The following is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.
Volunteer North Shore Salvation Army seeks volunteer dishwasher to help support food services.
Food Bank Volunteer
Food bank runs on Wednesday mornings at North Shore Neighbourhood House. A volunteer is needed for room set up, lifting and moving boxes from the truck to the gym and organizing them.
Festival Assistant Deep Cove Daze is a one-day summer festival that takes place Sunday Aug. 24 at Panorama Park in Deep Cove. This is a community event dedicated to breathing life into the community and getting everybody out and supporting the bands and artists in the area. Musart Cultural Society is looking for volunteers for set up and take down; handling musical and technical equipment; collecting donations; selling raffle tickets, T-shirts and more.
L.I.N.K.S. Volunteers
Volunteers assist and encourage seniors with participation in social and recreational activities by supporting them with program registration, organizing transportation and initial participation in the new activities.
Secretary If you love books and enjoy writing, the Friends of the North Vancouver City Library would love to have you join their board. A volunteer secretary who has basic computer skills and knowledge of secretarial duties is needed. The volunteer needs to be available to attend the Friends' regularly scheduled board meetings on the second Tuesday of every other month at the North Vancouver City Library.
Literacy Volunteer
The North Shore ConneXions Literacy committee is looking for community volunteers to join the committee. Responsibilities would include attending committee meetings; providing guidance and suggestions on how to continue to promote literacy initiatives throughout the society; and assisting the literacy co-ordinator with participant assessments in September and June.
If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities, call 604-985-7138. The society is a partner agency of the United Way.
