We help people in many different ways.

Volunteer your existing skills or learn something new.

Volunteer

There are many ways of helping Lifeline. Volunteers can make a real difference in the community - in both counselling and non-counselling roles. We need help in many areas and it would be unusual if we could not employ your skills in some form to help others.

Telephone Counselling Volunteers

Telephone counsellor training runs twice a year and covers a variety of communication and counselling skills, with both theoretical and experiential components.

Lifeline Harbour-to-Hawkesbury has around 160 active volunteer telephone counsellors who answer the 13 11 14 Crisis Counselling line, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Our Centre answers more than 22,000 calls each year and with your help we could answer even more.

Learn more about Telephone Counsellor Training!

Once on the phones, volunteers support callers with a wide variety of issues, including loneliness, relationships, domestic violence, abuse, gambling, drugs and alcohol mental health and suicide.

Volunteer Face-to-Face Counsellors

Lifeline face-to-face counsellors are also volunteers, who have been trained externally and accredited with CAPA, AASW or APS. The team works with an eclectic approach to counselling underpinned with a Rogerian philosophy. To find out about volunteering, email or phone Wendy (the manager of Counselling Services) on 9498 8805.

Some companies provide their staff for a day of community service each year. These teams are set to work on various projects such as bookfair help or painting our recycling bins.

'Op' Shop Volunteers

Our shops in Asquith raise vital funds in support of our services.

If you have some time to spare, we are currently looking for shop volunteers- call Mandy on 9476 5876 for information

Bookfair Volunteers

Our huge annual bookfair is Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury's major fundraising event each year. More than 80,000 donated books are individually priced and sorted into more than 50 categories. New volunteers are welcome to help sort books in the months prior to the bookfair & to help during the bookfair itself in July.

If you have an interest in books and a few hours to spare occasionally or regularly, enquire about joining our friendly bookfair team.

Other Volunteers

There are many other areas to help in. These include:

• helping the frail aged, or disabled people, to get to medical appointments
• joining a fundraising committee
• assisting in our shops at Asquith

... and much more. Mostly people volunteer a few hours each week or fortnight.

Find out more about Volunteering

Help us to help others. For more information, contact Elsa on 9498 8805 (or email).