National Volunteer Week

Today is the start of National Volunteer Week, a time to thank volunteers across the nation for their dedicated service.

Volunteering brings people together; it builds communities and creates a better society for everyone.

National Volunteer Week is a chance for all of us to celebrate and recognise the vital work of volunteers and to say thank you.

Together, through volunteering, we are changing communities for the better. We are, Better Together.

This year’s theme for National Volunteer Week is ‘Better Together’. 

Marine Rescue NSW has over 3,200 volunteers in 45 units across the state who last year undertook over 4,251 rescues – bringing 9,922 people safely to shore.

Our dedicated radio operators took an extraordinary 256,000 radio transmissions, using Australia’s most modern marine radio network.

Our volunteers are a diverse crew, aged from 16 to over 90 and from a wide range of ethnicities – with every single one committed to our mission of saving lives on the water and helping to build a better community.

If you know a Marine Rescue volunteer, make sure you take a moment or two this week to thank them for their service – and perhaps consider becoming a Marine Rescue volunteer yourself.

For more information on National Volunteer Week: https://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/get-involved/nvw/