Why volunteer?
- Volunteering allows you to utilise your existing skills.
- Volunteering teaches you new skills.
- Volunteering makes you feel good.
- Volunteering increases your confidence.
- Volunteering creates connection with other bushwalkers.
- Volunteering allows you to make new friends.
- Without volunteers there will be no bushwalking clubs!
Check out our video on the rewards of volunteering.
Current Volunteering Opportunities
Bushwalking NSW needs volunteers to complete a broad range of projects requiring many different skill sets. Please contact us at admin@bushwalkingnsw.org.au to see how you can contribute.
Some of our current opportunities are:
- Events
- Annual Symposium and Regional Club Events: Love to make a big bang? Help us address issues and attract the public to clubs.
- Quarterly General Meetings: Continue to improve our General Meetings with an improved location, events plan, timely arrangements, coordination of volunteers, network, record speakers to save on our website, prepare minutes and other documents, clean up, etc. Show your breadth of skills.
- Information Stalls: Support clubs to run information stalls at major events, develop marketing material, and to represent Bushwalking NSW Inc.
- Photos: Share your best photos of nature.
We have many other projects, roles and activities which you can do to help your community so contact us at admin@bushwalkingnsw.org.au to see how you can contribute.
Contribute to the Bushwalking Community
Bushwalkers are encouraged to contribute to the broader bushwalking community on a local, state or national level.
- Join a bushwalking club and become an active member
- Volunteer to lead activities in your local bushwalking club
- Help to develop the Great South Coast Walk. The proposed route is from Bundeena in the Royal National Park south of Sydney to Mallacoota, just over the Victorian border
- Offer your administrative or IT skills to your local bushwalking club committee
- Encourage your club to join Bushwalking NSW
- Represent your local bushwalking club as their Bushwalking NSW Delegate
- Bushwalking NSW is involved in many areas from conservation to publishing to social media. Volunteers are always welcome to assist.
- Keep up to date on bushwalking issues by reading the monthly Bushwalking NSW e-newsletter.
- Write a story for the Bushwalking NSW e-newsletter about your favourite walk or a conservation issue that concerns you. admin@bushwalkingnsw.org.au.
- Photograph bushwalkers walkers enjoying the great outdoors, for the monthly Bushwalking NSW e- newsletter, and send it to admin@bushwalkingnsw.org.au
- Write a letter to your local MP on bushwalking and conservation issues.
Get involved in bush conservation
- Find your NSW MP or Federal MP
- Join a protest meeting on a conservation issue
- Sign a petition on a conservation or national park issue
- Become a national park volunteer
- Join a Landcare or Bushcare group. Contact your local council to find out about Bushcare groups in your area.
Thanks to our BNSW Volunteers
Alexandra Hipolito, Alex Allchin, Ashlee Ferret
Barbara Mitchell, Bill Boyd, Bruce Lyman
Caro Ryan, Cynthia Burton, David Bell, David Morrison, David Trinder, Denise Kruze, Dick Weston, Dodie Green
Ed Youds, Elicia O’Reilly, George Quinn, Glenis Carroll, Holly Wang, Isabel Yersin
Jeanette Learned, Jessie Burke, Jim Callaway, John Flint, Jon Gray, Justine Thomas
Keith Maxwell, Kim Long, Leonie Bell, Lisa Han, Les Higgins, Lionel Sonntag, Lynn Greenwood, Liz Youman
Margaret Covi, Michael Maack, Mitchell Isaacs
Paul McCann, Peter Bruce, Peter Hart, Peter Jack
Richard Bennett, Rob Simon, Robyn McPherson, Roger Caffin
Sierra Classen, Trevor Caldwell, Yvonne Everett, Wilf Hilder