The Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Award

Volunteer organisations

  • Volunteering Tasmania
    Tasmania’s peak body for volunteering. Includes Volunteer Connect, a central database that lists volunteer vacancies and opportunities.
  • Volunteering Australia
    National peak body for volunteering. Includes information about best practice, news and events, and policies.
  • The BookEnd Trust
    Provides scholarships to UTAS students for projects that educate schools and the public about environmental issues.
  • The Community Friends & Network Program
    Supports ‘new to town’ students by connecting them with Tasmanian people and networks.
  • The Wilderness Society
    A community-based environmental protection organisation. Opportunities for volunteering may include assisting with stalls, events, administration, newsletters and IT.
  • Australian Red Cross
    Humanitarian support to vulnerable people and communities. Offer a broad range of volunteer opportunities, including helping out in a Red Cross retail shop, friendship programs in aged care, and breakfast clubs in schools.
  • Centacare Tasmania
    Contact point for the Integrated Humanitarian Support Service (IHSS), which assists with support of newly-arrived humanitarian entrants.
  • The Migrant Resource Centre
    Contact point for the IHSS program for the north, as well as other volunteer opportunities.
  • Woodbridge Discovery Centre
    Students of all ages use the centre to learn about, discover and care for the marine environment. Volunteer opportunities available working with school students, live marine species and organising educational science-based activities.
  • Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal
    Official fundraising entity supporting Australia's response to the threat of Devil Facial Tumour Disease. Volunteer opportunities include involvement in fundraising activities, and writing and compiling a media story bank.
  • Sustainable Living Tasmania
    Volunteer opportunities to assist in helping Tasmanians find practical pathways to sustainability.
  • Oaktree Foundation - Generate
    A volunteering program for young activists and leaders searching to realise their vision of a different world. Empowering young people, the Generate program takes first-time volunteers and exposes them to the aid and development sector, providing them with the skills necessary to become dedicated and effective agents of change.
  • Tasmanian Sail Training Association
    Provides members and the public of Tasmania with the opportunity to interact with a part of Tasmania's maritime history. The association maintains and operates the Tall Ship the Lady Nelson, which is berthed at Elizabeth Street Pier.
  • Welcome to Australia
    Welcome to Australia exists to help everyday Australians cultivate a culture of welcome in their local community.  Volunteers needed to help co-ordinate and develop national and regional projects, and also help in marketing, communications and media.
  • LINC Tasmania
    LINC Tasmania recruit and manage volunteers to provide services in libraries, Tasmanian Archives & Heritage, online access centres and literacy services.
  • VGen
    VGen is World Vision Australia's youth movement and advocates for those living in impoverished communities.  
  • Southern Coastcare Association of Tasmania
    Find out how you can volunteer to help protect your local beach, have fun, and get some great skills and experience.
  • Conservation Volunteers Australia
    Bringing people together in the environment.
  • Community Sports Link Program
    Community Sports-Link is a fun and friendly recreational sports program designed specifically for children and adults with an intellectual disability. 

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