Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thanks for being part of VolunteerHub in 2016 and all the best for Christmas and the New Year. Many parts of inland NSW were inundated ...
2016: The year that was
During 2016 we farewelled the Toronto based volunteer service Westlakes Palliative Volunteers Group and their Coordinator Helen Harvie. Westlakes started in 1987 and continued as ...
Volunteers fill Liverpool Hospital with songs from yesteryear
Read the original story by Stacy Thomas in the Liverpool Leader. Singers are filling the Liverpool Hospital palliative care ward with songs from yesteryear. The ...
Volunteer leader on the Central Coast looks to the future
Heading up the Palliative Care volunteer service on the Central Coast, Ellen Smith says she wants to bring something of herself into the world of ...
Intellectual Disability and palliative care in Europe
Today, 3 December, is International Day of People with a Disability. The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) in 2015 released a White Paper on providing ...
All the best to NSW Volunteer of the Year Award finalists!
To all the finalists who will be attending the NSW Centre for Volunteering’s Gala Award ceremony today for the 2017 NSW Volunteer of the Year ...
International AIDS Day: Remembering the volunteer response
From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s volunteers from AIDS and other organisations rallied to support those suffering and dying from AIDS. The initial focus of care ...
Volunteer agreements work for aged care and students in Holland
In a novel initiative commenced in 2012 university students in Holland have been offered free rent in exchange for their time spent with residents in ...
Volunteers & amendments to Working with Children laws
Amendments were introduced recently to the Act behind the Working With Children (WWC) Check in NSW. The WWC Check is a requirement for people who ...
Alcohol related liver disease, homelessness and volunteers
Alcohol related liver disease is one cause of organ failure, and liver disease is one of the top 5 causes of death in the UK. ...
Update – DSS Volunteer Grants 2016 now open!
The Department of Social Security offers Strengthening Communities Volunteer Grants to organisations that support volunteers. Their 2016 Grant Round opened on the 8th of November ...
New to volunteer management? Check out our guidance manual
‘Palliative Care Volunteer Services: Guidance for managers‘ (2016) offers tips and guidance on the role of the manager, as well as brief information about the ...
International Volunteer Managers Day 5th November
November 5th is International Volunteer Managers Day, a day that recognises the contribution of Volunteer Managers in mobilising and inspiring volunteer effort. The International Volunteer ...
Bereavement Support Standards for Specialist Palliative Care Services
From the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement: Following funding from the Victorian Government Department of Health, the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, in ...
Study of community volunteers reveals need for palliative care training
Volunteers work with some of our most vulnerable people. We see them in the streets, in our homes and our shopping malls. They might deliver ...
Defining volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Europe: an EAPC White Paper
Anne Goossesnen, Jos Somsen, Ros Scott and Leena Pelttari, members of the EAPC Task Force on Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care, have published a ...