers are people just like you!

Do you love gardening? Do you want to get out in the sunshine (weather debatable in Melbourne) and spend some time working with your hands? We need gardeners/landscapers or just people who enjoy being out in the garden that are willing to come and volunteer their time and enthusiasm with our participants. Days needed for participation are Friday morning or afternoon.

The Historical Society members are the Volunteer custodians and Guides of the Azelia Ley Homestead Museum and Wagonhouse museum, on roster for Sunday opening 1.30-4.30pm, and supervising the Museums for booked tours and school excursions, as they occur (Mon-Wed).

Call out to all green thumbs? We would like you to come and join us!

Are you an imaginative, enthusiastic and effective communicator? The IMA is seeking Tour Guides to join the volunteer team and play a key role in connecting and inspiring our school and adult visitors.

🛩️ Join Us in Preserving Aviation History! 🛩️ Do you have a passion for aviation and a desire to contribute to the preservation of history? The Far North Queensland Aviation Museum invites you to become a valued volunteer and help develop Mareeba's premier community-based aviation museum.

If you are great with people and enjoy sharing information and customer service we want to hear from you!

We are excited to be expanding the Sir Donald Bradman research library collection with a donation of a significant personal collection in 2024. We are looking for someone to assist with the organisation and cataloguing of this new collection. We are also looking for assistance with the establishment of research library loan partnerships and processes within our broader library network and research librarian services on an ad-hoc basis.

We are embarking on the digitisation of a large historical collection of photographs into the museum collection. This will involve organising, scanning and saving photographs from the archives, and carefully returning to archives. Get in touch if you would like to have a rare glimpse into history and a hand in making these memorial snapshots accessible to an international audience. This could be an ongoing opportunity.

Do you have a love of trains? We are looking for versatile volunteers and have several different positions to fill: Driver / Guard / Signaller / Maintenance Crew and the Kiosk. In each of these positions you can also assist with roles such as customer service, public direction, ticket collection, signal operation, guard, maintenance crew etc. and eventually the elevation to 'Train Driver' for those who are interested.

We require a mature, experienced, business oriented and skilled grant writer and fundraiser to assist the museum with writing and submitting grant applications. Will also be required to source quotes, funding and grant opportunities and give advice and guidance to the committee.