I love these handmade signs on the tables in a local cafe run by a charitable trust (#aimhigh) cafe that supports and provides employment for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities.
The cafe is a liminal space for me right now. After 13 years as a trustee of a similar organisation, I recently stepped down from the board and am now looking for a new #volunteering opportunity.
Eine superspannende, wenn auch sehr anstrengende #bergwaldprojekt Woche im wunderschönen Val Medel in der Südostschweiz liegt hinter mir.
In 5 Tagen befreiten wir den Bergwald oberhalb von Curaglia von den Überresten der Durchforstung, um für neue Bäume Platz zu schaffen.
Wir bauten Wildschutz-Zäune, um dem Wildverbiss entgegenzuwirken.
Und schließlich pflanzten wir junge Weißtannen, Lärchen und Kiefern.
Und das alles wie immer (!) mit einer astreinen Organisation, sehr netten und kompetenten GruppenleiterInnen und perfekter Verpflegung!
Für einen robusteren (Berg-)Wald von morgen.
#freiwillig #freiwilligenarbeit #volunteering #ehrenamt #schweiz #alps #graubuenden #mountains #nature #naturelovers #naturschutz
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In pictures: Alice Springs celebrates 30 years of unique craft festival
By Victoria Ellis
As the Alice Springs Beanie Festival celebrates its 30th and final year, we're exploring the weird and wonderful handmade creations — and the characters working hard behind the scenes — that have made the annual event so special.
#ArtsFestivals #CommunityandCulturalEvents #Craft #Volunteering #RegionalCommunities #LibrariesMuseumsandGalleries #VictoriaEllis
As the Alice Springs Beanie Festival celebrates its 30th and final year, we're exploring the weird and wonderful handmade creations — and the characters working hard behind the scenes — that have made the annual event so special.
I tried to look for local #art charities because I have some materials and skills to donate that might be value to artists.
I found some interesting ones but they don't have contact emails.
This is a recurring problem with trying to get involved with anything. Even if they do have an email address, you don't get a response because probably no one is monitoring it.
And even then they might not be interested in what you have to offer.
But it's always easy to donate money. There's always a donate button without fail as long as it's money. But donating other skills isn't so easy. Yet they always ask for people to get involved.
Embattled National Trust of SA to front inquiry over volunteer complaints
By George Yankovich
An outpouring of discontent among National Trust volunteers in recent months has led state parliament to inquire into "accountability and oversight" concerns within the major conservation group.
#CommunityOrganisations #Volunteering #History #StateandTerritoryParliament #GeorgeYankovich
There's a very clear answer to which is more effective, #charity or #volunteering—but then it turns out to be more complicated than it first appears... in a good way. TL;DR everyone has the power to do good.
My local #regionalburn just got canceled. The announcement stated the reason as not enough volunteers for lead positions (I think the fediverse and the burnerverse have some things in common). However, there is still drama, I think: some people were treated pretty badly by upper leadership of the organization in past years, and there has never been any public acknowledgment of that. Now a couple of those people are volunteering for the positions that apparently are unfilled and the reason for the entire event being canceled, and at least one has been told publicly (i.e., in the FB group) that their help is not wanted or needed, because now they've got new leadership.
The response to lingering questions about shitty treatment in the past seems to get a similar response: New leadership who dis?
I suspect the drama will continue, which is too bad because the event was always amazing and wonderful break from the default world.
#leadership #regionalburns #drama #accountability #volunteering
This morning, @mbroome and I became part of a well-oiled machine that turns trees into firewood and chipper fodder... (And by "well-oiled", I mean "sweating so much you could have wrung out my undershirt and took a bath in it" - it was literally 100°F by the time we finished, and I don't even want to contemplate what the heat index must have been.) 🥵
We were volunteering at a tree-felling workday on The Archaeological Conservancy land in Hillsborough - theoretically we were going to be mostly in the shade (working in the woods, rather than finishing swamping the cleared meadow), but in practice I spent about half of our four hours there hauling brush and logs in full sun. ☀️ Thank Ghu for Skratch...
Before-and-after pics are from the first two trees I swamped - we would have bucked the second tree too, but the sawyer I was supporting ran out of chainsaw gas before he even finished limbing it. I took off the last dozen limbs with my handsaw (favorite new toy!), but there's no way in hell I was trying to cut up a trunk for firewood with a 9" handsaw, even if it is super efficient Japanese steel.
(No pics from the third and fourth tree because I was too hot - and so was my phone!)
#volunteering #outside #SweatIsGood #AirConditioningIsBetter
Hundreds of regional firefighters rally against levy in Bendigo
By Nate Woodall, Jean Bell, and Tyrone Dalton
Hundreds of regional Victorian firefighters turn out for a rally in Bendigo, calling on the state government to scrap a controversial levy after saying they have been "left behind".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/cfa-firefighters-volunteer-rally-protest-bendigo/106775498
#Bushfires #Volunteering #StateandTerritoryParliament #NateWoodall #JeanBell # #TyroneDalton
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