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• One Off Project
• 23, 24, 27 October 2008
• Physically fit

Lifeline provides an invaluable community safety net for people in crisis whatever the time of day or night. Lifeline saves lives. Thousands of people ring every year desperate for a reason to live.

The annual Lifeline Bookfair supports training, supervision and telephone and face-to-face counselling volunteers to ensure that we are there for over 22,000 people who contact us each year.

If you are a strong and fit book lover, we urgently need your help. You will assist with preparation of the annual Lifeline Bookfair by unloading and distributing cartons of books at the Bookfair venue and then by placing the books on their allocated subject tables. At the conclusion of the Bookfair, you will repack unsold items and prepare them for transport back to the Bookfair storage area.

We need your assistance all day on Thursday 23 October 2008, on Friday morning 24 October 2008 and on Monday morning 27 October 2008.

All applicants need to be able to read and sort English book titles. The Bookfair is presented in an environment that is very satisfying to book lovers and to those who wish to assist and support Lifeline's efforts to raise funds and to increase its profile in the community.

To apply for this volunteer activity or for more information, please contact Geoff Gardner on (02) 9951 5513.

• Western Sydney
• Fortnightly, Friday nights
• From 6.30pm to 11.30pm
• Training compulsory

Street Smart Youth Vans Program provides an out-of-hours support to young people on the street. A coordinator with a group of trained volunteers goes out to locations frequented by young people in the Mt Druitt district, offering a cup of coffee and someone to talk to. Through this service we are able to offer information, support and referral to other agencies in the area.

The young people we see are frequently homeless with past experiences that have included abuse within their family environment.

The Street Smart volunteers establish positive interaction with young people that enables foster hope and life-changing behaviours.

Current Driver's License would be an advantage.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for any further information, please contact Amanda Lomas on (02) 9628 0424.

• Training offered
• Fortnightly - 4 hours
• Influence others positively

The EQUIP Youth Mentoring Program matches adult volunteers to mentor young people who are going through a process of change, growth and development. The program recruits, trains and supports volunteer mentors. Any adult over the age of 21 may apply to become a mentor.

Mentoring is one-to-one relationship between a young person and an older adult who is focused on the young person's growth and development. It is different from counselling - it is less formal and more relational. EQUIP asks its volunteers to commit to meeting face-to-face with a young person approximately four hours a fortnight with regular telephone contact in between meetings. The mentoring match goes for nine months (though there are possibilities for shortening or extending that time period). The purpose of the program is to "equip" young people for change by providing a caring, interesting and positive adult volunteer mentor.

Current driver's license isn't essential but is highly recommended.

To apply for this volunteer role or for more details, please contact Karen Caceres on (02) 9628 0424.

• Surry Hills
• Mission vehicle provided
• Weekly/weekdays am/ongoing

About Edward Eagar Lodge

Edward Eagar Lodge is a crisis accommodation hostel situated in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Sydney with 24 hours staffing.

Edward Eagar Lodge has a comprehensive support program. The Lodge gives hostel accommodation for seventy-six single people ranging in age from 18 to 80+ years. There are 13 women and 63 men accommodated for up to three months. Single rooms provide privacy, dignity, personal space and secure storage for belongings.

A Day Centre operates five days a week and provides meals, clothing, shower and laundry facilities, counselling, welfare referral, television, lounge and recreational facilities. The centre attracts about 100 people a day, who come from all sorts of backgrounds and accommodation styles including rough sleepers.

Volunteering opportunity

We are looking for competent and physically fit volunteer drivers, who would be willing to collect donated food from TAFE using a Mission vehicle. Please note that some lifting will be required. Other duties include transferring of the food, washing the containers and returning them to the donor and keeping the vehicle clean.

• Carlingford
• Flexible Hours
• Bus/Truck Driver License
• 22 seater bus

Alan Walker Village is a beautiful aged care village in Carlingford. Our volunteer bus drivers enable our elderly and frail residents live a quality life providing them with an amazing opportunity to leave the village for shopping trips and various outings.

Join our volunteer bus driver team today and enjoy the pleasure of helping others.

To apply for this volunteer role and for more information, please contact Alan Walker Village on (02) 9858 4855.

• Glebe
• Monthly
• Bus/Truck Driver's License

R J Williams Lodge is a lovely Seniors Hostel in Glebe for 82 elderly people. We would love to be able to drive our residents to monthly outings and markets but unfortunately we don't have a bus driver.

We are seeking your help. We need a competent driver with a Bus/Truck License available one Saturday a month from 11.00am to 3.00pm and also every first Friday of each month from 11.00am to 2.00pm.

Please don't look any further and apply now if you are willing and able to help.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity please contact Charlotte Bowles on (02) 9660 0177.

We look forward to hearing form you soon and welcoming you as a member of our volunteer team.

• Tuggerah, NSW Central Coast
• Training provided
• Flexible hours

Wesley Respite Day Care Centre provides their clients with safe and friendly environment that promotes self-esteem, helps maintain skills and provides carers with a much needed break. The service has a special emphasis on those with dementia.

We are looking for enthusiastic and caring volunteers willing to assist at our busy centre. We need help with food preparation, recreational activities, client personal care and much more.

Persons with second language are encouraged to apply.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for more information, please contact Deborah Williams on (02) 4305 3388.

• Wyong
• 1.5 - 2 hours
• Weekly - during office hours

'Learn as if you were going to live forever,' the saying goes. Central Coast School for Seniors allows people over the age of 60 years to take a range of stimulating courses in great company - Languages, Music, Computers and much more and you can be part of it.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and patient Computers Tutor who enjoys interaction with seniors. The school operates from Monday to Friday and the classes are held once a week for 1.5 to 2 hours for a term of 9 weeks. Days and times depends upon your availability.

If you have an interest in this specialist area and if you enjoy and understand the needs of teaching seniors, please do not hesitate to apply. We would love to hear from you.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for more information, please do not hesitate to contact Michele Whitbourne on (02) 4353 9965.

• Ashfield - weekly
• Team environment
• Training offered

This is a great career development opportunity. Not only will you be able to learn new skills and enjoy the pleasure of helping others, but you will be able to enrich and empower another life at the same time.

Our Maintenance Manager is looking for a handy person who would be willing to provide support to maintenance technician in conducting routine preventive maintenance including thermostatic mixing valves and general light maintenance.

This activity is once a week either on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays from 9.00am to 3.00pm in Ashfield.

To apply for this volunteering opportunity or for more information, please do not hesitate to contact James Foreshew on (02) 9716 1467.

• Riverstone and Quakers Hill
• Weekly, ongoing
• Interest in art

Based at the Quakers Hill Youth Service, the Riverstone Arts and Vocational Project provides outreach programs in the Riverstone, Schofields, Marsden Park and Vineyard areas.

Programs facilitated by the youth service include Urban Artist, Unique Links, Creative Journaling and Unmasking Conflict. All the programs use art making as medium to engage and encourage the development potential of young people aged between 12 and 25.

As a member of our team you will be able to enjoy the pleasure of empowering another life, learn new skills and work on your career development. We are seeking non-judgemental and motivated volunteers who can show initiative and who love art.

This activity is weekly after school hours; on Tuesdays from 3.00pm - 5.00pm, on Wednesdays from 4.00pm - 6.00pm, on Thursdays from 3.00pm - 6.00pm or anytime between 3.00pm - 6.00pm during the week to help run groups.

Come and join our volunteer team today. We would love to hear from you. To apply for this volunteering opportunity or for more information, please contact Joanna Keyser on (02) 9837 0106.

• Glenmore Park
• Training offered
• Week days
• Weekly, on-going

Wesley's Youth Services help young people and their families cope in a myriad of way, turning lives around with a compassionate approach that always respects the worth of each individual.

YouthLinx Program staff would like to invite volunteers to join their friendly team. We are seeking assistance from caring volunteers with daily running of the centre, facilitation of the drop-in centre and planning and setting-up of afternoon activities.

The centre operates from Monday to Friday from 2.30pm to 5.30pm.

Times and days may vary during school holidays.

Come and join our volunteer team and help us enrich another life.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity, please contact Laura Glasby on (02) 4721 8070.

• Dundas
• Week days
• Between 9.00am - 4.00pm
• Creativity

RE Tebbutt Lodge is a lovely and friendly Seniors Hostel situated in Dundas accommodating 67 residents.

Creative volunteers who enjoy interaction with seniors are welcome to join our friendly volunteer team.

Through this activity, you will be able to enrich and empower lives of our elderly and lonely residents. We are looking for caring volunteers who would like to share their special talent or interest in leisure activities (such as discussion groups, trivia, current affairs, reading, outings, going for a walk, painting, flower arranging, scrap booking, etc) with our residents.

Help us make a difference, help us empower lives.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for more information, please contact Shirlee Hayes on (02) 9858 4999.

• Blacktown and Baulkham Hills
• Mission Vehicle provided
• Wednesdays
• 8.30am - 1.00pm

The Early Intervention Program is a voluntary, targeted program designed for families encountering problems that impact on their ability to care for their children. The Program provides families with the necessary support and services to help prevent an escalation of the problems they are facing. The Program recognises that supporting families before problems reach a crisis improves family resilience, promotes healthy child development, and reduces child abuse and neglect.

We are looking for volunteers willing to assist our carers and children at a playgroup in Quakers Hill. The activities include e.g. driving the children and their carers and prams to the playgroup, morning tea preparation, general housekeeping, etc.

All applicants must be safe drivers and must have current driver's license.

We would love to hear from you. Don't look any further and join our friendly volunteer team. You will be able to learn new skills, meet new people and help those in need.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity, please contact Lynda Lewis on (02) 9838 7400.

• Cost of petrol covered
• Must provide trailer or utility
• Monthly or on call
• Western Sydney

The Assistance with Care and Housing for the Aged Program (ACHA) is designed to assist the homeless or people in insecure housing to access more appropriate housing with care options.

Areas served: Parramatta, Holroyd and Blacktown Local Government Areas.

We are seeking handy volunteers with a trailer or a Ute. All applicants must have a Current Driver's License or Truck Driver's License and must be physically fit to be able to move furniture for those in need. The cost of petrol is covered.

This activity is ongoing on a monthly basis or on call.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for more information, please contact Roma Price on (02) 9858 4083.

Come and join our volunteer team, meet new interesting people and enjoy the pleasure of helping others. We look forward to hearing form you very soon.

• Inner West
• Flexible times and days
• Own vehicle

Lifeline provides an invaluable community safety net for people in crisis whatever the time of day or night. Lifeline saves lives. Thousands of people ring every year desperate for a reason to live.

We are seeking volunteers who can at flexible times collect donated books (Inner West) and deliver them to our sorting area in Glebe.

All applicants need to have own vehicle and be able to lift small boxes of books.

All the books are carefully sorted and sold at the annual Lifeline Bookfair to support Lifeline Sydney, training, supervision and telephone and face-to-face counselling volunteers to ensure that we are there for over 22,000 people who contact us each year.

To apply for this volunteer opportunity or for more information, please contact Geoff Gardner on (02) 9951 5513.

• Narrabeen 
• Tuesdays 8.45am - 11.45am
• Bus/Truck Driver License
• 22 seater bus

WG Taylor Village is a beautiful aged care village in Narrabeen. As a volunteer bus driver for our village you will enable our elderly and frail residents live a quality life providing them with an amazing opportunity to leave the village for shopping trips and various outings.

If you have empathy with the elderly and a good sense of humour, this is the right activity for you.

You will get to meet some wonderful people who really appreciate the time you give.

To apply for this volunteer role and for more information, please contact WG Taylor Village on (02) 9913 7040.

• Liverpool Area

• Mission vehicle provided

• 8.30am - 2.30pm

• Week days

• Wesley Rehabilitation Services (WRS) is a new and innovative program, with a difference, for homeless men and women who wish to recover from addictions. WRS’ vision is to assist homeless women at Grace Manor and homeless men at Turnaround into a change of lifestyle.

• We are looking for caring and physically fit volunteers with a current Driver's License willing to drive our clients to doctors’ appointments and food bank. Items removal with a trailer might be occasionally required.

• We need volunteers at least three days a week from 8.30am to 2.30pm.Mission vehicle, patrol and training are provided for this volunteer activity.

• Come and join our volunteer team and help us change the world. Come and enjoy the pleasure of helping others and meet new interesting people.

• To apply for this volunteer activity and/or for more details, please contact Kristine Cox on (02) 9608 0531.

   

• Pagewood
• Weekdays
• Weekly
• During office hours

Hoban House is a lovely seniors' hostel in Pagewood. It provides comfortable, friendly and safe accommodation to 47 aged residents.

We are currently looking for caring volunteers who enjoy interaction with seniors, volunteers who would like to take our lonely residents for a walk or to an appointment, spend quality time one on one and serve and prepare morning and/or afternoon tea.

All potential volunteers must be willing to undergo relevant checks. Current driver's license isn't essential but could help when taking a resident to an appointment.

Come and join our friendly team of volunteers and enjoy the pleasure of helping those in need.

To apply for this volunteer activity or for more information, please contact Bobbie Glover on (02) 9349 3550.