What's in it for you?

• Personal & professional growth
• Giving back to your community
• Learning new skills and experiencing new things
• Meeting new people and making new friends
• Training and development opportunities
• Knowing that by volunteering you really are making a difference!

Volunteering

There are many ways of helping Lifeline. Volunteers can make a real difference in the community - in both counselling and non-counselling roles.

Telephone Crisis Support Volunteers

Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury is one of 42 centres around Australia providing volunteers to answer the 13 11 14 crisis support line 24 hours a day, every day of the year. At our centre, we have around 180 active volunteer Telephone Crisis Supporters and the team answers more than 34,000 calls each year.

With the ever increasing stresses of daily life and increasing numbers of calls, there is always a need for more telephone crisis supporters to assist callers with a wide variety of issues, including loneliness, relationships, domestic violence, abuse, gambling, drugs and alcohol mental health and suicide.

Learn about Telephone Crisis Support Training!

Volunteer Face-to-Face Counsellors

Lifeline face-to-face personal counsellors are also volunteers, who have been trained externally and accredited with CAPA, AASW or APS. The team works with an eclectic approach to counselling underpinned with a Rogerian philosophy. To find out about volunteering, email or phone Gabrielle (the face-to-face service co-ordinator) on 9498 8805.

Some companies provide their staff for a day of community service each year. These teams are set to work on various projects such as bookfair help or painting our recycling bins.

'Op' Shop Volunteers

Our shops in Asquith and Epping raise vital funds in support of our services.

If you have some time to spare, we are currently looking for shop volunteers- call Aeran on 9476 5876 or Sophie on 9869 7868 for information.

Bookfair Volunteers

We have several bookfairs which are Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury's major fundraising events each year. More than 100,000 donated books are individually priced and sorted into more than 50 categories. New volunteers are welcome to help sort books in the months prior to the bookfairs & to help during the bookfairs during the year.

If you have an interest in books and a few hours to spare occasionally or regularly, enquire about joining our friendly bookfair team.

Other Volunteers

There are many other areas to help in. These include:

• become a community aid volunteer - helping the frail aged, or disabled people, to get to medical appointments
• joining a fundraising committee
• assisting in our shops at Asquith or Epping

... and much more. Mostly people volunteer a few hours each week or fortnight.

Volunteer Positions

All volunteer positions with Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury are advertised at our eRecruit Centre

For more information, please contact us.