Check Out These Places to Start Your Volunteering Career:
BCSPCA: http://www.spca.bc.ca/about/volunteer/
Burns Bog Environmental Society (Located nearby on Scott Road): http://www.burnsbog.org/volunteer/
Canadian Blood Services: https://www.blood.ca/en/volunteers/volunteering-opportunities?OpenDocument&CloseMenu
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: https://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/a-future-without-breast-cancer/create-a-future-without-breast-cancer/
Canadian Diabetes Foundation: http://www.diabetes.ca/how-you-can-help/volunteer
Canuck Place: http://www.canuckplace.org/volunteers/
City of Surrey: https://www.surrey.ca/about-surrey/volunteering
City of Delta: http://www.delta.ca/your-government/volunteering
Fraser Health Authority (Includes Surrey Memorial Hospital): www.fraserhealth.ca/about-us/volunteer-opportunities#.X86kImiQEdU
Go Volunteer.ca: https://www.govolunteer.ca/volunteer-opportunities
Heart and Stroke Foundation: https://www.heartandstroke.ca/how-you-can-help/volunteer
Lower Mainland Down Syndrome Society: http://lmdss.com/contact-us/volunteer/
Options Community Services: http://www.options.bc.ca/volunteer-at-options
Science World: http://www.scienceworld.ca/volunteer
Surrey Crime Prevention Society: https://www.preventcrime.ca/become-a-volunteer
Surrey Food Bank: http://www.surreyfoodbank.org/volunteers
Surrey School District No. 36 - Community Schools Partnerships: https://www.surreyschools.ca/CommunityServices/CommunitySchools/Pages/default.aspx (Check with Career Centre for programs offered at LA Matheson)
Vancouver Aquarium: http://www.vanaqua.org/join/hands-on
YMCA: https://ymca.ca/Get-Involved/Volunteer
Remember– Collect Reference Letters and Contact Information. (See Below)
Add it to your Scholarship Binder
See below to open Volunteer Database
GoVolunteer is an extensive database of volunteering opportunities in BC and Alberta. This website allows you to search through its database in a number of ways, including category. This way you can identify an area that you are interested in (e.g. Animals), choose what city you live in and the website will list opportunities connected to that field of interest in that specific city. This is a quick and easy way to read through local volunteering positions.
BCSPCA: http://www.spca.bc.ca/about/volunteer/
Burns Bog Environmental Society (Located nearby on Scott Road): http://www.burnsbog.org/volunteer/
Canadian Blood Services: https://www.blood.ca/en/volunteers/volunteering-opportunities?OpenDocument&CloseMenu
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: https://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/a-future-without-breast-cancer/create-a-future-without-breast-cancer/
Canadian Diabetes Foundation: http://www.diabetes.ca/how-you-can-help/volunteer
Canuck Place: http://www.canuckplace.org/volunteers/
City of Surrey: https://www.surrey.ca/about-surrey/volunteering
City of Delta: http://www.delta.ca/your-government/volunteering
Fraser Health Authority (Includes Surrey Memorial Hospital): www.fraserhealth.ca/about-us/volunteer-opportunities#.X86kImiQEdU
Go Volunteer.ca: https://www.govolunteer.ca/volunteer-opportunities
Heart and Stroke Foundation: https://www.heartandstroke.ca/how-you-can-help/volunteer
Lower Mainland Down Syndrome Society: http://lmdss.com/contact-us/volunteer/
Options Community Services: http://www.options.bc.ca/volunteer-at-options
Science World: http://www.scienceworld.ca/volunteer
Surrey Crime Prevention Society: https://www.preventcrime.ca/become-a-volunteer
Surrey Food Bank: http://www.surreyfoodbank.org/volunteers
Surrey School District No. 36 - Community Schools Partnerships: https://www.surreyschools.ca/CommunityServices/CommunitySchools/Pages/default.aspx (Check with Career Centre for programs offered at LA Matheson)
Vancouver Aquarium: http://www.vanaqua.org/join/hands-on
YMCA: https://ymca.ca/Get-Involved/Volunteer
Remember– Collect Reference Letters and Contact Information. (See Below)
Add it to your Scholarship Binder
See below to open Volunteer Database
GoVolunteer is an extensive database of volunteering opportunities in BC and Alberta. This website allows you to search through its database in a number of ways, including category. This way you can identify an area that you are interested in (e.g. Animals), choose what city you live in and the website will list opportunities connected to that field of interest in that specific city. This is a quick and easy way to read through local volunteering positions.
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