• 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.

• Parkville VIC, Reservoir VIC, Rosanna VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Apply to join our Coffee & Chat Program to help increase connectedness and happiness among aged care residents. We are looking for a special kind of person to visit our residents – a St Vincent’s kind of person. Someone who puts compassion, connection and caring for other people at the heart of everything they do.

• Eltham VIC, Macleod VIC, Rosanna VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

We are looking for friendly, compassionate and caring volunteers interested in enriching the lives of older people living in residential aged care or at home. If you love a chat and can commit to visiting someone regularly please get in touch.

• 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.

• Preston VIC, Preston Lower VIC, Reservoir VIC, Yallambie 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.

• Bundoora VIC, Epping VIC, Mill Park VIC, Reservoir VIC, Thomastown VIC
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Share your smile, the Italian language and culture with an Italian lady who would love your companionship during fortnightly visits. Volunteering brings fun and fulfilment to your life and makes a huge difference to those in the community seeking companionship.

• 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.

• Briar Hill VIC, Doreen VIC, Heidelberg VIC, Preston VIC, Reservoir VIC, Watsonia VIC, Wollert VIC
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Disability Support, Tutoring & Coaching

Are you looking to make a difference to someone's life? Become a mentor and advocate to a person with disability.

• Banyule VIC, Blackburn VIC, Box Hill VIC, Camberwell VIC, Clayton VIC, Doncaster VIC, Donvale VIC, Knoxfield VIC
• Category: Family Services

Are you female and over 35 and want to support a women recovering from the impact of family violence? Do you have excellent communication skills and the ability to listen and empathise? Helping women move forward with their life and connect back to the community will be one of the most rewarding things you ever do. You must Live in one of the following LGAs: Monash; Banyule; Boroondara; Whitehorse; Maroondah; Knox and Manningham?

• Fawkner Victoria
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Retail & Sales

Are you looking to make a great contribution to the social programs of The Salvation Army? Feel a sense of achievement and pride in 'giving back’ to the community? Gain valuable work experience? Make new friends and work in a fun environment?