About us

Volunteering New Plymouth was established in 2002.
The main purpose of Volunteering New Plymouth is to assist ‘not for profit’ community groups in recruiting and retaining volunteers and to offer ongoing support to all community organisations and their volunteers. To do this we offer our service as a contact point for all volunteers and community agencies. We provide information about opportunities for volunteering, we raise community awareness of the importance of the work that is undertaken by volunteers, we organise recognition awards, we advocate on behalf of volunteers and community organisations at a local and national level and we provide a channel where resources can be shared, particularly in the training of volunteers and their coordinators/managers. We aim to help organisations recruit and retain volunteers and we support existing volunteers through free or low-cost training in order to increase their efficiency, effectiveness and capacity.

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Events and Trainings

Volunteering New Plymouth runs a number of events and trainings to support the not for profit sector. These include Volunteer Awareness Week activities, our annual Volunteer Recognition Awards, Volunteer Managers' recognition events, Volunteer 'snap shots' and the Volunteers Thank You event.

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Latest roles

Office Support

Ref: #00663

Help in Church Office with photocopying, laminating, word processing, meet & greet, answering phone. Variety of jobs.

Handy Person

Ref: #00662

We need volunteers to help with site maintenance. We are always needing to maintain or upgrade the site and this can be fixing the fence to prevent the goats from exploring, building new paths or dismantling pallets to use in our Building Mates programme or whatever is needed at that time. If you are handy and able to offer a few hours/a day a week (and preferably able to work in the rain if need be! ) we would love to have you join our lovely team of volunteers that enable the site to run smoothly. Such volunteers work alongside other volunteers and the Site Maintenance/Building Mates Co Ordinator has overall responsibility for all maintenance and health and safety on site. Volunteers need their own car (petrol vouchers given for petrol spent going to and fro) and lunch/tools and wet weather gear provided! Do get in touch. We are looking forward to you joining the team .


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