Celebrating Our Cultural Diversity
From NSW Government, Multicultural NSW: The Multicultural NSW Celebrating Diversity Grants Program aims to foster community harmony and celebrate cultural diversity as an important part ...
National Volunteering Conference 2020
The National Volunteering Conference is a biennial event for not-for-profit and government leaders, managers of volunteers, researchers, policy makers, and corporate social responsibility professionals to ...
November 5 is International Volunteer Managers Day
2019 marks the 20th time International Volunteer Managers Day (IVMDay) has been celebrated. This year the theme is “Change the Tune”. The IMVDay committee says, ...
Best practice for Illawarra and Shoalhaven volunteers
Palliative Care Volunteers from across the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District recently attended an Education Day. On September 11, over 40 volunteers met in Berry ...
Mid-north coast turn out for Accidental Counsellor training.
It was a full workshop for the Accidental Counsellor workshop delivered on Tuesday October 24 at Coffs Harbour. Mirna Tarrabay facilitated the group with a ...
NALAG Volunteer Coordinator role up for grabs in Dubbo
Are you looking for a role in grief counselling and volunteer coordination? The National Association for Loss and Grief (NSW) is looking for an intake ...
Palliative Care Service quilts a chance to say thanks and remember
As the sun shone and the first hint of summer breezes blew on Saturday, the garden at Zona was full for a different kind of ...
Carer Support Workshop for Central Coast
This week is National Carers Week. Are you interested in setting up a Carer Support Group? Carers NSW Setting Up a Carer Support Group workshop ...
Solace Volunteer Receives Award
A South Peakhurst resident who has given more than 30 years’ service to the volunteer Solace NSW Association, along with other activities, has been awarded ...
National Carers Week
A reminder that this week is National Carers Week. Careers NSW Australia tells us: National Carers week is about recognising and celebrating the outstanding contribution ...
Age is a Dream Photo Contest – Winner announced!
Thanks to all the entrants for the Age is a Dream Competition with Palliative Care NSW Volunteer Support Services Program in recognition of World Hospice ...
Mental Health & Grief & Loss Weekend
TODAY IS WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY! A day to have compassion and listen, have courage and talk and to shed a positive light on mental ...
Biography Training Day
Palliative Care NSW Volunteer Support Service was proud to present another biography-writing workshop on Monday September 30 with Sacred Heart Community Palliative Care Biography Service. ...
Eurobodalla health expo
The Eurobodalla Health Service is putting on a free expo on Saturday 12 October. Residents and visitors are welcome to attend. It will showcase local ...
AGE IS A DREAM – LAST CHANCE
HURRY! Click here to enter. AGE IS A DREAM PHOTO COMPETITION Extended to Tuesday Oct 1! ..For each age is a dream that is dying, ...
Interested in a PhD scholarship to study palliative care biography?
Eastern Palliative Care (Victoria) have partnered with La Trobe University to offer a scholarship to study palliative care biography at a PhD level. This prestigious ...
Dementia Action Week
Formerly Dementia Awareness Month, this year Dementia Australia is bringing you Dementia Action Week from the 16 to 22 September to include World Alzheimer’s Day ...
The tortured volunteer manager syndrome
Do we, leaders of volunteers suffer from a tortured volunteer manager syndrome? Or, are all our frustrations something we made up? The tortured artist syndrome ...
Accidental Counsellor workshop – Mid-north coast
Finding out you have a terminal illness or having a loved one diagnosed with one is never what you want to hear. The struggle to ...
Visiting Professor to lecture on the social organisation of end of life care
Urgent questions are raised by the major challenges of our “ageing” societies’ organisation of care: frailty, dementia, social isolation, families’ decreasing capacity to care, care ...