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UnitingCare Ballarat has over 550 volunteers who cook, drive, visit, counsel, provide friendship, fundraise, answer phones, work in our shops, collect donations, sort and stack groceries, care and contribute great ideas and spirit .…. As well as helping the community, volunteering is a chance to meet new people and practice new and old skills. There are social volunteer get-togethers throughout the year, and many friendships are built from these occasions.
If you would like to volunteer for any of the below services, please fill out an Expression of Interest Form here. A Manager or Coordinator from the service you nominated will be in touch with you within a few weeks.
Programs and Services where volunteers are essential and can make a difference:
Aged & disAbility Services (for the frail aged & people with disAbilities)
Community Visitor Scheme: Volunteer visitors are matched with residents at Aged Care facilities.
Do Care: Visitors are matched with people who live independently in their own homes to provide them with social contact & activities.
Residential Services Visiting Program: Visit residents in a supported Residential Services facility, assist with bus trips & in-house activities.
Community Transport: Escorted transport is provided for medical appointments, to visit friends or go shopping (unattended).
Buddies: Providing recreational & leisure activities for adults who have a disAbility.
Agency Development & Fundraising
Event Committee: Be part of a committee dedicated to making a difference to disadvantaged people. The Event Committee supports a range of agency fundraising and awareness events. Roles include sharing your ideas and suggestions, assistance in event lead up (i.e planning, book sorting, pick-ups, promotion) and assisting at events with set up, cooking & selling food, sales and pack up. Those who are unable to attend committee meetings can still assist at events.
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Youth Referral and Independent Person Program (YRIPP): Volunteers support young people during interviews with Police when a parent or guardian is unavailable.
Lifeline Ballarat
Telephone Crisis Support: Training is offered to those interested in this program to enable them to become volunteer telephone crisis supporters.
Shops
UnitingCare Furniture Shop: Assistance in the shop with sales & deliveries.
Op Shops (Lydiard St, Shepperd St, Light Lounge & Violet Grove): Fulfilling the position of shop assistant, sales & merchandising.
Warehouse: Sorting of donations & preparation of stock for sale.
Welfare & Support Services
Welfare Program: Sort & replenish stocks of various relief supplies for distribution to clients.
BreezeWay – Meals for Homeless People: Preparation & serving of meals to people who are homeless or have no means of cooking their food (i.e. residents of rooming houses, etc)
If you would like to volunteer for any of the above services, please fill out an Expression of Interest form here. A Manager or Coordinator from the services you nominated will be in touch with you within a few weeks.
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