My name is Brian and I am the volunteer coordinator for UVIC’s Tsukino-Con Anime Convention. Tsukino-con is an all-weekend event taking place February 23rd to 25th 2024 on campus at UVIC. We have volunteer spots open for a variety of different positions and offer an exciting and flexible opportunity for youth who are seeking volunteer hours toward their graduation. We are able to provide reference letters, references, and sign documents required for their graduation transition plan.
Tsukino-Con is a non-profit organization which hosts an exciting and eventful weekend of anime, games, and celebration of Japanese culture on campus at UVIC. We support a variety of charities including Child’s Play, the BC SPCA, Mustard Seed and the UVIC Food Bank. We are in need of team players to join the convention volunteers this year and are hoping to acquire some help from students at your school who would be interested in being a part of our awesome community.
The volunteer application is available through http://www.tsukinocon.com/. Volunteers must be age 14 to apply. Volunteers under the age of 18 must have written consent from a parent or guardian. We are flexible with time commitments.
Please let me know if you want more information or have any questions at all. Either myself or Zoel, our Volunteer Deputy, will be answering emails. Our volunteer page can be reached through the following link: http://www.tsukinocon.com/volunteer/. If you are interested, we can drop off a promotional poster, and provide you with any information you want.
Thank you, and very much looking forward to hearing back from you!
Sincerely,
Brian White Zoel Pretorius
Volunteer Coordinator Deputy Volunteer Coordinator
Tsukino-Con Staff Tsukino-Con Staff
CREAN’s mission is to deepen connections and improve the lives of youth, families, and their communities by connecting students in a volunteer placement program. Here are some benefits of volunteering:
- Volunteering will provide students with employment experience that looks great on their resume and college/university applications.
- This is an exciting and great way to engage with and contribute to the community.
- Students will have the opportunity to gain self empowerment through acquiring a new skill.
- This will allow students to receive volunteer experience/credits which will in turn lead to success on their path to graduation and higher education.
This will be achieved through matching students with one of our community partners for a 120 hour volunteer placement. For more information about the program, this is the link to the description and the application. https://creansociety.ca/volunteerplacement
Kaleidoscope Theatre is seeking student volunteers to work in front of house during productions, as well as support our popular Family FUNday events!
Kaleidoscope is looking for ticket scanners and ushers for each performance this season. Ticket scanners will scan tickets at the door and direct folks with ticket questions to our box office staff. Ushers will help guests find their assigned seats in the theatre. They also sit in the theatre during the show to ensure patron safety and admit latecomers.
Front of house shifts range from 1 hour and 15 minutes (ticket scanners) to 2 hours (ushers). There are both daytime and evening shifts to choose from. Please note that the first two shows of our season will take place at the Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St. The final show of our season will take place outdoors in Esquimalt Gorge Park (near the Gorge Park Pavilion)
Kaleidoscope is looking for volunteers to help with craft stations, dress up stations, greeting guests at the door and helping with set up/tear down. These shifts are from 8:45am-12:15pm, but even if you can only attend part of that time, they would still greatly appreciate your support.
Victoria Chinatown Care Society is looking for Student Activity Assistant Volunteers.
The student Activity Assistant Volunteers support the Activity Coordinator by working with residents as they engage in arts, crafts, and exercise.
Apply HERE
Speakwell ESL is a free, non-denominational program run by volunteers and sponsored by the Community Development Office, Saanich Parks and Recreation, Municipality of Saanich in Victoria, British Columbia
Speakwell ESL has a mission to serve the people in our community in the following ways:
- To support the many excellent English programs available in Victoria through a free, volunteer-based program.
- To welcome the immigrant, refugee, and temporary visitor populations in the greater Victoria area.
- To boost confidence in verbal communication by providing a relaxed, informal environment for participants to practice their English skills.
- To build verbal fluency for participants at all English levels by organizing groups so individuals with similar proficiency are able to learn together at their own pace.
- To foster cross-cultural interaction and understanding in an effort to create a sense of community both on a local and international level.
Details: Volunteer Wednesday nights 7:00 – 8:30 pm at the Gordon Head Lawn Bowling Club – 4105 Lambrick Way
Apply Here: https://speakwellesl.com/our-volunteers/
Our Pulling Together Volunteer Program provides many opportunities to help restore natural areas in parks.
There are many positions available at Volunteer Victoria.
Click HERE
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
If you are keen on learning and love art, we would be eager to hear from you!
https://aggv.ca/support/volunteering/
For more information contact Chloe at
250-380-6063
https://www.balletvictoria.ca/become-a-volunteer/
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CanAssist began as a small volunteer venture in 1999 and over the years has continued to rely on the passion, skills and energy of numerous volunteers. We’ve grown a lot since our early days, but we still depend on the generosity and enthusiasm of our valued volunteers.Please look at our list of available volunteer positions . If you are interested in any of these positions, please fill out the appropriate form.
http://www.canassist.ca/EN/main/about-us/volunteers.html
Our Volunteer Coordinator will review your application and then get back to you.
Regional Parks provides opportunities for you to be involved in the preservation and enjoyment of regional parks and trails with positions for naturalists, restoration volunteers, park stewards, trail ambassadors and naturalists. There are also opportunities for groups to help with one-time, short-term projects such as park clean-ups, invasive species removal and plantings and event volunteers.
https://www.crd.bc.ca/parks-recreation-culture/parks-trails/crd-regional-parks/volunteering-for-regional-parks
Volunteering touches all that we do at the MFRC. A wide range of volunteer opportunities exists for you to become involved and make a positive impact in the military family community. Whether your interest is in meeting new people, working with children and youth, building a resume and enhancing your professional expertise – volunteering for us will provide numerous rewards.
http://esquimaltmfrc.com/get-involved/volunteer/current-opportunities/
Volunteer Position: Environmental Volunteers – helping restore the environment throughout Greater Victoria
Description of Position: take part in hands-on educational activities that help restore the ecosystems, parks and beaches throughout Greater Victoria and the Capital Regional District. Some of the activities you will participate in include removing non-native and invasive plants that post significant harm to our native ecosystems, planting native shrubs and trees, helping restore wetlands, cleaning up the beach and shorelines, building trails, building bird boxes, and helping out on educational farms by planting veggies and other related farm work!
Benefit to Volunteer: Learn hands-on skills to restore different types of ecosystems that exist throughout Greater Victoria (from Sooke to Sidney), learn plant identification skills including identifying native and invasive plants.
Time Commitment: Flexible – come to as many or as few volunteer sessions as you would like to! Each session ranges from 2-4 hours.
Contact: Please sign up on our Meet-up site to review our upcoming volunteer opportunities and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Victoria-Green-Team/
Contact: amanda@greenteamscanada.ca 778-677-9078 if you have any questions!
Volunteers are important partners in the Greater Victoria Public Library’s goal to build community and support literacy and lifelong learning for all. We are grateful to our volunteers past and present who have played a key role in our success.GVPL aims to offer volunteers of all ages meaningful ways to engage with the library and support the community. Please see below for current opportunities to share your knowledge, ideas and skills and help make GVPL a place to connect, discover and imagine.
https://www.gvpl.ca/howdoi/volunteer/
The Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) helps individuals and organizations to connect across cultures. We provide information, support and tools to help immigrants and refugees reach their goals. By engaging people through networks, education, employment, and arts programming we create a welcoming community.We value volunteering as an opportunity to welcome newcomers and build a respectful and inclusive community. We appreciate the wonderful work of our volunteers for all that they do to make ICA what is today. For this we are very grateful!http://www.icavictoria.org/get-involved/volunteer/
Juan de Fuca Salmon Restoration Society
- Signing up to spend a few hours greeting visitors at the front desk is a pleasant way to get out into the community.
- Using your demonstration and teaching skills to assist with naturalist tours, especially focusing on salmon spawning time, is a way to interact with youngsters and share their excitement as they participate in the progress of salmon in the habitat waterway, or in a dissection at the riverside.
- Tending the landscaping, predominately natural, of the Centre’s grounds, is another skill that would be appreciated as the grounds continue to take shape.
- If you are truly interested in fish, perhaps you’d like to take a day a week in season to share the responsibility for doing the hatchery chores
- Or you could don some waders and go into the river with the fellows and help with the harvesting itself, perhaps using nets, lines or an encircling trap.
Volunteers take on a variety of roles in the harvest process to help keep the Fruit Tree Project running smoothly; Harvest Leaders,Fruit Pickers,Tree Assessors,Fruit Sorters
The Mustard Seed is a non-profit fighting hunger and restoring faith to hurting souls in Greater Victoria
https://mustardseed.ca/get-involved/