• Heidelberg Victoria
• Category: Education & Training
• Types of work: Education & Training, Marketing, Media & Communications, Tutoring & Coaching

Have you ever been moved after hearing someone tell you about their experience? If you have been: • injured or had a family member/friend injured or die • first on the scene at a serious road incident • a witness to a road incident • a driver involved in a serious road incident • an emergency service worker attending a road incident Your story could save a life.

• Heidelberg Victoria
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Tour Guides, Information & Heritage

Mercy Hospital for Women is a major public hospital and specialist referral centre with the medical, nursing midwifery and allied health expertise to provide complex care for obstetric, neonatal and gynaecological needs. The Volunteer Concierge will welcome patients to Level 3 and provide direction to various outpatient clinics and departments.

• Heidelberg Victoria
• Category: Human Rights
• Types of work: Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy

Would you like to make a difference in the lives of people in your own community and also hold a prominent volunteer role? Become a Community Visitor with the Office of the Public Advocate. Community Visitors are the eyes and ears of the community and perform an important role of upholding the human rights of people with a cognitive disability and/or mental illness.

• Heidelberg Victoria
• Category: Mental Health
• Types of work: Education & Training, Food Preparation & Service

Worthy Cause is a charity seeking volunteers to assist with kitchen operations. We bake and sell cookies, coffee and meals through our employment program that employs vulnerable and marginalised people.

• Heidelberg VIC, Thomastown VIC
• Category: Family Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Counselling & Help Line, Driving & Transportation

Do you want to make a real, practical difference by supporting people who are facing many challenges? Volunteering in this role will enable more families of Kids First to access our therapeutic services safely and affordably, and in a supportive and comfortable environment. Lots of training and support will be offered in this important NEW volunteer program!

• Heidelberg VIC, Preston VIC / Remote Friendly
• Category: Mental Health
• Types of work: Accounting & Finance, Disability Support, Fundraising & Events, Marketing, Media & Communications

Are you an expert of your craft with a heart for social impact? Do you love the idea of improving the lives of vulnerable people through your skillset and experience? Worthy Cause is looking for experts willing to apply their industry experience in a range of industries to increase the reach and impact of our charitable work.

• Heidelberg VIC, Preston VIC
• Category: Mental Health
• Types of work: Arts, Craft & Photography, Marketing, Media & Communications, Retail & Sales

Are you a content creator with a passion for social issues? We're looking for you! Worthy Cause is a social enterprise that supports vulnerable people who are overcoming severe hardship through our structured employment program. We offer them the core, interpersonal, financial and social skills they need to become employable and change their lives. All through paid employment baking and selling our amazing cookies and social enterprise cafes.

• Heidelberg VIC, Preston VIC / Remote Friendly
• Category: Mental Health
• Types of work: Counselling & Help Line, Disability Support, Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

Worthy Cause is a charity that employs and empowers marginalised and vulnerable people. Through our program they can access the skills, tools and experiences they need to live the life they deserve. We're looking for more qualified counsellors to provide weekly or fortnightly sessions to our employment participants.

• Eltham VIC, Heidelberg VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Extend the hand of friendship to an older person in the northern suburbs, such as Eltham, Greensborough, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Macleod, Rosanna.

• Heidelberg VIC, Newcastle NSW, South Brisbane QLD, Melbourne VIC / Remote Friendly
• Category: Health

The Australian Epilepsy Project (AEP) aims to change the lives of people living with epilepsy through advanced testing and AI by 2025. To achieve this we need your help. We are seeking volunteers to join our control group. Control groups are vital to a research study providing a point of comparison for general participants and helping to determine the study's efficacy. Your participation will help shape the future landscape of epilepsy diagnoses and treatment for thousands of Australians.

• Bundoora VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Montmorency VIC, Watsonia VIC
• Category: Mentoring & Advocacy
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Mediation & Advocacy, Tutoring & Coaching

Seeking flexible, patient and reliable volunteers to mentor young people, through engaging in negotiated recreational activities for a couple of hours per fortnight. Activities may include walking in the park, visiting the local library, attending festivals, playing sports, cooking or going for a drive together.

• Alphington VIC, Eaglemont VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Ivanhoe VIC, Ivanhoe East VIC, Kew VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Looking for a flexible volunteer role that makes a positive difference and reduces loneliness in our community? We are seeking champion volunteers to visit lonely older people in Ivanhoe and its surrounding suburbs. Our program helps to improve the lives of older people who face social isolation through meaningful friendships. It's very rewarding, flexible, and suited to anyone who is friendly, kind and reliable!

• Fairfield VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Heidelberg Heights VIC, Heidelberg West VIC, Panton Hill VIC, Viewbank VIC / Remote Friendly
• Category: Mentoring & Advocacy
• Types of work: Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

Mercy Works is currently recruiting volunteers to support students from a refugee asylum seeker background in the region around Heidelberg West. through their Mercy Connect Project. The project aims to provide support and mentoring for children, young people to optimize their literacy development and academic and social learning.

• Dandenong VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Maidstone VIC, Melton VIC, Noble Park VIC, Northcote VIC, Warrnambool VIC
• Category: Young People
• Types of work: Education & Training, Tutoring & Coaching

Join a supportive, like-minded and committed team of volunteers who make a real difference in the lives of young people.

• Doreen VIC, Greensborough VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Preston VIC, Reservoir VIC, Watsonia North VIC, Wollert VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Mediation & Advocacy

The advocate's role is to befriend of a vulnerable person and help them to improve their quality of life, including to be involved in the wider community.