PCNSW Appoints Communications Officer
Palliative Care NSW is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Carolyn Frichot as Communications Officer. Carolyn has been appointed to assist the team in ...
Resource Hub for Volunteer Managers
Volunteering Australia has launched an online Volunteering Resource Hub to help anyone who helps manage, lead or coordinate Australia’s almost six million volunteers. The Volunteering Resource Hub ...
COVID vax for volunteers
The Australian COVID-19 vaccination program officially commenced on Monday 22 February 2021. The national roll-out strategy identifies priority populations who will receive the vaccine in ...
National Volunteer Week 2021
National Volunteer Week2021 is held from 17 – 23 May. This is the time when we can recognise the celebrate the enormous contribution volunteers make ...
Grieve 2021
Each year since 2013 the Hunter Writers Centre has hosted a writing project in honour of Grief Awareness Month. Palliative Care NSW is proud to ...
EOI for 2021 Volunteer Grants Program
The Australian Government is inviting organisations via a restricted non-competitive process to apply for a Volunteer Grant under the Families and Communities Program – Volunteer ...
PCNSW Education Symposia
Palliative Care NSW is pleased to announce our Education Symposia is open for registration! These live presentations will be hosted via our online platform and ...
Mt Druitt Supportive and Palliative Care Unit welcomes back volunteers
After a 12-month suspension of face-to-face volunteering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supportive Care volunteer team is back visiting patients at the Mt Druitt ...
Who here could benefit from a little inspiration?
Yesterday we held the first quarterly meeting for 2021 of the NSW Network of Managers of Palliative Care Volunteers. A big thanks to all of ...
Advance Care Planning Week 2021
Plan for the best. March 22 – 26 is National Advance Care Planning Week. Important life choices are planned, not left to chance. National Advance ...
2021 LOHVE Benchmark survey now open
Sharon Walsh from the The Leaders of Health Volunteer Engagement (LOHVE) Network has been gathering industry specific data on health volunteer programs every year for ...
Second session – Resilience in the face of adversity
The second session of the very popular “Resilience in the face of adversity” workshop has been confirmed. The first session held on January 28 was ...
ClubGRANTS is back
ClubGRANTS is one of Australia’s largest grant programs, providing more than $100 million each year to charities, sporting organisations and not-for-profit community groups. Since 1998, ...
The NSW State of Volunteering Survey is now open
The Centre for Volunteering, in partnership with the Department of Communities and Justice, is excited to be producing the inaugural NSW State of Volunteering report. ...
Online palliative care training
With many palliative care volunteer services operating at a reduced capacity, many volunteer managers are looking for ways to keep their volunteers engaged. This educational ...
Volunteering sector hit hard during COVID
A media release by Volunteering Australia earlier today details the significant impacts the global pandemic has made on the volunteering sector reporting that 72% of ...
Volunteers are welcomed back at Gosford and Wyong Hospitals
Volunteers were given the greenlight to recommence duties following further easing of COVID-19 restrictions across the state, with staff, patients and visitors delighted with their ...
Online workshop – Supporting those before and after a death
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 9 – stay tuned for updated information While we are aware that death ...
Resilience isn’t futile
Palliative Care NSW ran it’s first online Zoom workshop for volunteers yesterday, “Resilience in the face of adversity”. Our presenter was Mirna Tarabay who has ...
Volunteering Australia lobbies govt to better support volunteering
The COVID19 pandemic has made a huge impact on volunteering. Research commissioned by Volunteering Australia showed that two out of every three volunteers were unable ...