Event Support

The Wanaka Trail Ride is back for 2021 on March 27th and seeking volunteers for a range of roles. A huge fundraiser for Wanaka Primary School and Montessori Children's House Wanaka - volunteers get the pleasure of putting on an epic event and raising $1000s for our local children. Check out roles at www.wanakatrailride.org or contact them below.

Beach Clean up Superstars

Help keep Queenstown clean. Every piece of plastic and rubbish you pick up, is one less piece that can end up wrapped around or ingested by wildlife. Take some time out of your morning on the last Sunday of every month and join us! And if you are as passionate as we are about our cause, and want to spread awareness or start volunteering, come along and have a chat to the Crew. Please bring reusable gloves. Bags provided. Dogs welcome. See you there!

Annual Appeal Collector.

Can you give an hour or two of your time to help vulnerable people in your community and overseas? New Zealand Red Cross are on the lookout for energetic and passionate people to join them in their humanitarian efforts and be part of their Annual Appeal (street collections) in Queenstown in March 2021.

Wheels at Wanaka is a "Vintage & Classic Car, Tractor, Truck, Machine, Motorbike and Earthmoving Extravaganza" to be held at Three Parks, Easter weekend 2021. With over 50 acres of entertainment Wheels at Wanaka, is fun for the whole family and they are seeking volunteers to help in a wide range of roles. Take part in this unique event and help make it fantastic!

Event Support.

Kia ora! Queenstown parkrun is a free, weekly, volunteer organised 5km walk/run that happens every Saturday in Queenstown Gardens at 8am in daylight savings and 9am in Winter time! We always need volunteers for approximately two hours to help us make the weekly event possible. These roles could be as simple as a being a course marshal to make sure participants stay on the right path, taking photos for our facebook page, or helping the with the timing and results. If you are working on your Duke of Edinburgh, we are happy to help you track and confirm your volunteer time as well. It's always a fun morning and you get the opportunity to meet locals and parkrunners from all over the country and world that are visiting Queenstown. After volunteering 25 times you are eligible for a free parkrun shirt to commemorate you contributions to our fave, free, weekly 5km!

Event Support.

We would love to hear from any Wakatipu High School students who may be interested in helping us with the events that we have planned for 2020 and 2021.

Get in touch if you would like to join our small events team and work with us on all the details that make for the delivery of a great event, or give time on the day of our event.

Various roles include:
- assisting with event planning & ideas
- assisting with sponsorship for prizes and raffle items
- giving time on the event day by helping with set up or serving food
- event photography
- design - post-event thank you cards for our sponsors

KAPOW (Keep Arthurs Point Original Wildlife) is a planting and trapping group in Arthurs Point. We would always welcome volunteers to help with hand weeding plants in Morningstar Reserve. It is an easy access and sunny site and students would only need a pair of gloves. :-)

Writer

We are interested in any students who would like to write for Crux - social issues, the challenges of school life, something local you would like to see changed - all ideas welcome!

Delivery Drivers

We are always looking for drivers to help us with deliveries arriving at approx noon on one or each of those days to pick up our food packages (this role is not likely to be a possibility for students on restricted licenses). Deliveries are broken into different suburbs and each driver typically takes between 2-6 deliveries. We text potential drivers every Sunday night and Wednesday night enquiring if each person is available or not, until we get enough confirmations. We are currently needing between 6-10 drivers each Monday and Thursday.

Cooks & Chefs

For those cooks and chefs who are good at cooking, we are always needing more soups, curries, pasta sauces, desserts and home-baking of muffins, cakes and slices for which we provide the ingredients, packaging and labels.

Preserves Maker

We love to get home-made and donated is jams/chutneys/relishes or sauces. We can provide clean jars, labels and ingredients if this is an option.

Community Cook Up Volunteers

We will be resuming our community gatherings for various tasks that help us prep for xmas baskets, and we will also be having chop 'n chat sessions for the prepping and vacuum sealing of fruit and vegetables. These often alternate between day time and evening sessions when held monthly.

Crafts Volunteers

Making up of distraction packs. These are small bags we donate to the hospital filled with little items to distract young children while nurses conduct various procedures.

Garden Planter

Planting a herb garden for basket of blessing in the spring.

Design and Social Media Reviewers

IT and design people to offer a review and feedback of our website and facebook page. People to offer some recommendations on how Baskets of Blessing can attract more younger volunteers - would instagram, snapchat etc be effective social media campaigns to attract the younger sector?

Gift Packagers

We need help with our packaging of gifts to give people in need. Tasks include putting strings through our little logo baggage tags, producing pretty labels ready to be used to go on home-made jars and preserves. Wrapping small gift items into organza bags. Collating small hotel donated toiletries into pairs and putting in cellophane bags with ribbons. Wrapping large supplies into a single bar of soap packaged nicely into a single folded face flannel and wrapping with an organza bow. Using florist paper ribbons in rolls and pre-making bows ready for our xmas baskets
(need approx 300).

Social Media Volunteer

Startup Queenstown Lakes is a charitable trust who are a catalyst and champion for the startup, innovation, and technology community. We know that knowledge and innovation sector startups are a critical element to this region to achieve economic diversity, enhance productivity and strengthen the resilience of our communities.

We would love some help with design/social media, so any students with those skills, please get in contact.

Planting & Maintainence Volunteers

The Wakatipu Reforestation Trust's mission is to grow native plants at its Jean Malpas Community Nursery and to use these plants to plant in public areas to enhance biodiversity in the Wakatipu Basin.

At the nursery - volunteers help to grow our native plants by potting up seedlings, weeding pots and maintaining a tidy nursery. The nursery is located at Jardine Park, Poplar Drive, Kelvin Heights. Don’t worry if you have never done anything like this before – we’ll show you how to do it and besides, there’ll be plenty of people on hand to help you if you have any questions.

On planting days - volunteers plant native plants at public places all around the Wakatipu/Queenstown basin. They arrange volunteer planting days and maintenance days. Volunteer planting days are usually held on weekend mornings during Autumn and Spring.

Youth Activities Assistant

We have a Year 7&8 Evening every Thursday 6-8pm – people can help us promote this, organise the activities for the children, with the view of them running an evening at the end of the 12 weeks.

Athletics Assistant

Volunteers are needed to help run the athletics sessions smoothly during term 4 in 2020 and term 1 in 2021. The role would be helping out at our sessions on Thursdays in Frankton (from 4.00/4.30pm until 7.00pm).