Celebration Stories: National Volunteer Week 2025
May 2025 Proud of your volunteers? We want to hear their story! National Volunteer Week is 15–22 June 2025, and Volunteer South is calling for Celebra...
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Volunteer Voices - "Could not have been more friendly & welcoming." - Lisa Gould & Shelley Charlton
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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Volunteer Voices - "It's one of my happy places." - Leigh Dumpleton
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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Volunteer Story: "Parkrun is all inclusive in every way" - Chenin Madden
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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Youth volunteers make tremendous impact across Central Lakes
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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Ōtepoti business ‘Closed for Good’ - employees volunteer for the day!
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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Volunteer Stories: Jaime Borsboom and Julia & Damien Donovan: Lake Hawea Community Centre
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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Celebrating Volunteer Superpowers | International Volunteer Day 2024
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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Otago Flood Recovery: The Power of Collaboration
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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Volunteer Voices: "If it wasn't for volunteering, I don't know if I would have made it." - Emma Kent
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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