Recreation Volunteers
Become a recreation volunteer with Interchange Gippsland and join our participants on our fun and exciting day trips, camps or special events. We provide recreation programs for all age groups including children, teenagers and adults with a disability. If you enjoy being out and about, like having a chat and want to give back to your community, our recreation volunteer program is for you!
Recreation volunteers support and have fun with people with a disability. Your role includes providing peer support, leading by example and encouraging participants to get involved in activities. Recreation volunteers have an important role in enhancing the social inclusion of people with disabilities and connecting individuals with their community.
Examples of the activities you might participate in as a volunteer include, trips to the snow, trips to the football, horse riding, circus workshops, art days, paintballing, learning to surf, attending the theater or just simply hanging out and having fun.
We are always looking for supportive and reliable volunteers. We invite people from all backgrounds from the age of 14 years to become a recreation volunteer with Interchange Gippsland. You don’t require any previous experience with people who have a disability, all we ask for is your availability and enthusiasm to provide peer support and participate in the activities whether it be on a day trip, camps or a special event.
Please note: under 18 Recreation Volunteers focus on the social support of their peer participants and are supervised at all times by adult staff and volunteers. Teenage volunteers have no personal responsibility for providing personal care support or activity supervision and are accountable to the Program Coordinator or the Team Leaders.
Words from a Young Volunteer
“I have enjoyed every second at Interchange and have had the great opportunity to be able to work with some amazing people and help people in this community feel at home with us at Interchange. I am excited to get back in and volunteer some more when we are able to again because it has brought me joy to see the smiles on the kid’s faces when they get to do new things and have the support they need. Thank you so much, I appreciate everything I have had the opportunity to do with Interchange and for the consistent support I get from other workers when I volunteer”
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Interchange Gippsland is a ‘Child Safe’ organisation. We are committed to the safety and wellbeing of all people accessing our service and support the rights of children and vulnerable people. We will act without hesitation to ensure that a child safe environment is maintained at all times. We adhere to Child Safe standards in the development and production of all our promotional material and newsletters, recruitment documents (including advertisements and application forms) and in electronic communication media involving our internet, intranet and social media pages. All employees and volunteers on all our programs must have satisfactorily completed the screening.
