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Volunteering

Volunteering is a great way to get to know people, learn more about your community and help other at the same time.   

A Family Guide to getting involved

The benefits of volunteering, how the whole family can be involved, and ideas about how to begin.

Provided by KidsHealth as part of The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, which provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free information about health and development.

Volunteer Now

Find out how you can volunteer in your community right now. There are lots of opportunities including in sport, art and culture, welfare, refugee settlement, education, conservation.  You could be involved in designing, tutoring, planting, driving, research, supporting, befriending, interviewing, mentoring, counselling, strategic and business planning, managing, marketing and more!

Provided by Volunteering New Zealand which is an association of regional volunteer centres and national organisations with a strong commitment to volunteering.

Be inspired

Get inspired by reading stories about other people's experiences of volunteering.

Provided by Volunteering Australia the national peak body working to advance volunteering in the Australian community.

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