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How does your region keep its volunteer heart strong?
Volunteering has always held regional communities together. But the way people volunteer is changing, and the organisations that depend on it need to change with them. Has your region already figured this out?
- Connect with like-minded people from across Australia who share an interest in driving change on this challenge
- Help identify and nominate regions and case studies already taking real steps on the challenge
- Contribute to what a meaningful local goal for this challenge could look like with the conversation continuing at the Social Impact in the Regions conference in September in Stanthorpe
- Add your name to those making a meaningful contribution to change
Inspiring this Challenge
Volunteering is not a nice-to-have in regional communities. It is the operating system. Events, emergency services, aged care, sport, governance: all of it runs on volunteers.
But the pool is changing. New residents don’t always find it easy to find their way in. Many community groups find it hard to attract younger members, lifestyles and the cost of living don’t always permit time for volunteering, and the same small group of experienced people is carrying governance loads across multiple organisations, with compliance and red tape adding to the weight.
The organisations that find ways to welcome new volunteers while sustaining the ones they have are doing something that’s worth sharing.