News & Announcements
Tassie volunteer nominated for National Landcare Award
Huon Valley’s Desley Kippax’s role and achievements with the Cygnet Junior Landcare and Port Cygnet Land and Watercare Groups has seen her nominated for a 2010 National Landcare Award: the Australian Government Individual Landcarer Award.Since 1997 Desley has been a driving member of Landcare in the region and founded the Cygnet Junior Landcare Group. In 2002 this group combined with two other groups to become Port Cygnet Land and Watercare and Desley took on the roles of coordinator and treasurer. Desley has encouraged participation and provided a level of continuity for Landcaring in the Cygnet area for twelve years.
Desley is one of 88 finalists in the National Landcare Awards to be announced in Canberra on 24 June 2010. Commencing in 1991, the Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and groups that make a valuable contribution to the land and coast where they live and work.
National Volunteer Week 2010 - a success!
This year there were hundreds of volunteer information and 'thank you' events around the state. National Volunteer Week was launched in Tasmania with a breakfast in Launceston on Monday 10 May. Professor David Adams, Social Inclusion Commissioner for Tasmania, spoke on this year's theme 'Now More Than Ever', reminding us that the overall rate of Tasmanian participation in volunteering is one of the highest in the nation, and highlighting several continuing trends including changing patterns in volunteering, increased professionalism and regulation of volunteering and of course a hot topic - ageing demographics of volunteers. To read his full speech click here. Thank you once again to everybody who got involved in this year's National Volunteer Week.
Golden Gurus
Check out the Golden Gurus program, which provides mature age Australians (aged 50 years and over) with a range of opportunities to support community organisations and small businesses. More information available on the Golden Guru Fact Sheet and the Golden Guru Overview.Do you want to join the Golden Gurus community?Volunteer Rights Inquiry
England is to hold an Inquiry to examine the issues and potential solutions around the subject of volunteer rights. http://ow.ly/WdpICommunity Achievement Awards 2009
Awards Presentation, 14 November 2009, Hotel Grand Chancellor, HobartVolunteering Tasmania is proud to be a sponsor of the Volunteering Award category and to be recognising those people who make a positive difference in our community.
The winner of this year's Volunteer Award is the Centacare IHSS Program.
www.centacaretas.org.au
The Volunteering Tasmania Volunteering Award is about recognising those organisations that value volunteering enough to take that commitment and turn it into action by effectively recruiting, coordinating, supporting, training and managing volunteers. This award is about acknowledging those organisations that uphold and enhance the spirit of volunteering in the work that they do.
2009 National Survey of Volunteering Issues - Report
The annual National Survey of Volunteering Issues conducted by Volunteering Australia provides an insight into the issues that affect volunteering in Australia.The full report is available for download from the Volunteering Australia website.
Volunteer Connect
Volunteering Tasmania has launched Volunteer Connect. This new initiative aims to make it easier for people to find volunteer positions and for organisations to recruit volunteers.At the heart of Volunteer Connect is a website and dynamic database which can be accessed through any computer with an internet connection.
Through the website, volunteers can search for vacacies on the database and organisations can place advertisements for volunteer positions - for FREE.
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Volunteering Tasmania in partnership with local communities is establishing sites where support and assistance will be available to individuals seeking volunteering information. Current sites include Huon Linc, Geeveston Online Access Centre and Ravenswood Neighbourhood House.
Review of Volunteering Australia Services
[read more...]Volunteering Australia's response to the Australian Government's National Compact Consultation Paper
As part of the Australian Government’s Social Inclusion agenda, it has released a consultation paper titled National Compact Consultation Paper learn, work, engage, have a voice. The paper discusses the new relationship between the Australian Government and the Third Sector.
To find out more about the National Compact visit
Volunteering Tasmania contributed to a response to the Compact, collated by Volunteering Australia. To view Volunteering Australia's response to the Compact click here
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