• Belmont NSW, Bonnells Bay NSW, Boolaroo NSW, Cardiff NSW, Mayfield NSW, Morisset NSW, Newcastle NSW, Warners Bay NSW
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care

Do you have an hour to spare in your week (or fortnight) to share in our passion for improving the quality of life of the elderly? You'd be providing companionship and social interaction for an older person living in their own home within Newcastle and Lake Macquarie districts. Your empathy for the elderly, reliability, caring nature and listening skills are needed for this role. Up to date Flu vaccination and current National Criminal Check are required.

• Charlestown NSW, Eleebana NSW, Elermore Vale NSW, Hamilton NSW, Jesmond NSW, Maitland NSW, Nelson Bay NSW, Newcastle NSW
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care

Do you enjoy having a chat and sharing a cuppa? You might like to visit and befriend a person living in an aged care home. If it suits you both, you could take the resident out or for a walk in the grounds. Spend time sharing interests, listening & talking.

• Wallsend New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Education & Training

Help young people attain their provisional licence by providing safe and supportive driving instruction. Educate learners on vehicle controls, road rules, defensive driving techniques, and manoeuvres to pass driving tests. The role involves tailoring lessons to suit each student’s abilities, instilling safe driving habits, emphasising the importance of defensive driving, hazard perception, & accident prevention, providing feedback and maintaining records of progress, lessons and logbook hours.

• Swansea New South Wales
• Category: Education & Training
• Types of work: Tutoring & Coaching, Working with Animals

Taking your dog into your local school every week for approx 2 hours to help children read.

• Heatherbrae New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Trades & Maintenance

Your gardening experience, or your willingness to learn new gardening skills, will be greatly appreciated in this role. You'll be working outdoors in a beautiful setting: planting, weeding, pruning and mulching as well as other garden related activities. Days and hours are negotiable to suit your schedule. The role requires a current Criminal Record Check and would prefer a current Working with Children Check.

• Hexham New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Trades & Maintenance

A low stress role in the company of other volunteers, where, once a week, you would help make sure the kitchen and fridge are clean, do a bit of tidying, light dusting and wiping over library shelves. This role would suit someone who has an interest in conservation, who wants to meet new people and enjoy their company.

• Hexham New South Wales
• Category: Environment & Conservation
• Types of work: Education & Training

Use your knowledge of the natural environment and research skills to develop a series of environmental education activities. Activities are designed to enable participants to safely investigate social history and explore the wetlands flora and fauna of one of the Hunters most significant biodiversity centers. Full access to the resources of the organisation will be provided to support the development of easily reproduced and copied materials.

• Hexham New South Wales
• Category: Environment & Conservation
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Trades & Maintenance

Enjoy a walk and a chat as you stroll along the shoreline of Ash Island picking up small items of litter. You'll use a grab stick and bag to pick up small items, mostly plastic, to ensure they don't enter waterways threatening wildlife, and help improve the visual appeal of the landscape. At the end of the shift, you'll enter the data into the computer, with help provided if needed, to record types of litter collected. This is part of a Citizen Science project.

• Charlestown New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Research, Policy & Analysis, Seniors & Aged Care

Assist the organisation with developing and maintaining an up to date WHS system. Provide guidance and supervision on WHS matters to Staff and volunteers across the organisation. Conduct WHS Audits. Maintain WHS registers and assist with relevant meetings.

• Charlestown New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Your good communication skills, friendly personality and empathy with frail aged people will be of great value in this role. You will support staff who work with clients in a day care type environment - socialising with clients and assisting with activities such as games and craft. You'll help with tea and coffee making, and serving of meals. Some activities are off-site so having your own vehicle to get there would be helpful. Current National Criminal Check required.

• Charlestown New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Seniors & Aged Care

Your general garden maintenance skills and previous experience are highly sought after for this role. You'll be mowing, whipper-snipping, weeding etc around the homes of frail aged and disabled members of our community. Ideally, you'll be able to do this work on Mondays and Tuesdays between 7.30am and 12.30pm. National Criminal Check required.

• Elermore Vale New South Wales
• Category: Community Services

We are seeking volunteers in our Support Team. This may involve facilitating support programs, talking with & supporting those with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Suicide. You may be designing school based ‘mentoring’ support programs and delivering support programming in local schools. If you have experience or interest as a support worker, or educator or have a Lived Experience, and are interested in raising awareness of mental health & suicide prevention, we would like to hear from you.

• Elermore Vale New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Education & Training

If you have experience or passion in public speaking, video production, education or have a Lived Experience and can help raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention, join our volunteer team. We are seeking volunteers to support our work in the community. This may involve designing and facilitating lived experience workshops and/or public speaking for community, corporate, health or school groups. Tasks may involve planning, filming and editing lived experience story videos.

• Elermore Vale New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance

Do you have experience and /or an interest in gardening or education? Are you interested in raising awareness of mental health and suicide prevention? We are seeking volunteers in our Green Team to support our work in the community. This will involve maintenance of our sunflower garden and worm farm, facilitating community garden events and supporting community & school activity sessions.

• Elermore Vale New South Wales
• Category: Community Services

We are seeking volunteers in our Administration Team to provide office-based support. The role includes general administration duties including filing, scanning, photocopying, sending emails, word processing, using databases and resource organisation. If you have experience or an interest in administration, are seeking to develop skills or are interested in learning about what we do in raising awareness of mental health and suicide prevention, please contact us.