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January 2025 Our parkrun journey began on Christmas day 2022. My husband had worked a late shift so our daughter and I thought we would try parkrun an...

December 2024 What do you think about when you consider rangatahi (youth) as volunteers? At Volunteer South, we believe they are a force to be reckone...

December 2024 The team at ADInstruments (ADI) have a wonderful initiative called ‘Closed for Good’, where the team heads out to various community grou...

December 2024 Lake Hawea Community Centre is at the heart of its community and the volunteers who keep it running are the lifeblood. These kind heart...

December 2024 This year, the International Volunteer Day theme is ‘Volunteering: Something for Everyone’. We couldn't agree more and so we set out to...

October 2024 Volunteer South was pleased to be able to support Otago Student Volunteer Army (SVA) and UniCrew in their response to the recent flooding...

September 2024 Written by Emma Kent I have volunteered with QT Community CATs for around 3 years now. It began as an opportunity to take a young lady...

September 2024 Wanaka volunteer Chris Mawson says that being an Adult Buddy to the young friend he met through the Buddy Programme has given him a new...

September 2024 Repair Cafes are back for Spring! At these free community events volunteer fixers share their skills and knowledge to help you fix your...

September 2024 Guy Kennedy, Chairman of Wanaka Backyard Trapping, starts his volunteering story talking about a rat. “I was working from my home in Au...