PTBOCanada Featured Post: Find Your Ideal Role In the Community With Volunteer Peterborough
/If you’re seeking places to volunteer in Peterborough, a new service helps you find opportunities in a snap. Volunteer Peterborough has created a matchmaking portal where you can find roles that suit your interests.
Volunteer Gary Therrien gives his electronics testing role at Habitat for Humanity’s Restore a thumbs up.
As a result, it shows you:
Where to volunteer in Peterborough
How to volunteer in Peterborough
Listings of volunteer jobs in Peterborough
Volunteer opportunities in Peterborough
Whether you want to volunteer at an animal shelter or a shelter’s kitchen, we show you where to go. Perhaps you want to earn your student volunteer hours. We can help with that too!
Where to volunteer in Peterborough
Did you know that more than 170 organizations in Peterborough tap into volunteer power? That means you have a wide range of causes to speak to your heart. Everything from sports teams to fire departments rely on donated talent to keep our community humming.
Now, which one best suits you? When you sign on with Volunteer Peterborough, we ask you about your interests so you discover a cause that speaks to your heart.
With the highest rate of retirement in decades, we have a large pool of talented people with more free time on their hands than ever before. At the same time, hundreds of new people have moved to our region and have yet to find a cause that speaks to them.
Our portal bridges that gap.
Places to volunteer in Peterborough
You can find interesting and vital roles all over Peterborough County. Naturally, many charities run programs and events in the city of Peterborough. However, you can always volunteer close to home no matter where you live.
For instance, Community Care operates in eight different communities within the Peterborough region. Each municipality also has its own sports league, fundraisers and vital committees.
At 4th Line Theatre, volunteers greet visitors at the canteen.
If you live in Millbrook, you can act or hand out programs at 4th Line Theatre. In Lakefield, why not help out at the literary festival or jazz festival? Using the map function on the Volunteer Peterborough site helps you home in on what’s close by for you.
How to volunteer in Peterborough this week
Volunteering with the right organization for you is the most rewarding way to share your skills and enrich your life. Volunteers perform at their best when they feel valued, connected and needed.
Of course, it’s easier to stay committed when a volunteer opportunity fits your schedule. If you only have an hour or two to share a month, you can set your parameters to only see roles like that.
Perhaps you want to volunteer with your coworkers or grandchildren. We can filter for group activities as well. By using a series of checkboxes, you can narrow down your search so you get exactly what you want.
In some cases, you may discover you have a weekend open. Scan our events to see where you can step in to help with an event. Why not seize the moment when one comes along?
To stay connected, you can also create an account. That way, organizations can reach out to you when needed and we can alert you when a new role comes up that matches your interests. That way, organizations can also reach out to you if your skills match their needs.
The Peterborough Humane Society welcomes volunteers to socialize their resident dogs.
Animal shelter volunteers in Peterborough
Since so many people love their pets, we get frequent requests about how to become an animal shelter volunteer. It may surprise you to find out how many charities serve animals in Peterborough.
We have discovered at least nine charities that work with cats, dogs, horses, other mammals and reptiles. Consequently, you can help care for or socialize animals or support people who draw on their healing powers.
It’s up to you.
Student volunteers in Peterborough
Every high school student requires 40 hours of volunteer time to graduate in Ontario. So, where can you go to find a placement close to home that also piques your teen’s interest?
Some organizations warmly welcome young volunteers for their energy and curiosity. However, others prefer older volunteers due to the serious responsibilities of their work. In short, by looking for roles specifically flagged for students, you’ll more easily tap into the right role sooner.
Crestwood Secondary School students volunteering at Cavan FC soccer camp.
Why volunteer in Peterborough?
Overall, our organization aims to revitalize volunteer-driven organizations and engage more residents in community building. And we want you to have fun while meeting new people.
Offering your time to a good cause pays off in so many great ways:
increases your life satisfaction, happiness and self-understanding
widens your social networks
introduces new skills
improves your mental and physical health
gives more understanding of problems and empowers you to resolve them.
In general, you make the place you live better.
To reap these benefits and more, you can take these steps:
Go to VolunteerPeterborough.ca/ to set up a profile and look for roles for you
Keep volunteering if you’ve already started.
Invite others to do the same to make volunteering contagious.
