Become a Volunteer

Daystar Foundation is always looking for volunteers to help with any of our BLAST Programs. We have around 450 volunteers who share our vision and are committed to helping us deliver our goals. Daystar’s volunteers are a huge asset and hence, our top priority is ensuring that each volunteer receives high quality training to ensure they each provide appropriate mentoring and advice to students.

Most of our volunteers are from the corporate sector participating through our Literacy Buddies program. As a volunteer you write to a student 8 times a year encouraging your Little Buddy to read and write and providing him or her with a positive role model. We require a minimum of 30 corporate volunteers to team them up with one class of students. Feedback from our corporate volunteers is they love the program as they have the opportunity to form a relationship with a student over a 1 to 2 year period; and that management loves Literacy Buddies as staff don’t have to leave their office and so productivity is not impacted!

We also have Breakfast Club volunteer opportunities available.

Daystar adheres to the Safeguarding Children policies as outlined by the Australian Council for Children and Youth Organisations (ACCYO). We are currently finalising our documentation to become accredited with ACCYO's Safeguarding Children Program.

Volunteers must attend Daystar’s training programs aimed at preparing volunteers for participation in our BLAST Programs.

If you would like to learn more about becoming a volunteer with Daystar Foundation, please contact us via email on info@daystar.org.au or phone us on 02 4626 6830.