I volunteer for Tafel (meals on wheels). The former chairman of my wife’s band runs the logistics side and that’s how I got introduced.

I’m considering volunteering for the local shelter to pick up animals since I’m doing a lot of driving anyway.

Occasionally I join local groups to clean up litter and I count ballots for local elections.

I used to walk dogs from a local animal shelter. I also volunteered in refugee aid some years ago.

Usually I just help out locally when word gets around.

I used to volunteer at libraries to teach elderly people digital literacy, how to use phones and computers to complete tasks they need etc and grow comfortable with their devices.

Unfortunately I couldn’t continue due to instability taking over my life. I’d like to do it again someday but I’m currently in too much need.

I do. Counting ballets. They needed ppl so i signed up

Not unless unauthorized trail maintenance counts.

Yep, I’ve volunteered off and on since I was a kid. I’ve done everything from volunteering at a museum to search and rescue. Usually it starts through a friend who is already doing it or sometimes meetup.com.

Our town twinning comittee did a St. Nicolas trip to our twinned city in the UK. Some years ago, the old St. Nicolas retired, and the comittee leader (a friend of ours) was desperately looking for a new one. She even asked her husband if he would glue a beard to his face (an idea which he was absolutely not keen of!). Then, one day we met in the city, and suddenly while we were chatting, she exclaimed “You have a beard!”

Indeed, I have a beard, and i have it way longer than we know each other, but that was beside the point. It is broad, long, and white. And I speak English rather fluently (it is not my native tongue), putting me into a perfect spot for this job.

And so I was volunteered…

My anxiety and avoidant personality disorder keep me from having to urge to volunteer.

People make me tired.

Yep. I tend to do K-12 STEM outreach stuff. The local schools and scout troops know me and reach out for help occasionally.

I’ve been thinking about doing some reffing for a high school sports club. It’s a less-popular sport, there aren’t a ton of adults who’ve played enough to be decent refs and even fewer women. Just not sure I have the time this season to get match fit and my credentials updated.

yes, i have volunteered regularly my entire adult life.

frankly i cut way back the past couple of years because people are such miserable psychos to be around and it was making me miserable. I focus more now on doing volunteer work that doesn’t involve people. it is a lot better.

i notice years ago volunteering was more about volunteering… now a lot of people think they should be ‘rewarded’ for their volunteer efforts. like with money. it’s fucked up and why i cut way back. it’s fucking weird people around ‘volunteers’ who are whining they they should get paid to do this.

Not as much as I used to, sadly. I don’t remember what the first thing I volunteered for was but I suspect I started doing it because I was asked. I volunteered a lot more when I worked at a company that encouraged community service and would give their employees time to do volunteer work during business hours.

When school was out for COVID i volunteered at the food bank. Currently trying to get setup with group that provides therapy and mobility equipment to people who don’t have insurance/resources. Feeling guilty that i haven’t made time to really dive into this.

I wanted to get up close to wild animals, so now I volunteer at the wildlife rescue. Hard work sometimes, but overall very rewarding and a lot of fun.

Not really. I have always felt inches away from being a charity case and we have done a rediculous level of personal austerity. My father in law even said we were to cautious but our lives have proved again and again that is not so. I mean I have in the past but most of what I do is opportunity driven. I used to have a do I could walk off leash so I would carry a poop grabber and bucket and I would pick up other garbage along the way. My neighbors and I grab each others mail. Put carts away that are carelessly left in the grocery lot. It blows my mind sometimes now only the littel things people don’t do but the little bad things they do and both would not inconvenience them much at all. Someone who goes and serves food in a soup kitchen every week but won’t use their turn signal is like. what. I sorta get annoyed with charity. Like it should not be necessary. We should be collecting taxes and employing people and fixing most things on a societal level. So like I want to live in a progressive social democracy where the average person is low enough stress that they treat themselves and their fellow citizens and environment with respect and will take some marginal effort to fix things spur of the moment that crop up.

Yeah lots, with the local food bank or the universalist Unitarian church, I’m an atheist but UU churches are about service not dogma I’ve heard the word “god” maybe 3 times this year and I go every week and volunteer regularly, it’s been great to join an organization that’s already set up to help build community that doesn’t care what you believe in.