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The City of Surrey provides a variety of volunteer-led drop-in activities, events and clubs for adult/55+ members. Volunteer Recreation Activity Assistants are instrumental in supporting staff in offering these services; in turn, they contribute to the health and wellbeing of participants and the community.

Thank you for your interest in this volunteer position. We are not accepting new applications at this time, please check back later. 

The English Conversation Program offers a positive and welcoming environment for people from diverse culture and background to practice English and meet others in the community. With the support from the Diversity and Inclusion staff team, volunteers design program materials and facilitate learning and interactions.

The provision of food services is an integral part of seniors programs at recreation centres. Food Service Assistants play an important role in the operation and delivery of this service.

Try It: 55+ Sports and Games are FREE activities that encourage physical activity, maintain mobility and support social and health benefits.

The Try It 55+ Sports and Games Assistants play a significant role in facilitating a positive learning experience to participants who are new to the activities of their choice. 

The WALKit Activity Program offers weekly walk on Wednesday at various locations. Age friendly walking routes are planned using the WALKit Web Map to explore different neighborhoods in the city.

As WALKit Activity Assistant, volunteers support the program by engaging community members on the walk, meet new people, and get some exercise! 

The Assistant Swim Instructor plays an important role to assist Swim Instructors in leading games, activities and stroke correction, promote water safety and skills  and facilitate a positive learning experience for swim lesson participants.

The Patron Support Assistant plays an important role to facilitate a positive experience for patrons at the Women and Girls Swim sessions. Please note that this is a Women & Girls swim only. Only female applicants will be considered for this volunteer position. This volunteer role will perform their duties mostly in the facility lobby and on the pool deck.

The Public Swim Assistant volunteers help to provide a safe and fun environment for community members during public swim sessions.   

Event volunteers assist our events team with the preparation and execution of programming at our major events throughout the year.

City Wide Special Events include: Party for the Planet, SPARK, Surrey Canada Day, Fusion Festival, Tree Lighting Festival

Event volunteers assist our community events team with the preparation and execution of programming at various community events throughout the year.

Community events include: Fleetwood Festival, South Surrey Festival, Family Day, Halloween, Breakfast with Santa and many more!

Emergency Support Services (ESS) Level 2 Volunteer Responders assist staff in helping evacuees at temporary reception centres in City facilities. The short term assistance includes shelter, food, clothing and family reunification. 

This is a program that provides short-term basic support to people who have been displaced from the home due to a disaster.  For level 1, this often occurs during events such as house fires where the resident does not have insurance to cover their losses.  ESS provides 72 hours of support in the form of housing, food and clothing.  Volunteers respond any time of day or night when the event occurs to help people in their worst hour.

These events run at any time of year and any time of day or night when an event occurs that evacuates approximately 1-12 people from their place of residence.

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The HomeSafe program reduces public risk of becoming injured in a house fire by educating the public on the importance of having a working smoke alarm.  Working smoke alarms have been proven to save lives but are often disconnected or eventually stop working.  Volunteers conducting HomeSafe go door to door to remind residents to check the working condition of existing smoke alarms. This program began in 2009 and has been proven to reduce the number of house fires and save lives.

This event runs on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30-8:30pm and Saturdays from 12:30-3:30.

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Volunteer in a supported social recreation program for children with disabilities. Activities include crafts, painting, games in the gymnasium and much more. Learn new skills in communicating visually and verbally to provide the best experience for participants. 

Boccia, a Paralympic sport for individuals with physical disabilities. Learn new physical skills while having fun with trained staff and learning support strategies along the way.

During large events, the City of Surrey offer Sensory Spaces as calm and quiet areas with activities and seating designed to be supportive for those with sensory sensitivities to recharge. Volunteers help set up, manage the space, and clean-up after the event.