Becoming a volunteer is a fulfilling and rewarding way to help your community. Volunteering provides an opportunity to socialise with other volunteers and use your experience and personality for the benefit of the community. Volunteering is crucial to many of the City of Holdfast Bay’s programs and services.
Current volunteering opportunities
Bay Discovery Centre
Glenelg’s museum and Visitor Information Outlet is looking for summer volunteer guides working across the museum, gallery and Visitor Information Outlet starting November 2021. We would love to hear from anyone who loves art, culture and history or just loves having a chat.
Alwyndor
Alwyndor is an aged care facility, providing hostel and nursing home support to aged persons, such as recreation and social programs, outings and bus trips, taking residents to appointments, morning and afternoon tea, garden maintenance, Alwyndor shop and room trolley service.
Community Bus and Personal Transport
Bus drivers, navigators, Bus Office support team for the community buses. Individual transport for less-able people to local appointments using volunteer's own vehicle.
Environmental Projects
Activities include planting local indigenous plant species in sand dunes or gullies, weeding, team leader duties, committee work and more. No experience is necessary, just enthusiasm and an interest in restoring and protecting our natural assets.
Home Maintenance
Volunteers assist council staff with minor home maintenance, including things such as changing light globes, changing smoke detector batteries, minor gardening, security checks and limited rubbish removal for aged and disabled people.
Other volunteer opportunities
Bay Discovery Centre
Front-of-house duties and/or team leaders, supervise exhibits, tour guides.
Bike Pump Track Maintenance Assistance
Undertake minor maintenance associated with the bike pump track.
History Centre
Research, collate, computer data entry and cataloguing of items of local historical significance. Here is more information on the History Centre .
Community Safety
Public Education Volunteer - Attend designated public areas within the City of Holdfast Bay and hand out information (in the form of leaflets and hand-outs) to the public to educate and assist an understanding of the various legislations and regulations which Community Safety manage.
Social Support
Volunteers are introduced to older people with a view to providing friendship, shopping assistance and practical support.
Library
Holdfast Bay Library Service has volunteers who assist with our Home Service program and re-shelve library materials at both library sites.
Events
Volunteers are occasionally involved in assisting in the delivery of a number of events including Proclamation Day, City to Bay Fun Run, The Lord Mayor’s Garden Party, SALA and other art, sport and and cultural events.
Administration Support
Computer data entry, filing and routine clerical tasks.
Special Skills
You may have special skills or interests that can be applied to an individual or group special project, please let us know.
Justice of the Peace (JP)
To provide a regular Justice of the Peace service for the community within Council premises
- Brighton Civic Centre; 24 Jetty Road, Brighton between 10am and 12noon Monday.
- Glenelg Library; 2 Colley Terrace, Glenelg between 9.30am and 12 noon Friday except public holidays.
Volunteering FAQs
Anyone who is:
- Willing to get involved in their local community.
- Willing to freely offer their time, life experience, friendship and interests to enrich the lives of others in their community.
- Reliable, honest, responsible, caring & committed.
- Willing to learn/ teach/participate.
- To be allocated to a suitable volunteer area or activity when a vacancy occurs.
- To receive travel reimbursement when using own private vehicle in the course of volunteering activities.
- To receive official clothing, name badge or equipment where required.
- Training and support in Health and Safety and volunteer role requirements.
- A reward and recognition program.
- To enjoy their volunteering experience.
- That volunteers act professionally in representing the City of Holdfast Bay.
- That volunteers attend team meetings and undergo essential Occupational Health Safety and Welfare training.
- That volunteers are reliable and enthusiastic.