Upcoming Events

The Volunteer Referral Service is closed down for holidays over the Christmas and New Year period. It will re-open on Monday, 12 January 2009 for interviews. Please call 9261 3600 after Monday, 5 January 2009 to make an appointment. We look forward to helping find you a volunteer position for 2009.

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Advertise for event volunteers

Put your event volunteer role on our website

Are you a not-for-profit organisation and holding an event or are you involved in a not-for-profit fundraising event? Members of The Centre for Volunteering can advertise their event and their request for volunteers on our website for free! Our pool of event volunteers are experienced in all aspects of event management including: spectator services, marshalling, fundraising, time keeping, pre-event office assistance, registration and logistics.

Complete our online job advertisement form making sure to include the details of your event, how many volunteers you need and what they will be doing.

Events email alert

Not-for-profit members of The Centre can also have email access to our team of over 500 event volunteers. For just $110 (inc. GST) we will send an email alert to our volunteers advertising your event, your volunteer needs and your volunteer coordinator's contact details. Our volunteers will contact you directly to express their interest. View a sample event volunteer email alert.

Juliana Collins, Community Volunteer Coordinator, Manly Council wrote...

"Thank you so much for your support in assisting me with volunteers for our Manly Jazz Festival - I can't express how appreciative I am!!! We had such a fantastic result with some amazing volunteers assisting us, we had a total of 38 volunteers during the 3 day event and 13 of these were Event Volunteers from Volunteering NSW, with many other enquiries that we simply could not fit on the roster!!!! It was an amazing outcome, we will definitely use your Event Database again especially for such large scale events, the (money) would definitely be money well spent.

It was useful having volunteers who have been exposed to the event environment before, our events team provided fantastic feedback, even stating we had the best bunch of volunteers this year EVER."

Historic House Trust wrote of our event matching service...

"... our volunteer target for this event has been reached. I would particularly like to thank [The Centre] for their assistance. We received an outstanding response once the email was sent out from The Centre for Volunteering and I attribute our rapid success in achieving our recruitment goal to the use of this service."

For more information phone Odessa O'Brien on 9261 3600.

If you're not a member download our membership registration form (737 KB) today!

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Special volunteer role

The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research investigates respiratory and sleep disorders, and conducts research studies at Glebe.

Volunteers with medical conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome are required to participate in medical research at the Woolcock. Healthy volunteers are also welcome!

Volunteers are reimbursed for any out-of-pocket expenses and receive specialist care throughout their trial. For further information and to register on the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research volunteer database, please call 1800 828 717 or visit www.woolcock.org.au

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