• patient and family support
• fundraising
• cancer prevention and early detection
• administration

Volunteers play key roles as policy makers on the Executive Committee, as fundraisers for specific projects, as drivers ferrying patients to treatment, as distributors of information resources, as assistants with mail appeals, as coordinators of volunteer patient support teams. Volunteers are a link in the cancer community chain of care. They are the Society's partners in minimising the impact of cancer in the community.

We take care to ensure that everyone who volunteers for the Cancer Society has a rewarding experience, that your placement is of real benefit to the community and satisfying for you. Your interests and skills are taken into account when finding a role for you. We provide you with training and on-going education. Staff and other volunteers provide support and supervision. You have an opportunity to learn new skills, gain experience, make new friends, and have fun.

What Our Volunteers Say

A driver of 30 years experience has always noticed the gratitude and bravery of cancer patients that she meets. She considers that it has been a great privilege to be able to help people and to experience such warm appreciation.

A Breast Cancer Support Service volunteer of long standing says that she has great admiration for the way that these patients cope so courageously with their cancer and that over the years she has been inspired by many of the brave women that she has met.

One of the clerical volunteers at Richard Evans House says: "The people here are incredibly warm and friendly. The Cancer Society helps the community so much in terms of education, research and support services. I am so glad to be part of it.

Because of her paid work one of our volunteer drivers has had to decline a couple of times when the driving coordinator has called her regarding a trip to the hospital, but she says "that is the greatest thing about being a volunteer - you are allowed to say 'No' if it doesn't fit into your plans."

The volunteer currently coordinating the Daffodil Day collection boxes was originally taken on as a website research assistant. "Often people don't believe that they have got anything to offer, but the Society's ability to channel your skills and talents into different areas is fantastic".

A volunteer who became a driving coordinator after retiring from paid work: "I missed the contact that one enjoys when part of a large organisation, so voluntary work was useful for meeting people and keeping in touch with the community."

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