Information about volunteer organisations
Page content: Victorian volunteer referral
services | Environment | Young people | Celebrating
the diversity of volunteering | Family & community
support | International neighbours | Pets/Animals |
Sport & recreation |
Emergency services | Civic participation | Scope
of volunteering | Arts &
heritage | Environment
Victorian volunteer referral services
Volunteer Resource Centres work with agencies in their local areas and assist
people who are interested in undertaking volunteer work. Volunteer information
officers assist potential volunteers to access information, clarify areas
of interest and discuss volunteering opportunities in your area of the
State. Contact one of the following Volunteer Referral Services:
Volunteering Victoria
Level 7, 388 Burke Street
MELBOURNE 3000
Telephone: (61 3) 9642 5266
Fax: (61 3) 9642 5277 |
Booroondara Volunteer Resource Centre
405 Camberwell Road
CAMBERWELL 3124
Telephone: (61 3) 9882 5860
(61 3) Fax: 9804 0060 |
Eastern Volunteer Resource Centre
Maroondah Federation Estate
32 Greenwood Avenue
RINGWOOD 3134
Telephone: (61 3) 9870 7822
Fax: (61 3) 9879 4200 |
Monash Volunteer Resource Centre
583 Ferntree Gully Road
GLEN WAVERLEY 3150
Telephone: (61 3) 9562 0414
Fax: (61 3) 9562 0411 |
Albury/Wodonga Volunteer Resource Centre
1st Floor, T & G Building
ALBURY 2640
Telephone: (61 2) 60 210 990
Fax: (61 2) 60 210 993 |
Wimmera Volunteers Inc.
48 McLachlan Street
HORSHAM 3400
Telephone: (61 3) 53 825 607
Fax: (61 3) 53 825 711 |
Geelong Volunteer Resource Centre
87c McLarty Place
GEELONG 3220
Telephone: (61 3) 52 211 377
Fax: (61 3) 52 211 499 |
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Environment
Contact:
Conservation Volunteers of Australia
62-74 Pickles Street
SOUTH MELBOURNE 3205
Telephone: (61 3) 9686 5554
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Tree planting
- Erosion and salinity control
- Seed collection
- Construction and maintenance of walking tracks
- Endangered flora and fauna surveys
- Heritage restoration
Young people
Contact:
Volunteers for Isolated
Students’ Education
George Murdoch
Telephone: (61 3) 9369 6709 or 0412 634 304
Volunteering
Opportunities:
- Tutoring isolated primary and secondary students
on distance education
- Travelling to rural and remote areas of Outback Australia
- Providing support for overworked parents in the Outback
- Sharing family life in the Outback
- Making new friends and having fun
Celebrating the diversity of volunteering
Contact:
Ecumenical Migration Centre
Volunteer Coordinator
Brotherhood of St Laurence
97 Brunswick Street FITZROY 3065
Telephone: (61 3) 9416 0044
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Reception/administration
- Support work for newly arrived refugees
- Assisting with service work at the Ecumenical Migration Centre
- Endangered flora and fauna surveys
- Heritage restoration
Family & community support
Contact:
Foodbank Victoria
Business Coordinator
55 Parer Road
AIRPORT WEST 3042
Telephone: (61 3) 9338 3769
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Administration/reception
- Driving a truck, light vehicle or forklift
- Warehousing/re-packaging
- Gardening
- Cleaning
International neighbours
Contact:
Ms Mavis Taylor
52 Thom Street
YARRAWONGA 3730
Telephone: (61 3) 5744 2703
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Travel
- Teach women of East Timor to use a knitting machine
- Packing goods
- Administration
- Formation of local groups throughout Australia
- Fund raising
Pets/Animals
Contact:
Cat Protection Society of Victoria
PO Box 257
GREENSBOROUGH 3088
Telephone: (61 3) 9434 7155
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Assisting feline attendants
- Clerical and administration including mailouts
- Grooming cats
- Participation in special events
Sport & recreation
Contact:
Delia Baber
296 Campbell Street
SWAN HILL 3502
Telephone: (61 3) 5033 2008; or
Carmel Mackay
Mallee Sports Assembly
183 Walnut Street
MILDURA 3500
Telephone: (61 3) 5023 8226
For information on volunteering opportunities in sport and recreation also
contact: Department of
Sport and Recreation
Telephone: (61 3)
9666 4200
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Organising events
- Training
- Education
- Publicity
- Promotion
- Personal and professional experience
Emergency services
Contact:
Country Fire Authority
Volunteer Recruitment
Telephone: 1800 677 813
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Administration, brigade planning and fundraising
- Community education, development and information; development of brigade
and community links, media and public relations
- Community safety
- People management and support, recruiting and inducting members
- Managing brigade training and delivering training
Civic participation
Contact:
Manager Human Resources
Red Cross Volunteer Transport
171 City Road
SOUTHBANK 3006
Telephone: (61 3) 9685 9999
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Transporting people to essential medical appointments in Melbourne and regional
Victoria
Scope of volunteering
Contact:
Melbourne Tourism Service
Volunteer Coordinator
Telephone: (61 3) 9658 9460
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Staffing the Melbourne Visitor Information Centre and the two Visitor Information
Booths
- Participating in the Melbourne Greeter Service
Arts & heritage
Contact:
Moomba Festival
Trams on Parade Coordinators
PO Box 90, Flinders Lane
MELBOURNE 8009
Telephone: (61 3) 9650 9744
Volunteering Opportunities:
- Administration
- Parade marshal
- Liaising with artists and performers on the day of the event
- Stage management on the day of the event
- Providing information and working with children on the day of the event
- Assist with interactive activities with the public on the day of the event
Environment
Contact:
Australian Conservation Foundation Inc.
Volunteer Coordinator
340 Gore Street
FITZROY 3065
Telephone: (61 3) 9926 6724
Volunteering Opportunities:
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