National Volunteer Week (May 19-25) is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteering.
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This special event is an opportunity to highlight the important role of volunteers in the community and invites people not currently volunteering to give it a go.
National Volunteer Week 2025 celebrates the power of volunteering to bring people together with the theme, ‘Connecting Communities’.
Volunteering creates lasting relationships that enrich lives and strengthen communities.
Cooinda recognises that anyone can contribute, assisting with daily activities, ensuring the residents and staff are supported.
Volunteer Judy enjoys spending time at Cooinda.
Volunteer involvement is a critical part of the community. It contributes to society and active participation in building strong, inclusive, and resilient communities.
It underlies innovation and social change as well as responding to community needs and challenges.
It brings together individual strengths and assets in order to support the community.
The benefits of volunteering are not only to the Cooinda Community, but also to the individual volunteer.
Some benefits include:
Learning new skills, sharing skills and experiences
Making the community in which they live a better place
Contributing to a cause that has affected a friend or family member
Meeting new people and social interaction
Gaining satisfaction through touching lives and making a difference.
Volunteers can provide the time, skills, expertise, and points of view that enable us to pursue meaningful programs and activities that benefit the residents of Cooinda.
Volunteer Len enjoys helping out at Cooinda.
Meaningful contributions in turn promote a sense of belonging and general wellbeing.
Volunteering can also be a way to meet new people, develop skills, potentially leading to employment or a way to contribute existing skills for the common good.
In recent months, Cooinda has been fortunate to have a new member on its volunteer team, with palliative care experience.
Cooinda’s volunteer coordinator would like to invite all interested individuals to become involved in its volunteer program or help increase awareness of the vital role volunteers play in our lives this National Volunteer Week.
It only takes one person to make a difference in an older persons' life.
For more information, contact Jane Montgomery on 5761 3300 or email volunteer@cooinda.org.au
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