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Volunteer Positions
Helping Hands on Holidays
Encouraging visitors to the Cradle Coast region to stay a while and help a mile. Join volunteer environmental projects counting penguins, painting huts at Cradle Mountain, helping with seaside weeding and more.
Go to www.cradlecoastnrm.com and follow the Helping Hands links to our calendar of events.
Carnarvon Gorge National Park - Volunteer options available now:
Carnarvon Gorge National Park is looking for some help from one or two volunteers during their busy periods being October-November 2011 and January-February 2012 (ie. two month periods is preferred but one month is possible).
They want somebody who is personable, flexible, self sufficient, physically capable, and perhaps a little extroverted to assist with the following work:
- Visitor Centre front desk assistance (8-10am and 2-5pm or all day during school holidays)
- Visitor surveying
- Mist flower removal
Induction/training will be done by rangers. Especially to cover staff/volunteer standards (eg. code of conduct), emergency policies and procedures, library and computer use.
Depending on who you are, we will try to tailor this role to one’s strengths and skills. And if appropriate, this may evolve into more campground hosting type work.
You will be welcome to stay at the barracks (single beds, cupboards, reverse cycle air, kitchen with fridges, stove/oven, tv). The rangers do food runs every two weeks to get supplies. But generally everybody is responsible for their own food.
If this type of work interests you in any way or know somebody who might be able to help, please call Anna Tran from National Parks Association of Queensland on 07 3367 0878 or email atran@npaq.org.au Volunteers need to be confirmed with the park rangers as soon as possible.
Outback Links - Travel with a Purpose:
Outback Links needs volunteers who can provide families living in isolated locations across outback Australia with a helping hand. Volunteers perform a variety of jobs such as gardening, fencing, and plumbing, assistance with computers, book-keeping, truck driving and even looking after children while parents work. Volunteers have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of remote families. At the same time, participating families get a lot out of having an extra set of hands on deck. Many Outback Links volunteers combine their travel in outback Australia with a short volunteer placement. One campervan owner who volunteered with Outback Links dubbed it 'travel with a purpose'. The program is a part of Frontier Services, the major provider of aged care, health and community services, and pastoral support to people in outback and remote Australia. To find out more phone 1300 731 349 or go to www.frontierservices.org/outbacklinks
Exciting tourism volunteer opportunities only a click away:
Would-be tourism volunteers in Queensland searching for exciting opportunities to lend a helping hand will find they’re only a click away thanks to a new website.
To find out what tourism volunteering opportunities are available visit www.tourismvolunteering.com.au
To find out more about volunteering visit www.volunteeringqld.org.au
Volunteers Needed for the Drovers Camp, Camooweal, QLD:
Do you have your own campervan or motorhome? The Drovers Camp is a small non profit org based in Camooweal, NW Qld preserving the droving history of Australia (check us out on www.droverscamp.com.au).
We are looking for volunteers to help with running of small, informal group guided tours through our memorabilia shed 8am - 5pm. Or are you a retired tradesperson who can do small jobs around the site? We can offer free of charge a powered site, hot and cold water with showers and toilets. While you are here we can show you around Camooweal and surrounds. Camooweal is a great place to pull up stumps for a while on your way to or from the NT.
Applicants will be required to undergo a Criminal History Check by the Qld and Federal Police. If you are interested please call Liz on 07 4748 2022 or email info.droverscamp.com.au
Truck Museum Project, Winton, QLD:
A number of trucking enthusiasts are developing a Heritage Truck & Machinery Museum here in Winton. The Association is a community based, volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of Australia’s road transport heritage and adding another interesting attraction to Winton’s thriving tourism industry.
The Association is seeking volunteers who are interested in the preservation of vehicles or machinery, experience as a curator for the collation of workshop manuals, memorabilia and photographs, boilermakers, sign writers and painters.
If you are interested, please contact Robyn Stephens on 0429 806 140 or outbackfestival@bigpond.com
General Volunteering Links
The Centre for Volunteering: Vounteering in NSW
Conservation Volunteers Australia
Volunteering Western Australia: Volunteering in W.A
Variety Queensland: The Children's Charity
Volunteering Australia: A national service for recruitment and deployment of volunteers
www.frontierservices.org/outbacklinks
www.tourismvolunteering.com.au