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Coastal Research, Education, and Advocacy Network (CREAN)
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:

 

  1. Volunteering will provide students with employment experience that looks great on their resume and college/university applications.
  2. This is an exciting and great way to engage with and contribute to the community.
  3. Students will have the opportunity to gain self empowerment through acquiring a new skill.
  4. 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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

WIN Supporters — Victoria Women in Need Community Cooperative

 

There are many positions available at Volunteer Victoria.
Click HERE

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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/
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Ballet Victoria
For more information contact Chloe at
​250-380-6063
https://www.balletvictoria.ca/become-a-volunteer/

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BCSPCA
For more information go to:

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CanAssist at University of Victoria
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.
If you have any questions, please email volunteer@canassist.ca.

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CRD – Volunteering for Regional Parks
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
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Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre
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/

 

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 Greater Victoria Green Team 
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!
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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/

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Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria
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/
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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.

http://salmonforsooke.ca/volunteer/

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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

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The Mustard Seed
The Mustard Seed is a non-profit fighting hunger and restoring faith to hurting souls in Greater Victoria
https://mustardseed.ca/get-involved/