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Holiday Volunteering

5 Dec 2016 | Articles

The Volunteering Auckland office will be closed for the Christmas holidays from Friday, 16th December 2016 to Monday, 16th January 2017. If you are lo...

Annual Report 2016

1 Dec 2016 | Annual Reports

Our 2016 Annual Report is now available for download.

Charity Viewpoint 2016

5 Oct 2016 | Articles

Volunteers may come for free ... but they don't come for nothing! Volunteering costs! Investing in volunteer programme infrastructure will bring ben...

Transformative Volunteering

31 Aug 2016 | Articles

Volunteering ... develop and strengthen empathy through experience for your corporate staff.

Three key steps to developing meaningful volunteer roles

31 Aug 2016 | Articles

Attempting to recruit volunteers without first having developed worthwhile positions to offer them is equivalent to attempting to sell a product to pe...

Time Poor ... Passion Rich!

7 Jul 2016 | Articles

The Non Profit Satellite Accounts 2013 Report launched this month shows once again how vital volunteers are to our communities!

Matching People to Voluntary Opportunities

27 May 2016 | Articles

Is there a disconnect between what people want to volunteer for and what NGOs are offering as voluntary opportunities?

Are we "Just" Volunteers?

16 May 2016 | Articles

I'm just a volunteer! or ... I am a VOLUNTEER! Which culture do you have in your organisation or where you volunteer?

Boost Engagement on your Volunteering Platform

9 May 2016 | Articles

Great ideas on how to get your staff to be involved in volunteering ...

Migrants and their choice in Volunteering

18 Apr 2016 | Articles

Migrants are continuing to see that volunteering has a place in their busy lives ... an analytical comparison between 2012 and 2015.


Volunteer Stories

Lending a sustainable hand

Kelmarna Gardens is a community space where cool people from all walks of life come to enjoy the outdoors and lend a hand