We are ready to manage all volunteer offers of assistance to support communities affected by Cyclone Debbie.

It sounds like a simple question but it’s not an easy one to answer.

Queensland Mental Health Week, 9-15 October, is a good opportunity to think about the impact volunteering can have on your well-being.

Information for concerned members of the public wanting to help.

The latest edition of the Australian Journal of Emergency Management presents a case study on EV CREW.

Australian emergency and disaster volunteering is changing due to shifts in the nature of paid work, lifestyles, values, new technology and policy. 

This week marks the 5th anniversary of the devastating Queensland Floods of 2010-11. Thousands of volunteers helped with the massive clean-up effort.

On 12 October as part of Resilience Week 2015, we attended the Get Ready Queensland Pop-Up Town in Reddacliff Place, Brisbane to promote Emergency Volunteering.

To increase resilience at the grassroots level, we've been holding disaster preparedness awareness sessions with local community groups and networks.

There were two big days of learning at our Disaster Resilience Leadership Project in Grafton last weekend.

If you missed our live broadcast during National Volunteer Week, here's our Volunteering Trends - Webinar for Councils.

Police, Fire and Emergency Services Minister Jo-Ann Miller is encouraging Queenslanders to stop and say thanks to the thousands of hard-working volunteers that help keep us safe day in, day out.

In 2010-11, Queensland suffered a string of natural disasters, including floods and tropical cyclones. During this time, community groups and all levels of government relied heavily on Volunteering Queensland to coordinate volunteers' offers of help. Phones were ringing off the hook and email inboxes overflowing, with our Emergency Volunteering CREW service collecting approximately 120,000 offers of assistance. With all this information being received, we needed a system to quickly help the efforts on the ground.

When it’s safe to do so, we encourage potential volunteers to help their family, friends, neighbours and any groups or associations they’re already connected with locally for recovery efforts.

You can also register with us online.

Volunteering Queensland is currently involved with the Sustainable Volunteering national research project being undertaken by RMIT University's Disaster Research Network.

The research focuses on the current business model for emergency management volunteering in Australia and New Zealand.