• Volunteering Australia – www.volunteeringaustralia.org

• The Centre for Volunteering – www.volunteering.com.au

• NSW Volunteer Resource Centre www.volunteering.nsw.gov.au

• Volunteer Recruitment Online – www.govolunteer.com.au

• Australasian Volunteer Program Management – www.ozvpm.com

• Centrelink has a requirement for people over 55 who are receiving benefits to complete 15 hours volunteer work per week. There is information on their website about how you can request to be an approved voluntary work organisation and what your responsibilities will be: https://www.humanservices.gov.au/organisations/community/applying-be-approved-voluntary-work-organisation.

• There are volunteer resource centres in various areas see the listing of volunteer resource centres in NSW https://www.volunteering.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/List-of-Volunteer-Resource-Centres.pdf

• The Age-Friendly and Inclusive Volunteering Guide (UK) introduces six principles that organisations working with volunteers can adopt to address barriers to inclusion and widen participation. These include offering more flexibility, providing opportunities for volunteers to meet and spend time with other people, and making use of volunteers’ individual strengths.

• Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a community led approach originally developed John McKnight and John Kretzmann

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