Found 26 volunteering opportunities in Australia

Accountant or lawyer with grant writing experience and familiar with Companies Limited by Guarantee requirements is required by a charity start-up. This exciting new project offers an excellent opportunity for advancement and exposure to a variety of Government departments and community and service delivery organisations.

Do you have a landline and live in NSW? Empathetic volunteer with good listening skills required for telephone support. Take calls from home on a National helpline.

Ready to share your business knowledge with people living with disability in Ipswich or the Gold Coast? Carers Queensland’s Be Your Own Boss – Microbusiness Program will empower, educate and support people with disability to create or grow their own microbusiness. We are looking for people with business knowledge to join the program in Ipswich or Gold Coast regions who are able to deliver a one-to-two hour workshop for people with disability who are looking to start or grow a microbusiness.

Blind Sports & Recreation Victoria is currently seeking a friendly volunteer to accompany a lady who is blind living in St Albans on fortnightly walks in her local area. You need to be up-to-date with your Covid-19 vaccinations to apply and enjoy both walking and chatting. A middle-aged female volunteer who speaks Arabic would be the ideal candidate.

Empower Autism are looking for people to join our team of volunteers with ‘lived’ experience to provide telephone, in person or web based support to their peers.

Looking for a qualified accountant to be our Board Treasurer. iDareU is a rapidly growing small NFP charity, going places, so you need to be able to commit to being a part of this journey. Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of people with a disability and their families? Do you have 15-20 hours per month to give? Bonus if you have a disability, am a family member of a person with a disability, or work ( or have worked) in the sector. Sounds like you? Please contact us!

As a volunteer on the Family Drug and Gambling Help, you will support people who are impacted by someone else’s drug, alcohol or gambling issues by offering information, referrals, and support over the telephone. You will have lived experience of a loved one with a substance use problems and/or gambling

We currently have an amazing Treasurer and are looking for another board member with financial experience and credentials to work along side our existing Treasurer. Kith and Kin is a local success story, started in Townsville, and very much Townsville focused. Kith and Kin has been helping both people with a disability and mental illness for over 40 years. Direct Support Services and making a difference is what we do. #EventVolunteering #1Hour #PostDisasterTsv #PostDisasterWest

Volunteering with Pathways information and referral service gives you the opportunity to assist some of our community's most vulnerable people with disability to link in with the help and advocacy they need at a time when they most need support, avoiding the need for them to navigate the community services sector on their own.

MUST BE A PARENT OF A CHILD WHO HAS OR HAD DRUG AND ALCOHOL ISSUES. Supporting and mentoring parents of children with drug and alcohol issues.

Providing peer support to parents of children with drug or alcohol issues.

The Health Promotion Volunteer will be responsible to provide harm reduction interventions, education, prevention information and assistance to clients and the community.

Bookkeeper (can work from home some of the time): require good communication skills, access to computer & internet, familiar with Xero.

Community Visitors visit Victorian accommodation facilities for people with disability or mental illness in their local area. They monitor and report on the adequacy of the services provided and, where possible, communicate with residents or patients to ensure they are being treated with dignity and respect. Community Visitors are Victorian Governor in Council appointees, are appointed for a three-year term, and have significant powers of entry and inspection.

Crossroads is a centre-based social engagement and capacity building program for people living with a disability and over 16 years of age. The program is operating on most Fridays of the year and during school holidays, except public holidays (Good Friday/GC Show Day). For more information about the program visit crossroads.nu

We are seeking an Education Workshops Coordinator to manage, coordinate and plan logistical, resourcing and reporting requirements for all our education workshops facilitated by Australian Anti Ice Campaign (AAIC). AAIC facilitates education workshops for schools, prisons, corporate and private organisations. AAIC are educating and raising awareness of the dangers associated with the drug ICE, which is currently a growing epidemic in our nation. (C)

The Family Drug Helpline provides information, support and referrals to people who have someone in their life using alcohol or other drugs. The helpline is staffed by volunteers and is based in Carnegie, Victoria. This is a peer support role, fulfilled by people who have personal experience of being impacted by someone’s substance use. This lived experience is the key selection criteria.

TransitCare is an innovative not-for-profit organisation dedicated to assisting our clients to remain active in the community and live independently in their own homes. We achieve this through the provision of shared pre-booked transport and social support programs for people with disabilities; and older members of our community. TransitCare require an Administration Assistant to assist with answering calls and arranging drivers to do pick ups and conduct basic office tasks. #Admin #YouthVo

Secretary of small charity which provides recreational and sporting activities (sailing and on-water) for persons with disability is required. Sailability World Inc. operates in numerous countries throughout the world, through activities at 350 local Sailability clubs. Sailability is a "not for profit", volunteer-based organisation which, through the activity of sailing, enriches the lives of people with any type of disability, the elderly, the financially and socially disadvantaged.

Do you have good financial skills and experience that have been used in business, education, the professions or in the community? Would you like to use those skills to make a difference to the lives of people with disabilities? Would you like to be part of a committee and contribute to good governance and (financial) management of the voluntary run RDA Centre in Glenorchy that has been operating for decades. We are looking for a dedicated person interested in taking on the Treasurer role.