Yalari
Volunteer with us
Support us to make change
Are you passionate about creating opportunities for young Indigenous Australians?
Join us at Yalari as a volunteer, where your commitment to education and empowerment can make a profound difference. As a Yalari volunteer, you’ll be part of a dedicated team working to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Volunteering with Yalari can take many forms. You can contribute your time to governance activities, event support, business projects or through tutoring and mentoring our Scholars and Alumni.
Together, we can help shape brighter futures for Indigenous Australians.
Volunteer FAQs
Every year Yalari is honoured to have so many volunteers help us in many different ways.
Yalari’s volunteers offer their skills and expertise to work tirelessly to support us. Below are just some of the ways volunteers have supported us over the last 12 months:
- As a volunteer tutor providing academic assistance to our students undertaking their high school studies.
- Our Gala Dinners in Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane – either on the dinner committees or as event support selling raffle tickets, helping with auctions and set-up/pack down.
- As a member of our Regional Council where you can play a vital role in connecting new supporters and sponsors with Yalari.
- As a mentor for our aspiring and ambitious Alumni who benefit from the trusted advisor relationship they develop with you as they navigate making a difference for their communities.
It takes a community to raise a child – join us on the journey to empower Indigenous children to make generational change.
Anyone over the age of 14 can volunteer for Yalari.
We’re particularly keen to hear from anyone who would like to tutor a young Indigenous Australian through Maths, English or Science subjects for high school grades 7 through 12.
Complete the Volunteering form above and start your journey to support our vision for generational change
Yalari accepts requests to volunteer on a year-round basis.
If you’d like to ask some specific questions about volunteering, you can contact the Volunteer Manager on 07 5665 8688 or at [email protected] for more information.
What we’ll ask for to enable us to sign you up as a volunteer:
- Hold or be willing to undergo a process to hold a Working with Children Check in your home state.
- Provide us with your date of birth (to support the working with children check).
- A recent heads and shoulders photo of yourself
- A copy of any qualifications the volunteering opportunity might require.
- A copy of your open drivers licence and car registration (only for certain volunteering opportunities).
Interested in learning more?
If you wish to find out more or have any questions, please call our student support team on (07) 5665 8688 or email below.
