Volunteering ACT

November 2003

The Christmas holidays are nearly here! Do you need additional volunteers over the holiday period? If you are a member of VACT and have specific tasks we can recruit volunteer for you. We want those job referrals in ASAP so that you won’t be left without the assistance you need at a time when there are some additional stresses on some organisations. You can also lodge them on the website www.govolunteer.com.au or we will do that for you.

The usual cry from our member agencies is volunteers wanted, well this time the shoe is on the other foot.

The number of potential volunteers coming to Volunteering ACT both at our offices in Belconnen and at our outreach service in Tuggeranong continues to increase. This is particularly the case with the number of people who are “surfing” the web and finding positions on the govolunteer website and wishing to know more about the positions that are advertised on the site.

As a consequence, we are in urgent need of additional volunteer positions to be added to our data base.

This is a great opportunity for your organisation to assess your current workload and give serious consideration to the further assistance that you may need. Many volunteers are now looking for short term positions so there may be some projects that you are seeking specialised volunteers to fill.

We are finding extremely talented and enthusiastic volunteers seeking work in a broad spectrum of positions

Whether you have “short” or “long term” positions we want to know about them.

To further discuss the opportunities that you may have available please call our Customer Service Manager, Ian De Landelles on 62514060. or email on referral@volunteeract.com.au

OUTREACH – We are now in Tuggeranong.

Every Friday morning we offer our referral service in the Tuggeranong Community Centre This means that those who find it difficult to travel to Belconnen are able to have an interview with our volunteer interviewers and investigate all the volunteer opportunities that are available.