Found 21 volunteering opportunities in Australia

As a Volunteer for the Santa Paws Charity Event, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the success of the event. This is a great opportunity to make a positive impact in your community and help raise awareness about animal welfare.

As a Volunteer Activity and Entertainment Coordinator for the annual Santa Paws Event, you will play a crucial role in organising and managing various activities aimed at raising funds and awareness for our cause. You will be responsible for planning and executing engaging and impactful activities that attract participants and donors while ensuring a positive experience for both volunteers and attendees. This role requires creativity, organisation, a passion for dogs and charitable work.

Help facilitate play, activities and distraction for patients, siblings and visitors at the Queensland Children’s Hospital. Join our volunteer team to provide moments of happiness and social connection in the hospital environment.

Volunteers with the Supported Playgroup offer their time, enthusiasm and encouragement to support the children and families attending the playgroup. They assist with set up, morning tea and activities.

RDA is a voluntary organisation providing equine-assisted activities for people with disabilities to develop and enhance abilities through programs such as riding, dressage and carriage driving. Horses provide vital mental and physical stimulation for our disabled participants, improving their confidence, increasing their autonomy and delivering immeasurable amounts of pleasure. There are many and varied opportunities for volunteers at our centre.

Do you love being part of an organisation making a difference to people doing it tough? Your help will make the difference for pensioners and their pets - help keep these best friends together by joining the Pet Medical Crisis team. We are looking for volunteer social workers to help vulnerable pensioners and their pets in crisis.

The Inala Multicultural Festival is a FREE one-day-only event, available to families in our local community and surrounding areas. It combines multicultural performances, rides, great food and diverse stalls. We are looking for a team of amazing volunteers to assist with the set-up/down and running of this exciting event in the Inala community! We would love for you to be part of the event.

The Department for Child Protection Volunteer Driver would transport children and young people to and from family contact, appointments and may also assist with learner driver training. Some out of hours, long distance and overnight travel may be required.

The Social Connection Volunteer will support people who feel isolated in building social connections within the local community.

You will be matched with families and tasks based on your experience, skills and interests and the family’s needs. We would like you to commit for 12 months and to be flexible when volunteering. The support you are expected to give will vary from family to family and may change during your time with us. We will provide you with adequate training and supervision.

As a volunteer Resolution Officer, you will be responsible for receiving, assessing, investigating and responding to complaints or concerns from members of Fauna Rescue. Reporting to the Chairperson, this role will facilitate our goal of best practice wildlife care and support our volunteers with any matters that may arise.

Our Pathfinders are RMHC WA advocates across King Edward Memorial Hospital. They support patients and visitors to the hospital and provide assistance to hospital staff, clinics and wards.

Our Family Ambassadors Nedlands are the first point of call for anyone entering our Monash Avenue based home.

Located in our Ronald McDonald Family Room at Perth Children's Hospital, our Froomies provide support for families using this facility.

Our Dinner Squad provide assistance to our Nedlands House during the busy dinner time period.

The volunteers assist riders with leading horses or walking along side riders/horses during their classes. All classes are designed and controlled by our qualified coach. Full training and inductions are provided to all volunteers. #Disability #Animals #YouthVol#Sport #EventVolunteering #1Hour #horses

Come along to our Play and Learn Playgroup at Moorditj Kulungar Kwinana. This session provides learning through play opportunities and a safe space for children and families to connect. The Playgroup is for children aged 0 – 4 years led by our Aboriginal Resource Worker, we provide opportunities for Aboriginal families who visit us to learn about the first 3 years of a child’s life and prepare them for school.

Happy Paws Happy Hearts is looking for driven, caring and capable volunteers to join our team of passionate change-makers at our new Mackay campus. Get the best of both worlds by spending time with shelter animals and making our program participants smile!

Peel Group Riding for the Disabled trading as Peel Horse Power are a not-for-profit organisation, who offer lessons to clients with disabilities. Volunteers can always find a job that suits them, working with horses / clients / paperwork / cleaning / jobs around the farm. We are always in need of bookkeepers, grant writers and so many more jobs. All just 5 minutes from suburbia.

We have a large suite of programs to offer the public. We are expanding into the City of Knox from Break 40 Cafe at 40/1880 Ferntree Gully Rd. We need local volunteers to assist us to recruit participants to our programs and to help cement these programs as regular fixtures for the local community. These are all groups with a therapeutic angle (eg men's & women's support groups, artistic expression opportunity groups like open mic nights, kids breakfast club or after-school safe spaces.