From recruiting the best volunteers for your organisation to making sure you are ready to treat them like the valuable asset they are, Volunteering Warrnambool can help your not-for-profit or community organisation with all its volunteering needs.

How we help organisations:• Advertise your volunteer roles to a large

database of prospective volunteers.• Recruit volunteers specifically to match your

organisation’s needs.• Help your organisation become “volunteer

ready”.• Help your staff and volunteers access peer

networks.• Help with the big, necessary stuff– insurance,

risk management, compliance, best practice and volunteer management.

Volunteers are awesome, and having volunteers in your organisation is a privilege. Do you know how to look after them and keep them?

Volunteering Warrnambool provides services to the community and its volunteers by matching willing volunteers to not-for-profit groups throughout the Great South Coast region of Victoria.

But we do so much more!

Volunteering Warrnambool: Recruits and refers volunteers; Advertises volunteer roles; Trains volunteers and organisations; Provides advice on all things volunteering; and, Works hard to make volunteering a great

experience for everyone.

A not-for-profit organisation itself, Volunteering Warrnambool is funded by Warrnambool City Council and the Department of Social Services.

So if you’re a prospective volunteer looking for a role, or a community or not-for-profit organisation that uses volunteers, give us a call!

Donating your time to help others isn’t just a nice thing to do – it’s good for you too!

FOR ORGANISATIONS

We will help make your organisation one that volunteers brag about!

We love volunteers – we value them and we want to make sure they are happy.

If you’re keen to give your time and skills but are not sure how to find a role that suits, Volunteering Warrnambool is the perfect place to start.

We provide a role-matching service as well as all the support and advice you’ll need to begin your volunteering journey in the Great South Coast.

How we help volunteers: Find roles that suit your skills, interests and

availability. Uncover volunteer positions you didn’t even

know existed. Answer all your questions – we’re

“volunteering nerds” and if we don’t know it already, we’ll find out!

VOLUNTEERSFOR

Volunteers give their skills, time and life experiences to benefit their community in many different ways. From helping in emergencies to delivering meals to the elderly, our community would be a poorer place without them.

Community groups, and the volunteers that work for them, make a positive difference in the community and the more support they have the bigger the difference they make.

Volunteering Warrnambool helps: Volunteers People who want to volunteer Groups and organisations that use

volunteers People and groups that serve the community

Volunteering Warrnambool supports the volunteers and organisations who look after others.

It’s the least we can do!

WE BE WITHOUTWHERE WOULD

VOLUNTEERS? SupportingVOLUNTEERSand community groups

across the Great South Coast

Our vision

A Great South Coast community supported by a strong and growing

volunteer sector.

Our mission

To ensure that volunteering in the Great South Coast region is a safe and

enjoyable activity available to everyone.

For all things Volunteering:

Volunteering Warrnambool The Archie Graham Community Centre 118-130 Timor Street (PO Box 198) Warrnambool VIC 3280

P 03 5559 4920 E volunteering@warrnambool.vic.gov.au www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au/volunteering

ABN: 44 594 264 321

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