New Plymouth Volunteer Centre

About us

Volunteering New Plymouth was established in 2002.
The main purpose of Volunteering New Plymouth is to assist ‘not for profit’ community groups in recruiting and retaining volunteers and to offer ongoing support to all community organisations and their volunteers. To do this we offer our service as a contact point for all volunteers and community agencies. We provide information about opportunities for volunteering, we raise community awareness of the importance of the work that is undertaken by volunteers, we organise recognition awards, we advocate on behalf of volunteers and community organisations at a local and national level and we provide a channel where resources can be shared, particularly in the training of volunteers and their coordinators/managers. We aim to help organisations recruit and retain volunteers and we support existing volunteers through free or low-cost training in order to increase their efficiency, effectiveness and capacity.

Events and Trainings

Volunteering New Plymouth runs a number of events and trainings to support the not for profit sector. These include Volunteer Awareness Week activities, our annual Volunteer Recognition Awards, Volunteer Managers' recognition events, Volunteer 'snap shots' and the Volunteers Thank You event.

Latest roles

Community Support Group Volunteer Member

Ref: #00758

The role is being a committee member, and this involves attending a monthly Community Support Group meeting (approximately 1-2 hours) on the first Wednesday of each month at 10.30 am. No fundraising is involved, it's basically coming up with ideas for events that are suitable for our members and then helping put them into action, i.e. Christmas lunch, pizza afternoon, cake decorating etc.

Volunteer Accounting Assistant

Ref: #00757

We are looking for someone with accounting skills who can use Xero and help s to do run reports for funding, do forecasting and budgeting, etc. Can be done from home, although some in-person meetings would be needed.

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