Charity/Volunteer Work

What do you do, if you do any?

Right now, I'm raising money for the Animal Welfare League and the Royal Society for The Blind by selling raffle tickets.

The AWL needs to raise money to upgrade their shelter & adoption centre, the pet boarding centre and the cat retirement home 'Peppertree Cottage' at Wingfield. The RSB is raising money to breed, raise, train and support RSB guide dogs.

If anyone would like to donate money and buy a raffle ticket, please PM me 

I'm also interested in doing some hands on volunteer work, so if anyone has any suggestions, post them here! 

definately, you know im down 

pet stores should be outlawed - if you want a pet - save one from death row!!!

Hehe, tickets are $2.50 for both (so fully tax deductible)... the AWL book has to go back in about a week, so as long as I can catch up with you before then it's all gravy 

cool - are you working in town? i can pop by a fix you up then for both of the tix

oh - missed your first question.

have volunteered for around four years now in the areas of mental health, youth work and homelessness. cant legally say which organisations publicly.

Not at the moment, but could always meet you for coffee down Prospect Road one day 

How did you get into volunteering? Did you just contact the organisation and ask to volunteer?

I am a musician

I was volunteer of the month for Radio Adelaide back in 1998 

I have also just started a msg board for type 1 Diabetics to gain knowledge wisdom & understanding

EDIT: I was also going to go in the ride for a cure next Feb or march but they expected me to raise waaaaaaaaay to much money so ive entered a strong man comp instead 

catastrophic - is this john?

lexy - i will love to go for a coffee or a beer, when is a good day for you?

heres a good link to some worthwhile volunteer thingos, gets you out of the house and meeting people who are doing good things for the environment

Save the world!

 

http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/dehaa/volunteer.html

Join a Friends of Parks group Check out our Calendar of Events
Take part in the Frog Census Check out the Volunteer Opportunities Register
Become a Friend of the Botanic Gardens Check out the Volunteer News - The Link
Start or join an AirWatch program
   
Start or join a Waterwatch Program

alternatively, you can hit the volunteers website which is the umbrella that covers all sectors.

Thursday?

Cheers, Erika 

I don't have time to donate to a charity so I donate money instead. I hope to have time to donate in future though.

Yeah I wanna help out with Meals on Wheels!!! So many older people are volunteering for it, when they almost deserve the service themselves. Would be tons of fun too, old biddies are mega nice n cool!

I promote Men's Health Seminars including Prostate Cancer Awareness Evenings.
'Early detection may save your erection'

I help with an annual charity art exhibition.

I work 'crowd control' at a local Christmas Pageant. Strangely this role also includes handing out lollies to children. I am getting more comfortable with it as I go along.

Did a stint on Radio Adelaide too.

NB: I am NOT MC Frost

My mum volunteered to design this website, for, erm, volunteering...

http://www.volunteeringsa.org.au/

 



I don't do jack shit to be honest.

*edit* wait, I play on fresh, does that count?

I worked in a nursing home when I was at high school, not volunteering, but helping the residents, it was good!


That's awesome 

Fresh fm is a volunteer organisation, doin my bit 

Im a CFS volunteer firefighter. Fighting fires is what I do. Thaught it would be fun when I first started, and turned out to be awsome.

Tuff gig

yes you can volunteer for the big day out also to do crowd care, give out water bottles, give directions etc. you have to apply for it though, good thing is that you get a free ticket and a t shirt


I think you have to apply through the BDO website though

CFS are champs!
 

meals on wheels are decent. my pup volunteered there for 21 years.

as a volunteer though, you won't actually get to cook for a good year or two.

my pup got in a whole lot of trouble the first time he cooked the soup because he went all crazy like and added salt and pepper. half of the people he made it for couldn't eat it though because it was too spicy!

Whats a pup?

thats kinda cute if your talkin bout ya papa. Chris and his pup.

LOL

I was in the CFS when I was a kid. We'd start fires with petrol then drive past in the truck and put them out. Great place for a little pyro

Haha nice!! Well, I reckon outside of volunteering hours u could score some frigging awesome recipes

my puppa. have never ever called him pop. sounds too old.

Fff CFS is for chumps ya mean  

when I joined up  as a lil pyro kid I was told "ewww you're a girl, girls cant fight bushfires, they have to make sandwiches and sit on the radios with all of the wifeys" and i was like fuk you cunts fight ya own fires then.   I only went to a couple of training sessions then as it was full of sexist old crusty pig men who used the time slot for a "CFS training session to actually just drink beers on a monday night"

later that year my folks house nearly burnt down from a bushfire coming straight off of national park so i got my fix by fighting that bushfire then.

most definitely. the best part about him working there was that he got to bring food that was left over home with him.

ate so many scones and muffins as a kid it wasn't funny.

i've just done abit of free AV tech work, thats about it. good to see a show come together from minimal resources

 I cook tea for Del and my brother sometimes

Isnt working for stageings just about volunteer work any way ?

Ya-huh... you're on the money there 

The old CFS dudes are the creepiest sleazes who don't deserve to be around women and are probably in the CFS to avoid their families and share porn...... except for you Pat 

I've organised the odd charity rave here and there, DJ'ed at a few others and also done a bit of free design work for the odd charity.

None of which got me laid so I'm over helping out those less fortunate than me.

thankfully no

  @ stryke

Wicked!

Where do I sign up??!?

I recommend down south.... do it for your country son 

you were married at the time... maybe its time to try the charity thing again now you are a free agent

Our Senior Lieutenant is Female and she is a dam good firefighter. Haven't seen much sexism around my brigade so you must have joined the wrong one. If you live in the hills you have to be prepared for fires and not blame volunteers for misfortunes as there ore only a few of us and we can only do what we can do. Give back to the comunity I say.

Your Kits sister if I'm correct and Ive been told about your near miss with the bush fire a while ago in Ironbank. That was a pretty big fire and again there were only so many volunteers. To prevent this from happening again, more people should join the CFS or at least get educated by us on how to deal with bush fire danger.

my2cents

i shop at op shops all the time, thats my contribution!

i've been wanting to do volunteer work for the animal welfare league for a while, but i've been slack...

you can volunteer to take the dogs for walks, or just sit in the cages and keep the cats entertained!!

i've also been known to donate to the blanket appeal!!

and like timmy, i've shopped in many an op shop in my time!

charity begins at home

thats it! more hotties should join the fire brigade! lets get to the point, the bit that i care about, young bounding men jumping around in cute as bright yellow fire retardent suits with hard hats... i got the photos of scott and yourself and oh how i am going to utalise them! 

I'm going to vomit

would you like a bucket?

I want to do that too!

arrr as I said CFS is for chumps 

Is there charity work available for people like me willing to shoot blood nuts for free?

dont be hating on your own kind

 

I like to call em fanta pants

bahaha

I'll only be selling tickets for the AWL for another week, so if anyone else is keen to donate and enter the lottery, then please contact me ASAP.

 

Chutney crutch

 
otherwise known as ginger nuts 

Get back on topic, ya cunts 

Sorry saffron snatch

paprika punani

 

fanta fanny?

Guys this thread is in soap box and meant to be semi serious, get it back on topic please...

Ok enough is enough, I did a 5 k run for cancer research UK this year.  Tony always donates to the dudes with the cans outside of shops.  I get to keep the stickers. 

I think my next trick will be a bike ride for charity, need a better bike fist but we'll see what comes up in the meantime.

Edit:  Woops this is Yak, s'if tony would get off his ass for anyone 

Yay, I got a purple sticker today for donating to jeans for genes day

Well what have blind people, Minda's and A.I.D.S sufferers ever done for me?

 

Raised your awareness? 

Filled your spank bank?

Or your Hard Drive?

Unfortunately not.

But that doesnt mean I'm not still searching.

eww pfffff waaateva

have a cry about whats in the soap boz and wats not

grumpy guts 

Take it easy. The soap box is there for a reason.

If I really was a "grumpy guts" I would have just deleted all the off topic posts.

That said if it continues with crap I'll just close the thread.

hahah! mod mod mod mod mod

i know lauren volunteers with lifeline (or something like that), do u need much experience for that line of volunteering?

Is that a support phone line or something? If so I'd hope that you need experience and qualifications to do so...

Last I read many of those support phone lines were completely over run and didn't have anywhere near enough staff - leaving many calls going unanswered.

 

You don't need to be qualified... but you do receive accredited training.

Fair enough, by qualified I didn't mean have a doctorate in psychology or anything - but just that they should have gone through some training.

I gave a shitload of clothes to Goodwill this week... That's my good deed for the year...

Oh, and I also gave money to the deaf society, because that's something I'm going to need no doubt

I give clothes as well, every year or so on average I guess. I sponsor a child through "Save the Children" as well - in Vietnam. The name "Save the Children" just suckered me in...

if anyone is interested in volunteering for 2 hours a week/fortnight/month, the organisation i volunteer for really need more peeps on board.

it involves meeting with a client who is socially isolated (without family/friend/social support networks), and getting them out into the community for a walk/coffee and a chat. you will have access to free training and other courses that are optional. great for adding many valuable skills that are transerable to any workplace or personal skills.

pm me if interested.

My tickets for AWL have been returned, good luck Alana, Nes and Alana's Mum... and good luck me! Hopefully we'll win something 

I'm still selling tickets for the RSB, the money raised will go to training guide dogs. If you're interested, PM me.

I've also contacted Lifeline and enquired about volunteering with them 

Thinking of organinsing a fund raising thing at my work in November for Children in Need over here but not sure what would be cool to do.  I was thinking about baking heaps and then having a morning/afternoon tea and ask for donations for my treats. 

Another thought was to ride to work every day of the week, rain hail or shine and get sponsorship.  Not such a big deal but he weather is turning to shit here so could be challenging.

If anyone has any Ideas i'd love to hear from you. 

They're pretty good ideas, lady. One of my old workplaces used to have pancake morning teas as well and everyone would pay $1 per pancake and the money would go to charity.

That's a good idea too, but we don't have a real kitchen.  Just a toaster, a micro and a kettle in the lunch room.

all u need is one of those electric frypans, they work real well. and a bucket in case u spill shit everywhere!

i like the bikeriding thing, maybe do it for a month and get it on the local community radio/tv/paper! do it! the fact u are aussie will be kinda funny, yeah? always seems the poms get on the news here for riding across the nullarbor n shit

Yea i liked the bike dealie too, gonna have to get mud guards tho.  Atm when it rains i get splashed in the face and all up my back.  I look like a reverse skunk!

My friend here is keen on the bake sale, if it goes ahead we're gonna have a bake off.

Mmm bake off.

Well, I've received some info from Lifeline and I'm going to call them about volunteering!

Whatever happened to all those 'Rave Safe' volunteers?

I remember seeing some at the Mylor Ruckus [ ]

It's unlikely that the Massive would require their specialised set of services

but did anyone volunteer for this? Any good stories?

Maz used to do Rave Safe stuff... but I don't know if she comes on the board anymore.

the australian red cross took over after rave safe was over, you will see them at raves, bdo etc as 'save-a-mate' you too can volunteer or work for them.

  good stuff lexy, im going to volunteer for lifeline too, so i can add counselling skills to my toolbox - downside is that you have to pay for the training which is fucked when youre on struggle street - and quite often it is those peeps who want to help!!

I'm always doing something for Barnardos or habitat for humanity or WWF.

Children in Need is always a good one in the UK

2 of my work mates and I spent last night baking and have brought the treats in to work today to raise money for children in need.  So far it's been a hit!  I guess the proof will be in the money we raise tho.

Woo, we raised 118 pounds, not bad for baked goods, I'm thinkin of goin into business on the side 

nice work lady!!!!

I know how many pounds I would raise if I went near baked goods...  :lol:

I know how many pounds I would raise if I went near baked goods... 

 :lol:

We even made it to the work newsletter with a photo n all! That's the 4th time for me in just over a year!

 

We even made it to the work newsletter with a photo n all! That's the 4th time for me in just over a year!

 man up Julian!  :E

I'm giving blood today.

I hope I don't pass out like I did last time the doc took blood from me...

 man up Julian! 

Ended up that I was fine... no queasiness at all.

I was told not to give blood often though, maybe twice a year, because my veins aren't very good and really hard to find. Took 3 nurses to find one good enough.

All the other tests (blood pressure, iron levels) are excellent, although I weight more than I thought I did...

u can donate!! :) but it can only be plasma, so they can't use ur whole blood sample. i'd give em a call, but usually after 3 or 6 months after getting a piercing or tattoo u are clear :) i donated last year after getting a piercing :thumbsup:

I can't give blood for a year now cos of getting another tattoo. And prolly the year after that cos I want another one!

u can donate!! but it can only be plasma, so they can't use ur whole blood sample. i'd give em a call, but usually after 3 or 6 months after getting a piercing or tattoo u are clear i donated last year after getting a piercing

OK, might check it out.  Was only going on what my boss told me anyways - he gives blood. It's only been 3 weeks so far tho. hehe