Grants of up to $150,000 each are now available to help FNQ & NQ communities recover from the 2019 Monsoon Trough, thanks to a $4.5 million Round One recovery package being jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments.
Bundamba State Secondary College student, Melanie is currently undertaking the CHC24015 Certificate II in Active Volunteering through our Students as Active Volunteers Initiative (SAAVI).
NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture. This year’s theme is: VOICE TREATY TRUTH and organisers of this year’s NAIDOC Week have issued an invitation to the community: “Lets work together for a shared future”.
National Student Volunteer Week (NSVW) aspires to challenge and celebrate young people who are striving to make change through volunteering!
On 12 - 18 August 2019, a wide variety of events, activities and campaigns that promote student volunteering will be led by higher education providers and schools nation-wide.
Volunteering Australia invites you to contribute your voice by submitting an abstract to present at the upcoming National Volunteering Conference to be held in Perth on 18 - 20 March 2020.
Volunteering Australia are delighted to announce the dates for next year's National Volunteer Week as: Monday 18 May – Sunday 24 May 2020
Sawasdee! (Hello in Thai). The 16th IAVE Asia Pacific Regional Volunteer Conference and Youth Volunteer Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 11 - 15 November 2019.
This 5-day event is hosted by the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) in collaboration with Volunteer Spirit Network which is a national platform of volunteering promotion in Thailand. The conference aims to bring together civil society, government sectors, corporates, NGOs and academia to uncover values that need to be in place for volunteering to be valuable, sustainable and beneficial to the volunteers, organisations and wider community.
Sunday 1 September is the start of Queensland Child Protection Week (1-7 September 2019), and it is an opportunity for us all in the community to connect and think about how we can work together to keep all children safe and feeling protected.
Volunteering Queensland’s Wynnum Hub will soon be starting a new Digital Mentor program on Friday mornings between 9am and 11am. We may expand the project to other days in the future depending on the need and available volunteers.
The Settlement Council of Australia (SCoA) and Volunteering Australia have today released their report, ‘Volunteering and Settlement in Australia’, with a snapshot of the volunteering activities of new migrants and refugees in Australia.
In the settlement sector, 65 per cent of new arrivals to Australia volunteered within the first 18 months of their arrival to Australia, to contribute to society, make friends, improve their English or gain local work experience.
