Emergency Relief Volunteers
The Emergency Relief program and our Community Support program help Darebin residents with all sorts of matters.
As a volunteer you will be part of the team that supports people who live in your street, your neighbourhood. And you will be building your own skills - to find work or to just be happy.
Food Services
The Food Services team supports our Emergency Relief program by sourcing, packing and sharing food with our community.
A day at DIVRS looks like this:
Sorting fresh food from food rescue organisations, community donations and our growing sites
Packing pantry and fresh food parcels
Restocking our pantry and fresh food spaces
Helping share food at our Preston site and other community centres. You will meet some of the community members we share food with
Helping with daily set-up and pack down
We work as a team each day to make sure we get these tasks completed, usually with enough time to sit back and have a cuppa together mid-morning
SPECIAL SKILLS VALUED
If you have an interest in nutrition, health and wellbeing, then ask about our nutrition team. We know you can help us and the people we serve to focus on eating well with good, healthy food.
If you can drive a van, you may be interested in volunteering as a Food Relief driver. You get to drive our DIVRS van around Darebin picking up supplies and delivering parcels to the community.
Volunteer position descriptions
Please take a look at the details around what the Food Services volunteers do.
Community Support Team
The Community Support team members are the first point of contact for Darebin residents with personal or financial matters.
You may spend the day:
Welcoming community members who are picking up food parcels or booking appointments.
Providing practical support such as filling out forms, applying for specific services and help paying bills.
Working with people to build capability and financial resilience.
Advocating with a community member.
Connecting people with other supports such as health and housing, legal help, navigating Centrelink, finding a local GP.
Providing information about events, training and opportunities throughout Darebin.
There are many, varied roles within this team including reception, Community Support Workers, NILS (No Interest Loan Scheme) officers and Tax Help officers.
special skills welcome
Several of our volunteers work in an area of professional expertise and volunteer a few hours of their time each month. If you are in business or work in a professional role, we would love to hear from you to see if we can find a specialist role in DIVRS.
We might not even know how much we need you, until we hear from you!
And DIVRS provides extra training so we can guide you to provide the services that are most useful to those we work with.
Volunteer position descriptions
You can download these detailed descriptions of what your responsibilities can include.
No matter what your area of interest, get in touch by phone or fill out the email inquiry form linked below. We’d love to speak with you to find out if you and DIVRS are a great match.