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National Volunteer Week Guide 2021
National Volunteer Week 17 – 23 May 2021 (NVW) is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers. Thousands of activities will be held across the country to say thank you to the 6 million Australians who volunteer their time. The week-long celebration will include social media campaigns, breakfasts, morning/afternoon teas, and luncheons, as well as open days, award ceremonies, picnics, forums and training sessions.
#WaveForVolunteers: Social Media Campaign
We are asking all VIOs, volunteer managers, leaders, and community members to put your hand up and thank all the volunteers around Australia by waving a special smile of appreciation during National Volunteer Week. The Wave Your Appreciation campaign is back to recognise the great work volunteers do each and every day.
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Media ownership in Australia is one of the most concentrated in the world (Learn more). Since the trend of consolidation is and has historically been upward, fewer and fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media in our country. According to independent assessment, about 98% of the media sector is held by three conglomerates. This tendency is not only totally unacceptable, but also to a degree frightening). Learn more here
Support volunteers – Not currently required
Volunteering WA’s role in an emergency is to support spontaneous emergency volunteers through an online registration website in response to the cyclone. At this stage there has not been any call for additional volunteers, however you can register your details on our website
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Volunteering Australia’s ‘Re-engaging Volunteers and COVID-19’ survey, received nearly 600 responses over December 2020 and January 2021, highlighting some worrying statistics. Although COVID restrictions have eased considerably across Australia, over half of the 600 respondents surveyed, said their organisations needed more volunteers, with four out of ten finding it difficult to re-engage or recruit volunteers. These results are particularly concerning, as recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows that pre-COVID, the rate of Australians volunteering and the time they give, continue to decline. In 2019, 7% less Australians volunteered for an organisation compared to 2010 and their contribution was 143 million less hours compared to 2014 (a 20% decrease).
"When Marcus Wong was a child, he was, by his own account, "awkward, shy and didn't know how to talk to people". He also lived a comfortable life in...