- Are you interested in Volunteering in Sydney or Liverpool and wondered what volunteer opportunities might exist for someone like yourself? If this is you, and you would love to donate your time and work to become one of Sydney’s dedicated volunteers, then please read on to find the type of opportunity (or opportunities!) that could best match you.
• Community Visitors / Home Visitors to the Eldery / Aged
Friendly visitor to the aged, visit at least once per fortnight, spending time doing something they enjoy, read, listen to music, chat, watch TV, walks, an outing.
Second language often helpful.
Includes training.
• Aged and Dementia Service
Looking after and helping the elderly, running therapies, activities and groups. Can accommodate 15hours of volunteering/week for benefit requirements.
Includes training.
• Helping With Activities For Dementia Patients To Give Carers Some Respite.
May include: quizzes, table games, art, music, craft, stories, gentle exercises, floor games, gardening, picnics & outings.
Includes training.
• Volunteering Within A Disability Service
Accompanying clients on outings, support with group activities, vacation care programs.
Includes training.
• Program to aid literacy in local schools.
Be trained in the literacy program and work with children in primary schools within the local area. Develop children’s self esteem.
• Assist with transporting the aged & disabled.
Bus drivers, car drivers, assist on outings on the buses, assist in the office
• Gardeners required
For community gardens and for maintaining not-for-profit organisation’s gardens.
We hope a volunteer work opportunity in Sydney has caught your eye. If so, call us & come in for a chat! We’d love to hear from you!
Nice to see an organisation getting out there and helping people. Good onya, keep it up!
good reading here – wow there are such a wide range of volunteer work opportunities available in Sydney! And these ones are just in the Liverpool area? Amazing.
I have passed this list onto some close colleagues who should find this well worth a read.
WONDERFUL Post.thanks for sharing. I think an important factor to successful volunteers will be working in honest good faith. I don’t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, however I am certain that your job is clearly recognized as a good game. Be encouraged!
wow, i read your post Wondering What Volunteering Opportunities Exist In Sydney? and i thought you really expanded my horizons there!
Is the reading to kids volunteer position still available?