Whatever your age, skill level, interest and availability, it’s easy to make volunteering work for you. Find out about environmental volunteering opportunities around metropolitan SA.
Why volunteer for the environment?
There are many ways to connect, conserve and protect the environment.
One way is by volunteering your time to deliver on-ground action with a local volunteer group.
Adelaide’s volunteer groups deliver weeding, seed collection, monitoring and surveys, plantings, event management, customer service and much more to help look after the environment.
- Learn new skills and get to know the plants and animals in your local area.
- Meet like-minded people from diverse backgrounds.
- Share your passion and knowledge about the environment.
- Spend time in some of the most beautiful and special places in metropolitan Adelaide.
- Improve your health and wellbeing through connecting with nature.
5 ways to find volunteering opportunities in Adelaide
- Use the Green Adelaide interactive map, located toward the bottom of this page, and keep your eye out for our next “Meet your local group” session and “Come n try” campaign, promoted via our social media channels.
- Get in touch with one of Adelaide’s environment centres for advice https://www.greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/get-involved/visit-an-environment-centre
- Use the Adelaide Sustainability Centre “Get involved” resource https://www.adelaidesustainabilitycentre.org.au/projects/gi/
- Explore the websites of local groups that do environmental work. You could start with Friends of Parks SA, National Landcare Directory, Trees for Life, Conservation Australia, Volunteering SA, and Volunteering.gov.au
- Join a citizen science group to help collect and analyse data for local environmental projects. Visit the Inspiring SA website to find out more.
See why you should get involved
Environmental volunteering is for everyone
Corporate Volunteering
Is your business looking to make a difference? Why not consider environmental volunteering which helps create a cooler, greener Adelaide? It’s also a great way to connect with your teammates, give back to the community and enjoy the outdoors.
Green Adelaide supports more than 100 groups comprising of over 3500 volunteers to care for our environment. Every year these dedicated people donate around 70,000 hours of work. Many of these volunteers are associated with a park, reserve or community garden that holds some personal significance to them or to their community; and/or are actively contributing to sustainability initiatives such as repair cafes.
The Green Adelaide ‘Find Your Local Group’ Interactive Map – I want to volunteer | Green Adelaide is a great way to locate a volunteer group in your local area to see what environmental volunteering opportunities may be on offer.
In addition, check out our upcoming Courses and events | Green Adelaide for our ‘Come and Try Enviro Volunteering’ activities.
If you have any further questions or need assistance connecting with a volunteer group, please contact our team – dew.greenadelaidevolunteering@sa.gov.au.