• Mount Hutton New South Wales
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

We are looking for a Volunteer Visitor to connect with an older woman who cannot get out and about any more due to age related illness. This woman has given 6 years’ service as a volunteer, has limited connection with family, and is now hoping to have someone to chat with regularly. She is an animal lover & would love someone to talk to about everyday things.

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

Your friendly nature and good communication skills will be highly regarded in this role. Assist the frail aged in the community to remain living in their own homes by providing essential transport services. This role may require driving clients to home/hospital visits, transport to appointments, social activities, and shopping. You will require your own registered and comprehensively insured motor vehicle.

• Waratah New South Wales
• Category: Health
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Library Services

Assist with the operation of the Book Trolley at our Centre. This role involves processing donated books and magazines, including screening suitable books and magazines for content. You will organise and maintain the Volunteer Library, organise and transport the book trolley, offer books and magazines to consumers, their carers, and families in our Centre and provide general support and/or conversation to involve them in positive connections.

• Waratah New South Wales
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Arts, Craft & Photography, Music & Entertainment, Seniors & Aged Care

Are you creative? Do you have a passion for arts and crafts? Share your love for arts and crafts with residents of a local aged care facility. Use your creativity and artistic skills to assist people to create their own pieces. Resources will be provided, all you need to bring are your ideas and enthusiasm.

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

Do you have good teamwork skills and like helping others? Clothing Pool Volunteers will assist with the operation of the Clothing Pool at our Centre. This role involves unpacking and sorting donated clothing according to a set of guidelines, including sorting according to size and season. Packaging clothing and delivering items and packs to the Centre via a trolley from the Volunteer Office. Reviewing and maintaining stock levels, including assisting with targeted appeals for donations.

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

You will assist our bus driver with bus run including assisting clients with boarding and exiting the bus, securing seat belts, and navigation into the Centre. You may also help with meals, including preparing and serving food & drinks. The role also assists with activities e.g. crafts, cooking, exercises, bingo and card games, providing a great opportunity to make conversation with clients. General cleaning duties are also required.

• Waratah New South Wales
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation, Seniors & Aged Care

Bring along your good-natured pet and spend time chatting with people living with dementia or may be frail and elderly at our residential aged care home. You’ll see what a difference your furry friend can make. When bringing your pet into an aged care environment with frail and elderly residents, we ask that your pet is: Calm, patient & gentle in nature, Up-to-date with vaccinations/treatment of worms & fleas, Nails are short &blunt. Freshly cut nails should be filed. Dogs must be on a lead.

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

Spend time with an elderly person who would like a social visitor at our residential aged care home. You'll love this volunteer opportunity to chat, provide companionship and reduce their sense of isolation. The commitment is for a minimum of one hour per week for 12 months or longer. We would be delighted to talk with you about a suitable day and time during the week.

• Newcastle NSW, New South Wales
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Sport & Physical Activity, Trades & Maintenance

Habitat for Humanity Australia requires volunteers for repair and maintenance work on crisis accommodation. The program benefits disadvantaged and socially isolated members of the community. There is a range of volunteer opportunities both in and around Newcastle. No skills are required! Teams are mobilised to conduct landscaping, painting and minor repairs to homes and crisis accommodation.

• Kotara NSW, Newcastle NSW
• Category: Young People
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Counselling & Help Line, Fundraising & Events

The Hunter Cancer Hub is based in the Canteen office in Newcastle and is an exciting new project, launched in early 2022 that will act as the central point between those who are impacted by cancer and support services. The Hunter Cancer Hub (HCH) Office Administration Volunteer will play a pivotal role in supporting families and individuals who approach The Hub for support.

• Charlestown NSW, Newcastle NSW
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Driving & Transportation

Home Care Support volunteers provide a range of support services to our clients and their carers/families. Services include transporting clients to and from various appointments, assisting clients with everyday responsibilities, such as shopping and providing social support activities to clients. The role is to provide a safe, reliable and punctual service to enable our clients to access the community and reduce isolation in their everyday lives.

• Carrington NSW, Wickham NSW
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Administration & Office Management, Fundraising & Events, Marketing, Media & Communications

Your planning and communication skills will be highly regarded in this role working with Community User Groups. We are seeking a volunteer to liaise with various sporting clubs to create a collective events calendar. The calendar will identify each club's planned activities. The role also involves planning and coordinating weekly interviews with each of the sporting bodies as well as Community Radio to promote awareness of upcoming events.

• Hamilton NSW, Newcastle NSW
• Category: Community Services
• Types of work: Driving & Transportation, Tutoring & Coaching

Assist Learner Driver client(s) to practise driving skills and improve knowledge of road rules - ultimately leading to the client(s) passing the ‘P’ Licence Driving test. You will assist clients in improving their knowledge of road rules, make entries in the client’s driving log book, engage with the client in a friendly, supportive manner, and provide Driving Supervision appropriate to the client’s skill levels and pace of learning. Driving practise will be in the clients car.

• Cardiff NSW, Waratah NSW
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Companionship & Social Support, Seniors & Aged Care

Enjoy the great outdoors and spend time in the sunshine in our gardens as you walk alongside our elderly residents. You'll be helping people to maintain their mobility as well as their healthy wellbeing.

• Cardiff NSW, Waratah NSW
• Category: Seniors & Aged Care
• Types of work: Garden Maintenance, Seniors & Aged Care, Trades & Maintenance

You will assist our property staff by participating in activities related to the maintenance and general upkeep of our property. Activities may include · Touch up painting · Outdoor furniture upkeep · General gardening · Wood mulch distribution ·Feeding birds & cleaning bird cage ·Assisting move small items of furniture ·Assisting to move life engagement equipment such as a ping pong table ·Assisting to set up for events and BBQs ·Wheelchair repair ·Trimming branches and cleaning with a gurney.