Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer at Uniting AgeWell.
If you would like to speak to us before applying, you can email us directly at volunteers@untingagewell.org or contact us on 139 375.
Alternatively, you can complete an application form and we will be in touch to discuss available roles with you.
A few things to consider:
Volunteers at Uniting Agewell make a real difference to the lives of older people in our community. Our team will support you to obtain the following, at no cost to you:
- National Police Check
- Working with Children Check
- Yearly Flu Vaccination
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Social Connections
Opportunities available in Metropolitan Melbourne and Grampians regions
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Group Activities Volunteer at one of our sites and support a range of activities, including:
Group locations include: Ivanhoe, Forest Hill, Noble Park, Mornington, Hawthorn, Geelong, Braybrook, Burwood, Kingsville, Hobart, Launceston, Ararat, Wantirna, Mount Waverley
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Dog Walking Volunteers provides short, supported dog walks for customers who are unable to walk their dog themselves. Volunteers collect the dog from the customer’s home, take them for a short walk, and return the dog with a brief update. |
Tech Buddies Volunteers provides short-term, one-to-one practical technology support for customers in their own home. Support is tailored to the customer’s goals, pace and level of confidence. |
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Meals on Wheels Swan Hill township only
As a Meals on Wheels volunteer you will help deliver a vital service that helps people in our community stay healthy, independent and connected.
Suitable for weekdays only weekdays between 11am and 1pm.
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Community Transport and Assisted Shopping Our community transport drivers assist Uniting Agewell customers in Ballarat, Ararat and surrounding areas to attend important medical appointments or shopping. Uniting Agewell fleet cars are used for this service.
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Garden With Me
Uniting AgeWell customers need support in a variety of way at home! Speak to our team about what opportunities are available in:
Suitable for weekdays and weekends
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Biography Writing Volunteers support customers to reflect on and record their life story, experiences and achievements. This service may be suitable for customers who enjoy conversation, reflection, legacy work or sharing their life experiences.
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Palliative Support Volunteers provide companionship and emotional support to customers with life-limiting illness. Volunteers may also support legacy activities, spiritual or religious needs, and connection during end-of-life care. Volunteers can assist customers with navigating available supports, including use of the HELP App where appropriate.
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Have something else in mind? Reach out to discuss your interests and skills so that we can find an opportunity to match
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I would like to volunteer
Get Social
Where you can make a difference
Individual Social Support (home and community)
Social Support - Individual
We support older people to maintain an active social life by having someone visit them at home or in a supported residential service, or through community outings. The programs are also available to adults with disability. We have an amazing, passionate group of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds, supported by staff, who provide social interaction and companionship to help prevent loneliness and isolation. We’re always looking for more volunteers too.
The social support program was established in 1977, and remains one of our most popular services today with a range of flexible activity options. The program helps people participate in and reconnect with their community, by pairing volunteers with older people to spend regular time together, either individually or as part of a group.
Consumers and volunteers might simply meet regularly for a chat but might also spend time sharing interests, playing boards games and cards or enjoying activities like coffee outings, local drives, walks and shared meals. Group activities may include movies, lunches and craft. We also offer a fun program that provides pet companionship.
Social Support operates across Metropolitan Melbourne, Ballarat and the Grampians regions.
Johnson’s story
Johnson, 27, works two jobs but still finds a few hours each week to make a difference to the lives of clients Jerome and Veronica and help them get back to the things they love. Johnson’s fresh face and energy is a wonderful injection of happiness into the lives of the married couple. Jerome’s health means the couple are often house-bound with limited contact with friends and family. But when Johnson visits, their house is filled with the sound of lively discussions on social issues and politics – subjects Jerome loves, while Veronica can take break from her full time role as carer.
"I think the social support program has achieved an amazing thing – bringing us together to explore cultures and world events from Veronica and Jerome’s living room!" - Johnson
Social Support Groups
Social Support Groups
Older people living independently can sometimes experience social isolation.
Our activity groups provide a range of programs that promote independence and wellbeing among our clients, as well as provide multicultural connections in the community. Activities are flexible, based on the needs of participants.
Supported by trained staff and volunteers, the groups also provide valuable respite for carers.
Activities include:
- Social lunches
- Gentle exercise programs
- Conversations and companionship
- Art and craft
- Computer skills
- Sing-a-longs and musical concerts
- Groups with a multicultural focus
- Talks and information sessions
- Regular outings – picnics, garden shows, historical places of interest
- Outings – local events, historical places of interest, picnics
- Woodwork, gardening and craft
- Weekly men’s and women’s groups
- Cultural groups
- Guest speakers and entertainers
- Crosswords and word games
- Painting classes
Telephone based social support
Telephone Based Social Support
Chat-a-Ring
Through Chat-a-Ring, people get a call from a volunteer each week or fortnight to connect through a chat, read the newspaper or magazine together, share a crossword, quiz or game, or perhaps record a life story.
Telelink
Telelink is a telephone support program for groups of up to 10 people across Melbourne, who chat together each week on the phone from the comfort of their own homes.
Telelink is a great way to make new friends and discuss shared interests with like-minded people. Participants choose from a range of weekly topics that match their hobbies and interests, from books to history and trivia, as well as language groups
Community Transport (Ballarat & Ararat)
Community Transport Services
Providing door-to-door supported services for older people, or those who have a disability and their care providers. Clients are taken to medical appointments, shopping, to visit friends or relatives. Clients are collected from their door and transported to where they have to go i.e. taken to the reception area of the doctors rooms or taken to a hospital.
Volunteers drivers do not act as care providers, and do not assist clients with dressing, medical or financial matters. Drivers do not stay with clients while they attend appointments or shopping.
This service does not aim to act as or to replace a taxi or bus service, but to provide a service to people who are unable to afford, or access, other means of public transport, or need extra assistance.
Community Transport operates across Ballarat and the Grampians regions.
Vision and Values
Our Vision
A national leader, creating thriving and inclusive communities where innovative, high quality aged care services are delivered with respect and kindness.
Our Values
As an organisation of the Uniting Church in Australia, our values are the foundation of all that we do at Uniting AgeWell – how we work, how we behave and how we respond to the needs and aspirations of those we serve, our colleagues and our communities.
