Volunteer with us

Volunteering plays a key part in developing our community’s sense of belonging, worth and resilience. It also can provide great individual benefits such as making new friends, learning new skills and helping someone in need.

We recognise the significant impact volunteer involvement has on achieving our strategic goals and the delivery of a range of services and initiatives. Our volunteers are engaged across a broad range of activities ranging from aiding in social support, gardening, transport and domestic assistance, landcare and coastcare, representation on council committees, as well as events support and other community programs.

We are working towards developing a framework that incorporates the values and maximises the benefits of volunteer involvement. This will not only involve developing effective strategies and practices to assist us in managing all aspects of volunteering across council, but also to ensure that the rights of our volunteers are protected and they are supported to carry out their roles and responsibilities.

Council volunteering opportunities

Clarence Community Volunteer Service

The Clarence Community Volunteer Service offers a range of services to residents of Clarence to support them to remain living within their own homes and connect to their local community.

Services provided include:

Befriending
Shopping assistance
Transport
Light gardening
Telephone support
Dog walking

The Clarence Community Volunteer Service program continues to need volunteers who are passionate about supporting individuals to achieve their goals. Time commitments are flexible and can be tailored with each volunteer to ensure it fits around their own commitments and availability.

For more information, contact the Clarence Community Volunteer Service on 03 6217 9630 or email ccvs@ccc.tas.gov.au

You can register to volunteer with us by submitting an online form here.

Landcare and coastcare

We actively support and manage many land and coastcare groups throughout the municipality, from the coast to rugged hilltops. These groups are guided by reserve activity plans, a volunteer workers manual and can receive extra support from our annual land and coastcare grants program. Group activities include traditional weeding and planting as well as partnering with other organisations to engage the broader community via interpretation and education of natural and cultural values.

Landcare and coastcare groups in Clarence

Acton Park Landcare
Bellerive Bluff Landcare and Coastcare
Bellerive – Howrah Coastcare
Friends of Ralphs Bay
Geilston Bay Rivulet – South Bank
Glebe Hill Reserve Landcare
Lauderdale Coastcare
Limekiln Point Coastcare
Meehan Range Trail Groomers
Mortimer Bay Coastcare
Mt.Rumney Landcare
Natone Hill Landcare
Pipe Clay Coastcare
Rosny – Montagu Bay Coastcare
Seven Mile Beach Coastcare
South Arm Opossum Bay Coastcare
Tranmere – Clarence Plains Landcare and Coastcare
Waverley Flora Park
Wildcare Deslacs

Most groups hold monthly working bees on Saturdays or Sundays and new volunteers are always welcome. To get involved, choose a group you would like to join and then email the Natural Areas Volunteer Coordinator at landcare@ccc.tas.gov.au with the group’s name and we’ll provide you with more information on how to get started.

Bus drivers

We provide the service of a community bus for community groups in Clarence who find it difficult to access other forms of transport.

The Clarence community bus would not be able to operate without the generous support of volunteer drivers, who enable the bus to be available to community groups as often as possible.

Volunteer bus drivers must have all the current licences required for driving the 22 seater community bus:

Current Working with Vulnerable People;
Public Passenger Vehicle (PPV); and
Light, medium and heavy rigid license.

If you already have these licences, we can process your application and provide an induction to the bus as soon as practical.

If you do not have the necessary licence requirements but are still interested in volunteering as a driver, we can provide financial assistance to help you acquire the PPV and medium to heavy rigid licences.

For more information about these options or to register your interest, please contact us on 03 6217 9500 or complete and return the below form:

Volunteer-Bus-Driver-Expression-of-Interest-Form

Special committees of council

Management committees are appointed as Special Committees of Council under the provisions of Section 24 of the Local Government Act 1993 for various purposes. Appointments to these management committees are made at committee annual general meetings, held between 1 September and 15 December each year on a date determined by the respective committee. Find out more about these committees on our Special Committees of Council page.

Volunteer with us