For Christine Nugent, volunteering is simply an extension of what she has always done. “I grew up in country NSW, and although I didn’t know it, I’ve probably been volunteering all my life,” says Christine, who grew up in Walgett and now lives in Epping. “If someone around Walgett needed help, everyone would pitch in; [...]
After many years as a business analyst and project manager for big companies, Stephen Lodge felt thwarted by the speed of technology. “I worked at telecoms, finance and tech companies but things changed so quickly that many projects were scrapped before completion – the market and technology had moved on so the job had different [...]
Elizabeth Carroll comes from a community-minded family, and a fascinating, community-oriented career. Now retired, Elizabeth prioritises her immediate neighbours in the Vasey Housing village where she lives at Hunters Hill, and also the wider Ryde-Hunters Hill community where she delivers meals as a Sydney Community Services volunteer. Elizabeth worked for the Reservations Team at Air [...]
Volunteer gardeners happy working in anyone's outdoors It seems we have a wonderfully strong community of helpful and generous people. When Australia realised the corona virus was serious in March, we put out a call for volunteers and we heard a resounding ‘yes’ from more than a hundred people offering to help! We [...]
Like most of us, she’s not visiting anyone at the moment, but Beth Spence usually visits a lady in New Horizons nursing home at Ryde each week. She’s a volunteer for our Community Visitors Scheme, which matches volunteer visitors with people who otherwise risk being socially isolated. Back in 1937, during one of Australia’s worst [...]
The volunteering bug seems to have bitten Eileen Lim since her retirement from marketing – for which she planned things she’d never tried before. She now has a packed schedule: Tuesdays and Wednesdays she volunteers as a curatorial research assistant at the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, working with her cousin who is the Senior Fashion [...]
People are often confused about how Sydney Community Services is funded. Some think we are part of Council, others that we are part of NSW Government, others that we are a business– or a mixture of the above. Our funding comes from several places – in most cases is tied to one of the [...]
Reza Alizadeh volunteered at Sydney Community Services even before he retired. He was working as a handyman elsewhere and had a day off mid-week, so he put his hand up for similar work supporting SCS’s Home Modifications and Maintenance team. This team of qualified tradesmen does everything from small jobs through to retrofitting ramps and [...]
The Botanic Gardens Community Greening team and Sydney Community Services (SCS) volunteer gardeners collaborate to develop community gardens for social housing residents in Hunters Hill. Two wonderfully industrious days in June saw the two teams replace decrepit garden beds that produced fruit and vegies, herbs and flowers for Meyers Ave residents for many years. Meyers [...]
Denis Morris has been helping people out one way or another since the early 1980s. After the army he became a taxi driver and was still driving cabs when he became a director of Lane Cove Golf Club in the early 1980s and, with others, helped “turn the club around”. He kept working voluntarily for [...]
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