Volunteer grants now open
The Australian Government is inviting applications via an open process to apply for funding to support volunteers under the Volunteer Grants Activity. Volunteer Grants aim ...
Dying to Know celebrated at Wauchope Palliative Care
Dying to Know Day 8th August 2018 The Wauchope District Memorial Hospital is celebrating this year’s Dying to Know Day by holding a forum on ...
Broken Hill Community Palliative Care Volunteers complete Induction Training
Far West LHD Palliative Care Service is pleased to announce that the first intake of Community Palliative Care Volunteers have completed the 25 hour Induction ...
Do Something! Day
Wednesday 25 July is Do Something! Day. Supported by the DoSomething charity, Do Domething! Day challenges people to get involved with their local community by ...
NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards: Nominations close Friday
Nominations for the 2018 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards close this Friday so get your nominations in quickly. Volunteers make a significant contribution to ...
Vicarious Trauma: Creating Resilience – webinar
12th July 2018, 2-3pm. A one-hour webinar ($55) on Vicarious Trauma is being offered by Adam Blanch, Trauma Psychologist with Good Psychology. The event has ...
Suffering, connection & authenticity: Palliative Care seminar keeps it real in Warilla
About 60 people gathered in Warilla (near Port Kembla) yesterday 19th June to attend our Being Present: Spirituality, disruption and reflection in Palliative Care seminar. ...
Hospice Neighbours: Changing how community volunteers provide support
Barbara Gale has been involved in end of life care in the UK since the 1980s and has been Chief Executive of St Nicholas’ Hospice ...
NSW contributes to an international perspective of volunteering
It’s here! A recently released book by Oxford University Press The Changing Face of Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care: An international perspective features a ...
Volunteers introduce reverie harp to Camden palliative care
See the original story by Jess Layt in the Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser Therapeutic harp to lift spirits at Camden Palliative Care Unit. The soothing sounds ...
What Matters Most: Empathy, community and inspired care in the Tweed
From the original article Tweed's passion for palliative care by Aisling Brennan in the Tweed Daily News Wedgetail Retreat Hospice holds a special place in ...
Doing it better for their community: New volunteers sought in Wagga Wagga
Read the original article by Jody Lindbeck in the Daily Advertiser. When Joy McGregor lost her husband, and then her sister-in-law, to illness she was ...
Volunteers keeping the faith with their community in Tamworth
Sue Dykes heads up the palliative care volunteer team with Northwest Care based out of Northwest Church in Tamworth. Northwest Care introduced palliative care volunteers ...
Volunteers dip into Salsa for National Volunteer Week
Click here to see the original story in The Pulse. Volunteers from Blacktown Hospital’s palliative and supportive care service salsa danced their kind and generous ...
Volunteer Managers gather for inaugural 2 day Conference in Shoalhaven
Palliative care volunteer managers start arriving today at Coolangatta Estate in the Shoalhaven for a 2 day conference on volunteer management. The inaugural Palliative Care ...
Free one day palliative care seminar rich in spirituality and art
There are only two profound spiritual questions: What’s happening? And what matters? You and I aren’t there to give them answers…but we can be there ...
Port Macquarie seminar – Being Present: Spirituality, Art and Experience in Palliative Care
Palliative Care NSW in conjunction with the Port Macquarie/Hastings Palliative Care Volunteer Service will be hosting a one-day seminar on Wednesday May 2 in beautiful ...
Great Lakes Hospice leader steps aside after 19 years
Elizabeth Fisher OAM recently stepped aside from the position of President of Great Lakes Hospice having held the position for 19 years from 1997. Prior ...
Register your interest now for the third Dying2Learn MOOC
Flinders University are set to press go on the Dying2Learn MOOC for the third time. Participation in the MOOC, or Massive Open Online Course, is ...
Tenderly: What can end-of-life care learn from after-death care?
Nestled into the former Fire Station at Port Kembla is Tender Funerals, a community initiative that deliberately aims to offer a greater level of involvement ...