ABOUT ALBANY & REGIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE
HELPING COMMUNITY HELP ITSELFHOW WE CAN HELP
Our Services
About our services
- are free of charge
- provide information about volunteering opportunitites
- match volunteers’ skills and interests with community groups in need of committed helpers
- can help community organisations by subsidising training opportunities for both volunteers and managers
- can assist in matching businesses with organisations
- provide free training for volunteers, organisations and corporate/business
- help with the promotion of businesses, providing newsletters and invitations to event.
Who can use us?
Any not-for-profit community group with the appropriate volunteer insurance and volunteering principles can use the services.
OUR PURPOSE
ACTIVITIES
OUR VOLUNTEERS
2022
Our Board Members
Chairperson Sue Dawes
Vice Chairperson Carolyn Graeser
Secretary Di van Clarke
Treasurer Stan Goodman
Board Member Kim Buttfield
Board Member Nicky Byrne
Board Member Stewart Bogle
Staff Members & Volunteers
Manager
Volunteer Newsletter Guru Helen Parry
Volunteer Website Guru Kathy Suggate
If you wish to apply for a vacancy please contact volstaff@arvs.org.au.

Sue Dawes
Chairperson
Sue has extensive experience in submission writing and project management. Sue’s skills also include budgets, client service, marketing and report writing. Sue is client focused and team orientated with outstanding financial management skills and experience to compliment these tasks.
Sue’s most enjoyable talent is the ability to help people (in any way I can)…it saves her from all the madness!

Carolyn Graeser
Vice Chairperson
Carolyn is a registered nurse currently working as a project officer in palliative care. She has many years experience working with the aged, managing people and understand the complexities of ensuring supports are available to enable people in the community. Carolyn enjoys riding her e-bike, swimming and walking her dog. “Volunteering is critical to this and I believe I can provide oversight as a board member.”

Stan Goodman
Treasurer
Stan has had extensive experience in financial analysis and management having worked in mining,
local government, and a not for profit organization.
Back in 2011, ARVS put him in contact with the Albany Community Hospice to assist with a funding
application for the new building. He subsequently became Hospice Treasurer and board member
for 5 years.
He tends to make himself useful crunching numbers, creating financial models/forecasts, and trying
to present the information in an understandable format.

Di van Clarke
Secretary
Di has been living in Albany for the past 21 years where she brought up her now two teen boys. Her background in nursing led her to work in Aged Care with a specialty in dementia. Di set up the Albany Health Campus Dementia Care Volunteers program. Volunteering has always been important throughout her life, always being on a committee or providing a helping hand when she can. Currently Di volunteers at Juniper with her therapy dog Monty, supporting residents with dementia.

Kim Buttfield
Board Member

Manager
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