Volunteer Expo 2026
Discover your next volunteer opportunity!
Step into a world of opportunities at our Volunteer Expo, where you can meet a diverse range of community organisations, charities, and volunteer groups all in one place. Wander through the exhibitor displays, strike up a conversation, ask questions, and explore the causes that inspire you most.
When you arrive at the Auckland Netball Centre, you'll receive a handy Volunteer Expo Guide packed with information and contact details for every exhibitor. Take it home, share it with family and friends, and keep it as your roadmap to making a difference long after the event ends.
Not sure where to start? We've made it easy to find opportunities that match your interests and skills. Exhibitors will be grouped in areas by type of opportunity to help you quickly identify the types of roles they offer and the people they're looking for. You can also click the “+” on this page to learn more about each organisation before you visit.
Volunteering is for everyone and we want the Expo to be enjoyable for the whole family. A children’s play area will be available, giving younger visitors a fun space to play.
Come curious. Leave inspired. Find the volunteer role that's right for you. Check out the list of exhibitors below.
Civic
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AECN enriches Auckland East communities by creating wider and deeper connections between non-profit groups and active volunteers, primarily through monthly Network meetings, projects, events and funding support services.
Volunteers are welcome to join our AECN event and project crews, our AECN committee, and those Network groups who need more active volunteers.
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Active since 2012, MBSJRA has helped to shape a vibrant and thriving community through advocacy, local improvements, and consistent communication with the community, the Local Board and Councillors. Recent initiatives include community engagement on PC120, speed safety advocacy, recycling drop-offs, creating a community memorial and ongoing advocacy for transport choice.
Volunteer opportunities with MBSJRA allow residents to actively shape their community. You can join the committee to advocate for and support local initiatives. Volunteers also help organise community meetings, draft council advocacy submissions, engage with the Local Board and support a range of neighbourhood initiatives.
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Neighbourhood Support New Zealand is a nationwide community-led movement bringing people together to create safe, resilient and connected communities.
As a volunteer, you will be in the community helping at local events, attending street meet-ups, informing people about Adopt-A-Drain and joining street beautification projects.
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The Ōrākei Local Board represents local communities within Auckland Council and makes decisions on local parks, libraries, community facilities, environmental programmes, events, and neighbourhood improvements. It advocates for transport, infrastructure, and community priorities, allocates local funding, and works with residents, mana whenua, and organisations to create thriving, connected, and resilient communities.
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We provide an avenue for members of the local community to be informed about developments which will affect them. We also provide a channel through community views can be shared with the Local Board and Auckland Council.
We meet as a Committee 3-4 times a year to discuss recent events and how best to respond. We also hold 1-2 public meetings each year in which we facilitate engagement with the local community on issue of concern and interest.
Environment
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ASG is working with communities across Auckland to promote sustainability through waste reduction, recycling education, repair initiatives, food waste prevention, and practical workshops. We engage diverse communities, share knowledge, encourage behaviour change, and support people to adopt simple everyday actions that protect the environment and create a more sustainable future.
ASG welcomes volunteers to support Repair Café events by sharing skills, assisting with repairs, welcoming participants, helping with event setup, and promoting reuse and waste reduction. Volunteers play an important role in creating a community space where people can learn repair skills, reduce landfill waste, and contribute to a more sustainable Auckland.
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Bike Eastern Suburbs aims to bring together our cycling community. We advocate for safer cycling infrastructure and run events including the Love Your Path working bees, maintaining the Glen Innes to St Johns Shared Path. We work closely with Active Apirana, to help bring mountain bike trails to our neighbourhood. Join Bike Eastern Suburbs to make cycling safer in our community! Volunteer with Love Your Path to maintain our local shared paths or help Active Apirana maintain family-friendly mountain bike trails at Apirana Reserve. Meet like-minded people transforming community spaces. Sign up today to build a better bike network!
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We collect and recycle foil potato chip packets, transforming them into thermal survival blankets, helping those who need it most.
According to StatsNZ there are 57,000 women and 52,000 men living rough RIGHT NOW. We need your help to get blankets made and into people hands.
Volunteer opportunities include: Hands on creating thermal blankets, sleeping bag covers and pouches for distribution
Deliveries (van provided)
Workshop facilitation
Admin (EOY accounts and correspondence)
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Conservation Volunteers New Zealand works across Auckland to restore native habitats, improve waterways and connect people with nature. Through hands-on conservation projects, we engage volunteers in activities such as freeing up young native plants from invasive plants, predator control, working in our nurseries, and planting native species.
Volunteers can get involved by freeing up young native plants, joining our predator control programme, propagating seedlings in our nurseries, planting native species, and joining other community conservation activities. No experience is necessary, and opportunities are available for individuals, families, students, corporate groups and community organisations throughout Auckland.
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The Trust is undertaking the ecological restoration of Motuihe Island by restoring, enhancing and protecting the indigenous flora and fauna and to provide opportunities for interpreted conservation, heritage and educational experience.
Volunteers will be provided with opportunities to participate in weeding, track maintenance, nursery work, kiosk coverage, rare plant project, monitoring of Kiwi, Wetapunga, Geckos, bird surveys, NZ Dotterel, Little Blue Penguin, Fluttering Shearwater.
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The Trust provides opportunities for people of all ages to get actively involved in conservation through ecological restoration work on Motutapu in the Hauraki Gulf. Create a lasting legacy by helping propagate seedlings in our native plant nursery, plant native trees and undertake weed control in the regenerating forest.
We hold volunteer workdays during the week and at weekends for individuals, families, corporate teams and community groups. No experience necessary, and regular or occasional volunteers welcome. Enjoy a day out on the beautiful Hauraki Gulf while doing valuable hands-on work. Overnight volunteer camps are also held from time to time.
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Ngā Kaitiaki Hapori o Pourewa (The Community Guardians of Pourewa) is a community-led network that coordinates environmental restoration and community engagement across the Pourewa Valley. Working with mana whenua, volunteers, schools, community groups, and partner organisations, it restores and protects the valley's forests, streams, biodiversity, and through collaborative stewardship.
Volunteers can join weekday or weekend working bees across the Pourewa Valley, including Selwyn Bush with Pourewa Restoration Group, Kepa Bush with Friends of Kepa Bush and the Eastern Bays Songbird Project.
Activities include seasonal planting, rescuing native plants from invasive weeds, and light track maintenance.
Sessions: Wednesdays, 8:30 am–12 pm; Sundays, 9–11am.
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We’re a busy Community Recycling Centre offering unique second-hand and upcycled treasures in our Reuse Shop, as well recycling services on site and inorganics redistribution. We’re also home to a vibrant community of reuse artists, upcyclers and volunteers who are committed to growing the circular economy in Aotearoa.
Volunteering with us could look like regular days assisting with operations in our reuse shop to one off days helping bring workshops and events to life for our community. We also have volunteers helping with e-waste deconstruction and joining the Chip Packet Project in their mission to keep kiwis warm.
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We run two projects in the Howick Ward area. We provide a free possum trap loan service to households on request. We have a large mustelid (weasel, stoat, ferret) trapping network in private properties around the coast line and up the Mangemangeroa Valley.
We always wish to expand our mustelid trapping network. You wil be trained in how to use our DOC200/250 traps safely before performing trap checks alone. The time commitment is up to half a day per month, and timing is completely flexible. Driving license and own transport are essential.
Food and Gardens
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We spread kindness through home-baking, so that people facing tough times feel seen and valued.
We bake and deliver to non-profits across the health, social services, food provision and community service sectors.
Are you a keen baker who can also help delivering baking to our recipient organisations?
Or are you someone who doesn’t bake but can help deliver baking to those who need it?
If so, awesome! You’d volunteer at least once a month but can tailor your volunteer preferences to suit you.
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Everybody Eats is a charity restaurant bringing the community together around great food. We rescue surplus produce destined for landfill and turn it into restaurant quality meals that are available to everyone in the community on a pay-what-you-can basis. Volunteers are vital to our kaupapa; helping the chefs with food prep in the afternoon and serving diners (or doing the dishes!) in the evening. Flexible, casual shifts available and no experience needed.
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Gift-The-Garden activates people and places to help resolve today’s environmental challenges, in a new era of living and working WITH nature for mutual health and wellbeing. Alone, each garden provides some benefit to people and nature BUT en masse, significant impact happens. Gardens are delivered by volunteers working alongside professionals.
Gift-The-Garden works in three ways:
Families ‘Gift’ their garden to nature, welcoming, sustaining
and nurturing life.The Garden ‘Gifts’ back to friends and whanau with food, joy
and wellbeing.Friends, Whanau and other key stakeholders like the
Construction Industry ‘Gift’ the garden with time, materials or funding.
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Ha’ape Mata Mei Langi ‘O Glen Innes is a welcoming group for elderly, disabled, and underprivileged members of the Tongan community. They meet every week at the Glen Innes Community Hall to connect, support one another, and improve their overall wellbeing.
Each weekly gathering includes prayer, singing, gentle exercise, arts and crafts, gardening, and other enjoyable activities. The group also encourages learning new life skills, such as using public transport to help members become more confident and independent. They regularly join activities with other community groups to share experiences, make new connections, and learn together. The group also takes part in local events, including celebrating Tongan Language Week with the Glen Innes Library and Te Oro Music and Arts Centre.
Volunteers are always welcome to join the group. Whether you can help with exercise sessions, healthy eating, arts and crafts, sewing, gardening, or share your knowledge and skills, your time and support can make a meaningful difference while providing a rewarding experience for everyone involved.
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The community garden, located behind the Meadowbank Community Centre, is a vibrant community space where people of all ages and backgrounds can grow vegetables and fruit, learn and share gardening skills, make new connections, and cultivate a stronger, more connected community.
The community garden is run by volunteers, who help with everything from weeding and seed sowing to planting, watering, fertilising, and harvesting. No matter your level of gardening experience, you're warmly welcome to get involved. Come and help us grow, learn, and share as a community.
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Health
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Gig Buddies is an initiative that provides opportunities for social connection through live events. We match neuro diverse individuals with a volunteer who shares the same interests and passions, so they can go to events they both enjoy, together. Once paired, buddies go out together at least once a month.
A Gig Buddies volunteer is someone who wants to expand their social circles, make friends, support a person with a disability and do fun things. Buddies are paired based on mutual interests - such as music tastes, sport and hobbies - and other factors such as location and age.
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We offer sporting opportunities for people of all ages, ability levels and ethnicities with an intellectual disability. We provide year round weekly training and regular competition in Athletics, Basketball, Powerlifting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Golf and Tenpin Bowling. Athletes gain skills and confidence, improved health and wellbeing and a sense of achievement.
All programmes, coaching and club administration are run by volunteers. We host annual ribbon days in each sport. The are opportunities within our team of volunteers to coach a sport, help at sports events and become involved in administration and governance on the club’s Board of Trustees.
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Tōtara Hospice honours living and dignifies dying by providing specialist palliative care and support to patients and their whānau across South and South-East Auckland. As a local charity, we deliver compassionate, expert care at no cost to those who need it, helping people live well with dignity and comfort.
Tōtara Hospice offers a range of rewarding opportunities across retail, fundraising, administration, hospitality, and patient support services. Whether you're welcoming visitors, assisting in our cafés and events, supporting office teams, or helping in our shops, your time, skills, and compassion help us support patients and whānau across South Auckland.
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Whānau Āwhina Plunket is a national not-for-profit organisation and New Zealand's largest provider of support services for the development, health and wellbeing of tamariki and whānau.
As a Plunket volunteer you will be supported by our amazing Community Services team. They'll help you find a volunteer role that you’d enjoy, and that works in harmony with your own family or work commitments. We have a range of roles that may work for you, from running new parent groups or playgroups, teaching early childhood education skills to teens or supporting our many fundraising events.
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Young Onset Dementia Collective creates ageappropriate opportunities for people living with dementia under to stay connected, active and contributing to their communities. Through volunteering, work-style activities, enrichment and social connection, we focus on what people can still do, creating purpose, contribution, belonging and opportunities to keep living life.
Our volunteers help make participation possible - supporting people living with younger onset dementia to volunteer, contribute, explore and stay connected. We welcome practical, social and creative people, drivers, activity supporters and those who can share skills or opportunities. You don’t need dementia experience, just openness, respect and a willingness to get involved.
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Service
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Age Concern Auckland, a charitable organisation, which serves those over 65, offering significant services across Auckland. Staffed by diverse, skilled individuals, it includes administrative, social, ethnic, ageing well, and intervention teams with health promoters, social workers, and counsellors, ensuring professional and safe community support.
Our visitors are volunteers who are keen to spend time with an older person for about an hour each week to enjoy conversation and shared interests and activities. Our volunteer visitors are from a variety of backgrounds and ages. What they have in common is warmth, friendliness and a desire to make a difference in the life of an older person.
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Athletics Auckland (AAI) is the Regional Sports body for Athletics in the Auckland Region. AAI, along with Athletics NZ is hosting the NZ Track & Field Championships in March 2027 and 2028. We are seeking volunteers in roles that include assisting with officials at Field events; escorting athletes to their event site; assisting in the Call Room, entry gate, post-event and more.
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Big Buddy matches volunteer male adults (20+) with boys who do not have a father figure or male role model in their lives. Through weekly outings, boys and their mentors share time in the community, building positive connections through shared interests and a commitment to showing up.
Our volunteer male mentors come from all across Auckland and would be involved in meeting with a boy (aged 7-13) on a weekly basis for 2-3 hours at a time. Aside from being a positive role model, there is plenty of opportunity to explore and share in interests, hobbies and community events.
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Carpoolin is a community-first ride sharing platform that makes commuting more sustainable, affordable, and connected.
Transport to many events is an afterthought, and when transport options are limited, many of us will have to look for typically-more expensive alternatives. Carpooling works, and we want to be the platform that allows these conversations to take place. One that is created for communities and making it safer by design.
Need a ride to the expo? Can you offer a ride to the expo? Sign up here.
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Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) provides free, confidential, and independent information and advice to everyone. We help people understand their rights and options across a wide range of issues, including consumer, employment, business, family, legal, health, and housing matters. CAB also offers access to clinics with registered professionals for specialist support.
As a CAB volunteer, you will be part of a supportive team and receive comprehensive training and resources. You will help clients access information and advice on a wide range of issues. Volunteers typically contribute 2–3 hours weekly and should be empathetic, respectful, and confident using computers.
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Many people with intellectual disabilities experience various forms of abuse, including physical, financial, psychological, and emotional. Citizen Advocates focus on building long-term, one-to-one relationships that empower people to have their voices heard, protect their rights, reduce social isolation, and be more included in their community.
Our volunteer advocates build genuine, long-term friendships with people who may be socially isolated, vulnerable, or facing difficult challenges. They do not make decisions for the person; instead, they walk alongside empowering people to have their voices heard, exercise their rights, and live more independently.
Flexible commitment, comprehensive training, and ongoing support are provided.
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Digital Seniors is a caring, not-for-profit organisation offering free, one-on-one technology support especially for older adults. Our friendly volunteer coaches help build digital confidence with devices like phones and laptops at our welcoming, weekly drop-in hubs across Auckland and Wellington regions.
If you love helping others succeed, we invite you to join our growing Digital Seniors team as a friendly, tech-savvy volunteer coach. By dedicating just two to three hours a week, you will provide caring support and make a truly meaningful difference in the lives of our older community members.
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We are a not-for-profit and teach English to migrants and people with a refugee background - we provide classes as well as volunteer home tutoring in all parts of Auckland.
Our vision is a cohesive society where our learners can settle well and achieve their goals. This includes feeling safe, a sense of belonging and being able to participate in and contribute to all aspects of life (social, economic, cultural and political).
Volunteer home tutoring: We are looking for volunteers to tutor people with a migrant or refugee background in English to help them settle successfully in Aotearoa New Zealand. Your commitment is to visit your learner once a week at home and tutor them for 1-2 hours.
We will support you to do this through comprehensive NZQA-approved training (free), ongoing support from a coordinator, and access to an online community of similar volunteers.
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A Mens Shed is a non-profit community space where men can gather to share skills, work on projects, and socialize in a workshop environment.
We meet every Thursday for morning tea, in Onehunga and in Glen Innes. Everyone is Welcome. All of us get to meet, chat, get to know one another and find interests. We will let everyone know about our progress towards getting land for our new sheds in Maungakiekie-Tamaki.
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When you volunteer for Red Cross, you’re becoming a member of an internationally recognised movement for good. Our mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of humanity and enhancing community resilience.
Our Meals on Wheels service supports older, ill, and disabled people living at home who would otherwise struggle to provide healthy meals for themselves. We need volunteers keen to deliver hot meals and a friendly chat, to people in need across New Zealand.
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When you volunteer for Red Cross, you’re becoming a member of an internationally recognised movement for good. Our mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of humanity and enhancing community resilience.
As a volunteer retail assistant, you’ll help create a welcoming environment for our customers. You’ll do day-to-day tasks that help the shop run smoothly, in a flexible supportive environment, serving customers in a friendly, professional way. A love for fashion and an eye for design is always a bonus!
Uber Clothing Drive: New Zealand Red Cross and Uber are holding an annual clothing drive on Saturday 17 October, 2026 to accept quality, pre-loved clothing donations for resale in Red Cross Shops. Get involved with the community and help divert goods from landfill by volunteering at this one-day outdoor event.
Website Clothing drive
Website Retail Assistant
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One World One Family New Zealand has shared over 5,200 hot meals with whānau experiencing homelessness since 2024, brings companionship to elders across five Auckland care homes, runs values workshops for tamariki, and funds life-saving heart surgeries for Pacific children. Part of a global movement across 100 countries.
Cook and share meals on Saturday nights along our Auckland city route. Visit elders in care homes for conversation and activities on weekends. Help facilitate values workshops for tamariki aged 8 to 10. Support events, fundraising, social media, and communications. No experience needed - training and aroha provided.
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Planet FM, the voice of Auckland, is a multi-lingual community radio station, broadcasting over 100 programmes in more than 30 languages since 1987. Planet FM offers live streaming from our web site, available 5 minutes after broadcast, plus regular weekly programmes on air, at 104.6 FM. Supporting communities of language and culture, reducing social isolation and promoting social cohesion, Planet FM is a not for profit organisation reflecting diverse voices across Auckland.
Planet FM offers opportunities for individuals and groups to make radio programmes and postcast series to get their messages out to their communities and the public.
Training in planning and recording programmes is provided by staff. All programmes are made by volunteers. Planet FM needs volunteers with project management skills, communications, database, and social media experience.
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Our mission is to create inclusive and empowering sports and recreation events that foster active participation, promote Turangawaewae, Manamotuhake, Hauora and Manaakitanga and to celebrate the diverse rainbow communities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific.
Are you ready to SLAY? Join our Rainbow Games team and help create an unforgettable experience for everyone! Sign up NOW and let’s do this!
From helping point people in the right direction to sports officials we need it all.
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REAF operates Monday - Friday during term-time at Selwyn College, with up to 120 refugee-background adult learners of English. We aim to provide a safe earning community where newcomers to NZ can connect, support one another and benefit from advancing their English language as well as other skills that are useful for successful resettlement.
We welcome volunteers who can provide: 1) advocacy and moral support for families, helping to fill out forms and access systems 2) assistance and support with learning the NZ road code (towards a learner licence) and driving practice (towards a restricted licence) 3) gardening on our site, to keep the weeds at bay!
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Rotary Club of Remuera Inc is a dedicated community service organisation whose members work together to support local and international humanitarian projects, youth programmes and leadership development, guided by Rotary’s core values of service, fellowship, diversity, integrity and leadership.
Volunteers meet together on Monday evenings and participate in hands on projects.
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Scale Marine is a model boat club based on the Panmure Basin where we have a building and boat. Our club purpose is to foster model boat building among people of all ages. New members are always welcome.
Club members volunteer to assist the club when attending School Galas and exhibitions where we show case the club.
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Our volunteer programme at the Māngere Animal Centre supports daily operations through hands-on roles in animal care, fostering, customer service, and administration. Volunteers contribute their time and compassion to care for animals on site, support the team, and help create positive outcomes for animals in our community.
Volunteer opportunities at the Auckland Centre in Mangere include animal care, cleaning, enrichment, customer service support, fostering, and administrative tasks. Roles vary in commitment and skill level, allowing volunteers to contribute in ways that suit their availability while supporting the welfare and rehoming of animals.
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Whether you are early in your career or more experienced, we are a group diverse across backgrounds and cultures, joined together with a passion for community service and friendship. We get together regularly and are incredibly effective at undertaking many meaningful community projects, both large and small, and have a big emphasis on providing regular opportunities for involving members, partners, family and friends in all we do including socials.
We invite you to contact us whether to support us as a volunteer, a sponsor, to ask about membership or just to find out more about what we do at Rotary.
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Volunteering Auckland supports not for profit organisations in the Auckland area to connect with and engage volunteers through our website.
We help:
NFPs find and manage their volunteers effectively
Individuals find volunteer opportunities that suit them
We help corporates find team volunteering activities
Volunteering Auckland advocates for volunteering across Auckland.
About 200 roles for individual volunteers feature on our website at any time. The range is extensive - from animal care, business support, conservation, health & medical to driving, sports, fundraising, retail, mentoring and social support.
Our Employee Volunteer Programme matches corporate employee teams with the community projects of NFP members.
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The Trust proudly owns and operates the last remaining steam vessel of her type still sailing regularly anywhere in the World. The ship Heritagelisted ship is crewed entirely by volunteers, supervised by more experienced and qualified crew members.
We’re inclusive! We have opportunities for people with management experience, marketing, fundraising, administration, sailing, engineering, hospitality … there’s room in our crew for just about anyone, of any age. There’s training available and the opportunity to earn recognised qualifications. There’s no better way to enjoy summer on the water than sailing with the William C. Daldy.
Safety
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Brake is a road safety charity working to prevent road deaths and injuries and support people affected by crashes.
Brake coordinates Road Safety Week, advocates for safer roads and helps communities to campaign for changes locally. We produce free support resources for people who have been bereaved and injured in crashes.
Volunteer opportunities include being a local community Brake Champion, helping with events and fundraising, and assisting with administrative tasks.
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Our volunteer patrollers are the “eyes and ears of the police”. They generally live locally, and choose to patrol in order to share their local knowledge with fellow-patrollers, help the police keep their neighbourhoods and businesses safe, and to expand their local social connections.
Become a Patroller and join our team.
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We are "eyes and ears of the police" in the suburbs of Glen Innes, Point England, Wai o Taki Bay and Panmure. To learn about us first-hand you are invited to "ride along" with two of our existing patrol team on a 2-3 hour patrol,
Affiliated to Community Patrols of New Zealand, this community service helps anyone who is job-seeker boost their CV, and is particularly useful for anyone interested in applying to join NZ Police.
Youth
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Auckland provides one-to-one mentoring for young people facing adversity. Visit our stand to learn about becoming a mentor, supporting our programme, or partnering with us to help build brighter futures.
Join Big Brothers Big Sisters Auckland as a mentor, event volunteer or supporter. Help create life-changing mentoring relationships and support vulnerable young people to reach their potential.
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Cheekee Hero Charity is a registered charitable organisation dedicated to enhancing the emotional and mental well-being of children, particularly those living with disabilities, neurodiversity, or health challenges. Our kaupapa is grounded in creativity, connection, and community, ensuring every child feels seen, heard, and valued.
We are searching for kind individuals to support our annual Cheekee Hero Day at Ōrākei School on Monday 14/12/26. This is the last event for the school year and one that is highly anticipated. If you’re super encouraging and love kids – sign up!
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Small letters. Big humanity. We host community letter-writing events and outreach programmes that transform handwritten words into lasting connections, strengthening wellbeing and bringing the youth of Aotearoa closer together. Our activities unites volunteers, students and young people to promote kindness, reduce loneliness, and strengthen community wellbeing.
Write a letter. Change a life. Volunteers can write letters of encouragement, support community events, facilitate school workshops, help with photography, social media, fundraising, and outreach using their unique skills to build a kinder, more connected New Zealand.
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The Youth of Ōrākei is a non-partisan youth council of 30 passionate young volunteers, aged 15-21, dedicated to inspiring, representing and connecting rangatahi within the Ōrākei ward community. We do this by organising and running a wide range of youth-focussed events and initiatives.
We recruit new members each September and October through two pathways. Young people can apply via our open seat system promoted on our social media pages, or be nominated by their high school through our school seat system. Successful applicants become members on our youth council for the following year.