Volunteer with Lake Taupō Hospice

Volunteers are our backbone

Lake Taupō Hospice volunteers are an integral part of what we do supporting us to deliver our services in the Taupō and Tūrangi districts. Volunteering with us is your opportunity to truly make a difference in your community.

About Volunteering With Us

We offer a wide range of volunteering opportunities and provide training and support throughout. As a volunteer with Lake Taupō Hospice you are part of our team!

For more information contact our Volunteer Services Manager.

Phone: 07 377 4252
Email: volunteers@laketaupohospice.co.nz

How to register your volunteering interest:

  1. Complete the Volunteer Registration of Interest Form below.

  2. Our Volunteer Manager will phone or email you to make an appointment to catch up with you.

  3. We will get you to fill out a registration and health and safety form.

*All Lake Taupō Hospice volunteers are required to complete a New Zealand Police Check.

Volunteering Opportunities

All volunteer roles are open to new volunteers at any time.

  • Almost entirely staffed by volunteers our very popular Hospice Shops are a fun and rewarding place to volunteer either in the depot sorting and pricing donations or on the shop floor.

  • We run two patient programs each week. Find the details about them here.

  • Many of our patients are lonely or their main care giver needs respite. Our patients love volunteers to sit with them, make them a cup of tea, provide companionship for them or take them shopping. Community Visitor Volunteers do not undertake nursing care personal cares or housework. This role is an opportunity to put light into someone’s day.

  • There are many opportunities for Volunteers to cook delicious meals and food for our patients. Either hearty lunches for our patient programmes on Tuesdays and Fridays; meals to freeze and be given to patients at home; baking for our patients to have a delicious treat or baking for some of our fundraisers.

  • Our patients benefit hugely from telling their life story, having it written and bound into a book as a keepsake for their families. This is a hugely rewarding role for a volunteer who loves talking to patients, hearing their stories and writing them down.

  • To enable patients to be cared for at home as long as possible we loan out equipment, such as lazy-boy chairs, hospital beds and more. We have a pool of volunteers who we train to be able to deliver and collect equipment. This is not always an easy role but it is a very rewarding one.

  • We run a number of event and fundraising initiatives from shows to street appeals. A wonderful chance for volunteers to be part of some great events which always offer a range of roles at the event itself.

  • Our beautiful gardens at Izard Hospice House need love and tending. Green fingered volunteers meet on Wednesdays at Izard Hospice House to work their magic. This is a very satisfying role!

  • Our nurses and Hospice Support Workers do all their work in the community. We have opportunities for volunteers to check and clean Hospice owned vehicles for our clinical team’s safety and wellbeing.

  • We love having Volunteers around at Izard Hospice House. There are always jobs to do including cleaning pantry and kitchen drawers, ironing, cleaning fridges, stacking firewood and much much more.

  • We often need help around Izard Hospice House - almost anything and everything! Painting, water blasting, moving furniture to name just three!

  • From time to time we have an administration load which we need assistance with. There are many opportunities to suit skills and experience of any volunteer.

Have a question about volunteering? Please get in touch or apply using the button above.