March 2025 Lisa Gould started off walking parkrun with her partner and two girls, but soon enough the whole family was volunteering! When they realise...
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February 2025 Leigh Dumpleton (she/her) was looking for connection when she came to make Wānaka home in September last year. She found it in spades wh...
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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...
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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...
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December 2024 The team at ADInstruments (ADI) have a wonderful initiative called ‘Closed for Good’, where the team heads out to various community grou...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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