Australian Red Cross

The Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement is the world's largest voluntary organisation, whose contribution through their multitude of services is invaluable. Each year Red Cross volunteers serve more than 200 million vulnerable people worldwide, symbolising The Power of Humanity.

By becoming a volunteer you have an opportunity to contribute to the humanitarian efforts of Red Cross at home and abroad. You'll also be providing real support to an organisation that is respected the world over for its outstanding service to humanity.

Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a Queensland Government department with the role of managing climate change and protecting the environment. Their mission is to provide environmentally sustainable solutions for Queensland’s future through leadership in:

• Conserving Queensland’s landscapes;
• Enabling sustainable development;
• Improving business and industry’s environmental performance; and
• Building community knowledge and participation.

Conserving the state's native wildlife and managing national parks and other protected areas is the responsibility of Queensland Parks & Wildlife (QPW). Helping QPW meet this challenge is a large team of volunteers. As a QPW volunteer, you might:

• Care for and rehabilitate sick, injured or orphaned animals;
• Survey frogs in our tropical rainforests;
• Plant native trees along wildlife corridors;
• Help tag nesting sea turtles;
• Provide information to help visitors enjoy Queensland's protected areas such as national parks and World Heritage areas;
• Take overseas visitors or school students on guided nature walks;
• Join a NatureSearch team and survey the native plants and animals in your local area;
• Record migratory wading birds along our coasts; or
• Restore degraded land to a more natural state.

Indigenous Community Volunteers

Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that offers wide support to Indigenous communities to pursue their community development goals in their own way. The aim is to make a difference by providing volunteers who can transfer their skills to people in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in approved short term projects.

Police-Citizens Youth Clubs

Police-Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYC) Queensland in partnership with the government, community, and business achieve excellence in youth development, through the provision of recreational, sporting, cultural and welfare programs.

PCYC Queensland would not be able to offer their vast range of services without volunteers. Over 2,000 volunteers dedicated around 200,000 hours of their time last year to make a positive contribution to the future of countless young Queenslanders.

Queensland Council of Parents and Citizens’ Associations

All state schools offer opportunities for parents to join a Parents and Citizens' (P&C) Association which involves a variety of school activities from policy to financial planning, tuck shops to fundraising, school functions to out-of-school-hours care. The Queensland Council of Parents and Citizens' Associations is a nonprofit organisation which has represented the interests of P&C Associations throughout Queensland for more than 60 years. Approximately 1300 P&C Associations are affiliated.

Queensland Water and Land Carers

Queensland Water and Land Carers (QWaLC) is funded by the Department of Natural Resources and Water as the peak body for natural resource management groups in Queensland. This includes supporting Landcare groups, but encompasses any group involved in on-ground environmental work and all NRM volunteers. QWaLC fulfils the roles of advocacy, representation, networking, promotion, insurance on behalf of its membership of over 23,000 people.

Sport and Recreation Queensland

Sport and Recreation Queensland is proactively working towards helping Queenslanders become more active. As the lead agency responsible for implementing the Queensland Government's sport and recreation policies, Sport and Recreation Queensland works with sporting organisations, councils, schools, Indigenous organisations and the wider community to increase participation, develop skills in the industry and create better places and opportunities for sport and recreation.

State Emergency Services

The State Emergency Service (SES) is a volunteer organisation, established by an Act of Parliament in 1975. Under the Act, every local authority in Queensland is responsible for maintaining SES Units within their communities. The SES Units are made up of local people who have volunteered to prepare themselves and their communities to minimise the effects of a disaster. SES volunteers do not receive payment. Under the motto, "Be Aware", the basic concept of the SES is to encourage self-help and mutual assistance within each community. The SES Units support the statutory services (Police, Fire and Ambulance) where an emergency or disaster is beyond the resources of those services.

Tourism Queensland

Tourism Queensland is a statutory authority of the Queensland Government and is the most progressive destination management organisation in Australia. Visitor Information Centres play an important role, making a significant economic contribution to tourism, particularly in regional areas, by providing information to visitors that encourages them to stay longer, spend more money, experience more attractions and revisit a region. Visitor information centres also create significant social benefits, as they often rely heavily on a volunteer workforce and operate as an important community facility.

Youth Mentoring Network

The Youth Mentoring Network is an initiative of the National Youth Mentoring Partnership which consists of four not-for profit organisations (The Smith Family, Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia and Job Futures) and the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. The Youth Mentoring Network aims to work with interested youth mentoring organisations and practitioners to foster the growth and development of high quality mentoring programs for young people in Australia by providing a national base of collaboration, support, guidance and expertise.

United Nations Volunteers

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program is the UN organisation that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. UNV advocates for recognition of volunteers, works with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilises an increasing number and diversity of volunteers, including experienced UNV volunteers, throughout the world. UNV embraces volunteerism as universal and inclusive, and recognises volunteerism in its diversity as well as the values that sustain it: free will, commitment, engagement and solidarity.