Volunteering

What is volunteering?

Volunteering Australia defines volunteering as time willingly given for the common good without financial gain.

The benefits of volunteering are enormous for you and your community. The right match can help you find friends, connect with the community, learn new skills, and can even help advance your career.

Council recognises and celebrates the immense volunteering spirit that exists in our communities.

Locally, there are many opportunities to volunteer in community activities including sport, emergency services, animal welfare, charities, assisting vulnerable people, arts and culture, and the environment.

Find something you are passionate about, then search out the opportunity. Volunteer doing something you'll love. There's a role to suit everybody.

A range of resources are available to help people who want to get involved, find new opportunities, or develop their skills as a volunteer. Scroll on for more information.

Volunteering at Snowy Monaro Regional Council

Council engages volunteers across a range of services and programs.

Opportunities include

  • Section 355 Committees, providing advice to Council on a range of community issues such as arts and culture, tourism, reserves, support services, and more

  • Meals on Wheels, delivering meals to older people and people with a disability

  • Community transport, driving individuals and groups to medical and other appointments across the region

  • Library services, assisting librarians to sort, maintain and re-shelve items

  • Maintaining halls, cemeteries and other public facilities

Volunteers undertake such activities without monetary reward to support the community and make new connections.

The activities undertaken are of benefit to Council and the local community and complement the services and programs provided by paid staff.

Volunteering with Council is a great way to get involved, have your say in issues which are important to you and to contribute to the community. It is also an important way that Council seeks feedback and communication with the community.

For more information on volunteering with Council, please contact us.

 

 

Volunteering in our community

  • Sign up to support your community in times of emergency through local branches of the Rural Fire Service (RFS) or State Emergency Service (SES)

  • Get in contact with your local community garden, help design and plant next season's crop

  • Join a service club like CWA, Lions, or Rotary and make a difference on a local level with clubs and branches in many of the region's towns and villages

Group photograph from Volunteer Week Morning Tea

Current opportunities

We're urgently seeking volunteer community transport drivers in the Bombala area.

Email us now or fill in the form below to register your interest or find out more.

VOLUNTEER TO BE A BOMBALA COMMUNITY TRANSPORT DRIVER
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