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City of Wollongong

Volunteering

Giving your time to help other people is one of the most rewarding things you can do. Volunteering can also help you build new skills and meet new people.

The NSW Centre for Volunteering website is your guide to searching for volunteering opportunities across the region, as well as resources for volunteers and organisations.

Volunteer roles at Council

Many of the services we provide rely on the support of volunteers.

Watch the video below to hear from some of the great people who volunteer their time in different ways.

Please note, for some volunteer roles we may ask for a Police check or a Working With Children check.

Wollongong Art Gallery has volunteers who work in many art-related areas, such as:

  • Gallery guides
  • Front of house and administration
  • Installing exhibitions
  • Research
  • Workshop assistants.

Visit the Gallery's Volunteer page to learn more.

If you love being outdoors, sustainability or working with plants, one of our environment volunteer roles could be perfect for you.

  • Bushcare has more than 60 groups across our city working to regenerate natural areas.
  • Dunecare volunteers work on beach dunes to manage plants and keep them free of weeds and rubbish.
  • Marine Estate Champions Program is an initiative of the NSW Government, Wollongong City Council and Shellharbour City Council that empowers residents to get hands-on to protect and restore Lake Illawarra.
  • Fiready is a volunteer program that clears potential bush fire fuel near residential areas.
  • Friends of Wollongong Botanic Garden work in many different ways to support the Garden and its conservation work.
  • Greenhouse Park is a former builders’ tip just south of Wollongong that has been turned into an eco-park.
  • Indian Myna Bird Action Program volunteers help to control an urban pest that threatens native birds and animals.
  • Picitup Program volunteers collect rubbish in their own time from public areas and record what they find to help us fight littering.
  • Rise and Shine is a long-running environmental campaign with volunteering opportunities like planting, weeding and cleaning up natural areas.

If you're part of a community or corporate group, and are interested in getting a team together to take part in one of these programs, call us on (02) 4227 7111.

Many of our community events have a broad range of volunteer roles.

Volunteering is a great way to get an introduction to event management, and to see some of your favourite events from behind the scenes.

Some of our regular events that welcome volunteers include:

Email us or call (02) 4227 7111 if you’d like to volunteer at a Council event.

Volunteers are welcome to join our Community Partnerships program and help remove illegal graffiti on non-Council buildings. People taking part will remove graffiti from publicly accessible land only. No ladders, climbing or high-pressure equipment is involved.

You can join this program as an individual, or as a community group.

We’ll provide graffiti removal training and equipment to help with removal.

To take part or for more information, email us or call (02) 4227 7111.

Wollongong City Libraries have volunteers who work in areas such as:

  • Home Library Service
  • Adult events and programs
  • Tech Savvy sessions
  • Children’s and youth programs
  • Local Studies
  • One-off promotions and events
  • Comic Gong.

Drop into a library branch, our visit the libraries' website to find out more.

Dedicated volunteers help to care for some of the general and historic cemeteries across our city.

For more information, visit the Wollongong Memorial Gardens website or call (02) 4227 7780.

Volunteers in our Living Books program share their interesting life stories with other people in group conversations.

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