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Volunteers

Why Volunteer?

  • Make a difference in your community
  • Connect with people
  • Gain experience and skills
  • Support the causes you care about
  • Keep your brain & body active
  • Be part of a team
  • Improve your health and reduce stress
  • Boost your C.V. and find employment
  • Have fun!

Starting your volunteer journey

Introduction to Volunteering
Read the Volunteering NZ guide to becoming volunteer ready

Volunteering Matters Newsletter
Subscribe for the latest news, volunteer stories and upcoming events

Charity Op Shopping
Check out practical ways to support the causes you care about

How To Volunteer?

See below for three ways we can support you to become a volunteer.

1. Individual Volunteering

Our online listings offer hundreds of individual volunteer roles available right now across Canterbury.

Search Volunteer Opportunities

To find a role where you can make a difference, filter by category, geographical area or time commitment.

It’s quick and easy to request referrals for opportunities you wish to explore further. You can have up to four active referrals at any one time.

If you’d prefer to speak to someone on our team, you can

  • phone us on (03) 366 2442
  • or send us a message

2. Group Volunteering

For those who enjoy doing voluntary work within a group, we have opportunities available for one-off and longer term projects. Some recent projects undertaken by groups were:

  • University of Canterbury – The Green Lab (tidying the Family Recovery Garden)
  • AUIP – Avon-Otakaro Network (mulching at Riverbend Refuge)
  • Middleton Grange School – Hohepa Barrington (landscape tidy up)
  • Casebrook Intermediate – Hohepa Halswell (gardening tidy up)
  • Bahai’i Group – St Vincent de Paul (bagging firewood for distribution)
  • U3A – 0800 Hungry (packing & delivering food parcels)
  • Hagley Community College – CCC Graffiti Programme (graffiti removal)
  • St Francis of Assisi School – Community Energy Action (curtain bank sorting)

If you’d like to speak to someone on our team about group volunteering, please phone (03) 366 2442 or email us with your query.

3. Other Volunteer Services

If you’d like more support, we welcome people to our office to discuss your volunteer options with us face-to-face.

Our Schoolsmatch service helps secondary schools and students use our service more easily. And our Skillsmatch service helps people look for specific skills-based roles.

If you’d like to speak to someone on our team about these services, please phone us: (03) 366 2442 or email us with your questions.

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You can also sign up for our Volunteering Matters newsletter. We'll send you the latest news, volunteer stories, upcoming events and highlight some of the latest volunteer opportunities.

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