Volunteer

Thank you for considering a volunteer role at the Wellington City Mission. Volunteers are a vital part of our response to needs in the community.

We have a range of volunteer roles at Whakamaru, some of which are listed below. We are currently not taking any new volunteer applications until the new year while we focus on Christmas projects, but keep watching this space! We would love to hear from you in 2025.

Full training will be provided ahead of a new role. Each volunteer shift is 3.5 hours long. We recommend doing one shift per week. Shifts are available Monday-Saturday.

Volunteer Opportunities at Whakamaru:

With laundry and shower facilities available on-site at Whakamaru,Laundry Volunteers will assist with operating washing machines and dryers, as well as returning cleaned and dried laundry to owners. They will also guide individuals to the shower facilities.

Our Volunteer Hosts will welcome people to Whakamaru and help each person get where they need to go. Always engaging with visitors, our Volunteer Hosts will be great conversationalists and will be knowledgeable about the facilities on site at Whakamaru.

Our Social Supermarket Volunteers will re-stock shelves and refrigerators, pack shoppers’ bags, assist at checkouts (using a basic computer system) and help with cleaning the Supermarket.

A huge part of this role involves communicating directly with our shoppers, fostering genuine connections and helping to create a sense of belonging.

Keep the eye on our website for vacancy in the new year.

A Floating Volunteer will receive training for all the volunteer roles mentioned above and will be assigned to the role with the highest need on a given day. The Floating Volunteer will be confident and self-managing.  They will love the fact that no two shifts will be the same.

Please note, we do not have any ‘one off’ individual volunteer opportunities.

Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering at Wellington City Mission.  We are not taking any new volunteer applications until the new year while we focus on Christmas projects.  Watch this space in the new year and we would love to hear from you then.

Group Volunteering

We have a wide variety of groups who volunteer their time at the Wellington City Mission; schools, corporate, churches, community groups and more. There are various opportunities throughout the year for your group to get involved but mostly towards the end of the year in the lead up to Christmas. If you are interested in joining our group volunteering waiting list, please email volunteering@wcm.org.nz.  Alternatively, you might like to organise a fundraising event.  For more information about this please click here.

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