Volunteers make a difference! Local people’s generosity with their time their skills their resources are able to make a huge difference to the quality of our community. The possibilities for volunteering are changing all the time. Have a look at Forums – Our Community – Volunteering and Fundraising.

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Volunteers work in many ways for these local organisations:

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Vinnies::

There are various opportunities to volunteer through Vinnies locally. The shop on
Dawson Parade runs with volunteer staff.  The St William’s Craft Markets rely on a lot of volunteer help and the funds they raise go to support the activities of St Vincent de Paul’s locally. St Vincent de Paul’s also have a team of volunteers providing services to locals in need.

||||Lifeline::

Lifeline has a shop at Great Western Super Centre which operates with volunteer staff.

||||Neighbourhood Watch ::

  • Operates with a big team of Block Coordinators (each has about 10 homes to distribute to) 4 Zone Coordinators an Area Coordinator and a committee
  • There are a number of Areas active locally. The Ferny Grove Police Station is a good starting contact.

||||School tuckshops::

School tuckshops are usually looking for more volunteers to help prepare and serve lunches.

Ferny Grove State School – contact P&C

||||School fetes::

School P&Cs are always looking for more help when a school fete is coming up.

||||Community’s Transport Service::

Gives people in our community access to a range of local facilities including shopping centres medical appointments recreational activities swimming pools and community centres.

Volunteers needed to drive vehicles and conduct multiple pickups on a regular weekly schedule.

For information please contact Gerald McMillan on 3510 2709 or dts@community.org.au

||||School reading programs::

||||Wahminda Grove Bushcare Group::

||||Arana Leagues Club::

Arana Leagues Club is passionate about supporting the local community.

||||Sports club coaches and helpers::

Arana Ascot Junior Women’s Hockey Club -Hockey umpire coaching sessions are held. If interested contact the Club.

Ferny Grove Falcons

  • Become an umpire
  • The 100 Club is a group of people who have donated $100 to help Ferny Grove Falcons
  • Passionate about AFL? Interested in the development of Junior AFL in the Ferny Grove & surrounding suburbs? Want to promote your local business? Support the Ferny Grove Falcons Junior AFL Club. The Club is offering a variety of Sponsorship Packages (starting from $500 a season). Packages are available now. – Come on board & Fly with the Falcons! Ferny Chiropractic is a sponsor from The Grove.
    For further information call our Football Department Manager & Sponsorships Officer Gary Walsh on (0407) 490 368

Ferny Districts Cricket Club – Ferny Fireballs

Most of the local sports clubs will have opportunities for volunteers who want to get involved and help. There are lots of roles. Something to suit everyone!

||||State Emergency Services::

Arana Hills Group of SES has a regular intake of new recruits who undergo a three month introductory training program.

||||Pastoral care volunteers::

The volunteers we know of who do this mostly come from local churches but the nursing homes may also be able to direct you to the right people.

||||Friends of Arana Library::

This group of volunteers provides services to support the activities of the Library.

||||Bushcare groups::

The bush along the local creeks is cared for by teams of dedicated volunteers who weed and clear and revegetate.

Local groups include:

|||| Scouts Group and Girl Guides leaders::

Wahminda Park Scouts

Mitchelton-Grovely Scouts

These troups rely on people who have undergone training as leaders to provide their services voluntarily.

||||Justices of the Peace::

There are quite a few locals who have gone through the training program to become JPs and they offer a free service to the local community.

||||Collecting for charities::

A number of charities hold annual door-to-door collections and volunteers do the collecting. The Leukaemia Foundation and the Heart Foundation both hold collections locally.

||||School P&Cs::

Each local school has a P&C  (Parents & Community) organisition managing fund-raising and activities for the school such as tuck-shops clothes and bookshops fetes…

These rely on volunteers to get involved.

||||Clean Up Australia Day::

There are a lot of sites around The Grove for volunteers to help clean up parks and along the creeks and streets. The sites are registered each year with Clean Up Australia although the Brisbane City Council seems to like to do its own thing.

||||Mummy’s Wish::

Mummy’s Wish is an organisation that supports mums who are going through cancer treatment while also raising children.

The campaign also encourages people to donate blood as 34% of blood donations are for cncer patients.

Contact Cassandra Phillips Arana Hills

||||Service clubs::

Service clubs provide a service to the local community while enabling members to meet and socialise together regularly. Typically they will hold fund-raising events and act as sponsors for an organisation or program or they may carry out work such as clearing up an elderly person’s garden.

  • Golden Valley Keperra Lions
  • View Club
  • Mitchelton Rotary Club
  • The Hills & Districts Chamber of Commerce
  • Zonta
  • Keperra Kings

||||Brisbane Tramway Museum::

This local museum is open each Sunday and operated by volunteers.

||||Churches::

  • Most churches operate with a large team of helpers (music team set-up children’s church tea & coffee welcoming helping with outreach functions home visits group leaders home group leaders…)

10 large Christmas hampers have been distributed the families in need in The Grove made up by The Grove Community Church with help from the local school chaplains Damon Sara and Mel and some students from Ferny Grove Senior High School.

    ||||Transition The Grove::

    Get involved in Transition The Grove Sub-groups as little or as much as takes your interest. Choose one or more Subgroups you are interested in and where your skills and knowledge can make a difference.

    ||||Community Consultative Committees::

    There are a number of committees that meet regularly and provide input from the local community into government planning. There are local committees for health rail transport transport youth welfare…

    They can be hard to find out about but asking the local Member of Parliament Geoff Wilson is a good place to start.

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