Inclusive Volunteering Guide

This guide is a practical resource to help volunteer involved organisations make volunteering more inclusive. The resource covers background on barriers to participation with a focus on inclusion for First Nations peoples, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities, people with disabilities and people who are LGBTIQA+. It includes practical actions to improve inclusion and offers tools, links, templates and further reading.

Benefits for volunteer managers

• create safer, more welcoming and inclusive volunteering environments and culture
• learn practical actions you can apply to planning, advertising and facilitating volunteering.

How to apply this resource

• Use the background sections to understand common barriers.
• Apply the practical actions relevant to your organisation and community.
• Adopt or adapt suggested tools (e.g., codes of conduct, training and inclusion practices).