Organisations have a duty of care to protect volunteers, who often choose their role deliberately and should understand their rights, responsibilities and place within the community.

This guide supports new and returning volunteers to find a role that suits them, make the most of their experience and understand the shared responsibility between volunteers and organisations.

Apply for a National Police Check and receive a National Police Certificate containing an official record of any disclosable criminal history.

The Working with Children Check is a screening process for assessing or re-assessing people who work with or care for children in Victoria.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Worker Screening Check (NDIS Check) is a way to ensure that people who work with NDIS participants do not present an unacceptable risk to participants.

A not-for-profit (NFP) organisation can provide voluntary work opportunities for eligible job seekers.More information on how to register your Organisation with Centrelink.

Looking for information or guidance on volunteering? Volunteering Victoria is your go-to place for all things volunteering. Their guides cover various topics relating to volunteering and best practice volunteer management.

The Child Safe Standards require organisations involving children to have policies, procedures and practices to keep them safe.

The National Standards for Volunteer Involvement provide a flexible best practice framework to support effective and inclusive volunteer engagement across diverse settings.

Find out how barriers to volunteering can be reduced for people with a disability, and the practical steps organisations can take to create more accessible and inclusive opportunities.

Learn more about the challenges people from CALD backgrounds face in volunteering, and discover strategies organisations can use to create culturally aware and supportive opportunities.

Find out how the Volunteer Expo became a more inclusive and effective community event, connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with local volunteering opportunities.

Read more about how the Youth Forum brought young people and volunteer organisations together to create more inclusive, inspiring pathways into volunteering.

This resource explores the barriers preventing young people from volunteering in regional areas and offers practical steps for organisations to make youth volunteering more accessible, flexible and rewarding.

Inclusive volunteering requires more than translation. It calls for intentional, culturally relevant design that builds trust, reduces barriers and connects with the ways multicultural communities already contribute.

Organisations have a duty of care to protect volunteers, who often choose their role deliberately and should understand their rights, responsibilities and place within the community.

This guide supports new and returning volunteers to find a role that suits them, make the most of their experience and understand the shared responsibility between volunteers and organisations.

Apply for a National Police Check and receive a National Police Certificate containing an official record of any disclosable criminal history.

The Working with Children Check is a screening process for assessing or re-assessing people who work with or care for children in Victoria.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Worker Screening Check (NDIS Check) is a way to ensure that people who work with NDIS participants do not present an unacceptable risk to participants.

Looking for information or guidance on volunteering? Volunteering Victoria is your go-to place for all things volunteering. Their guides cover various topics relating to volunteering and best practice volunteer management.

This Fact Sheet provides volunteers with useful tips on how to recognise signs of loneliness with the elderly and what to do about it.

For many older people, driving represents independence and connection to community life. Changes in health, mobility or confidence can make driving more difficult, which may increase social isolation.

For some older people, a volunteer may be one of the few regular points of contact they have with their community. This Fact sheet gives practical ways volunteers can help......