Volunteer for an annual event | Ways to volunteer | Youth Central

If you’re too busy to volunteer regularly, you could try volunteering at an annual event during the year.

Like all kinds of volunteering, helping out at an annual event can help you:

  • gain new skills and experiences
  • meet all kinds of people.

Here's a list of some annual events where you can volunteer.

For more organisations seeking volunteers, and tips about getting into volunteering, visit Volunteer.vic, the Victorian Government's volunteering website.

March

The World’s Greatest Shave

Help raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Organise your own World's Greatest Shave Day or just participate in their annual event.

Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal

Get involved by collecting donations, holding an event to raise money or helping out in the phone rooms during the Appeal.

Harmony Day

National Harmony Day is a chance to celebrate our diverse country. You can organise your own event, participate in Harmony Day events or even just wear orange for the day.

Red Cross Calling Appeal

Become a volunteer and participate in the door knock collection to raise money to help people affected by emergencies.

Clean Up Australia Day

Get together with your schoolmates or workmates, or join a local clean-up crew and help to collect rubbish and clean up your local community.

April

Make a Wish Day

Volunteer to sell merchandise to help this foundation help children and young people with a life-threatening illness by granting their most cherished wishes.

Walk Against Want

Help raise money for Oxfam by taking part in an organised event, organising your own or volunteering to help out on the day.

May

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Run by The Cancer Council, this fun event helps raise funds for cancer research. Organise a morning tea event at your school or workplace.

65 Roses Day

Major fundraising event for Cystic Fibrosis in Australia (CF), based on the story of a little boy who could not pronounce his sister's condition and instead called it ‘65 roses’. Buy or sell wristbands, ribbons, pens or pins to help raise funds for CF.

Sleep at the 'G

Join more than 1,000 people for a fun night at the iconic MCG. Sleep on a cardboard box in solidarity with young people experiencing homelessness and raise vital funds to support Melbourne City Mission.

Starlight Day

This event is organised by the Starlight Foundation to raise funds for children and families who live with serious illness and hospitalisation. Help out by selling merchandise or holding your own fundraising Star Party.

June

Red Nose Day

Raise money to support Red Nose. Get involved by volunteering to sell raffle tickets or red noses, or by buying and wearing a red nose.

July

National Tree Day

Help out by planting native trees and shrubs at a Tree Day site in your local area to provide food and shelter for Australia's wildlife, increase native biodiversity and combat habitat loss.

August

Jeans for Genes

Major fundraiser for the Children's Medical Research Institute. You can help out on Jeans for Genes Day in your workplace or school or by helping to collect donations or selling Jeans for Genes Day products.

40 Hour Famine

Help to raise money for poor communities. Go without food, technology, furniture or something else that really matters to you.

Daffodil Day

Volunteer to sell merchandise on Daffodil Day to raise money for cancer research.

October

OneDay to Conquer Cancer

Grab your friends and join the quest to conquer cancer and support the 84 Victorians each day who hear the words, ‘You have cancer’.

November

Movember

Guys, grow your mo' and raise cash from your mates for doing so! Supports the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue.

Further information

Volunteer.vic

Information from the Victorian Government for volunteers and volunteer organisations.

Volunteering Victoria

Find out about volunteering opportunities near you and how you can get involved.

GoVolunteer

General information about volunteering and a directory of volunteer opportunities in your area.