V4U Day 2023 Project List.xlsx

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2		V4U Day 2023 Project List			REGISTER HERE
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6	Project No.	Project name	Project type	Project partner	Project description	Project tasks	Project location	Requirements	Notes
7	1	Fence Removal and Painting	Organisational Help	The Pines Scout Camp	The Pines Scout Camp would like to open up a fenced off space for future projects, remove an old bin, clean up the front gate, and paint some plaques to make the text stand out.	Volunteers will remove an old metal fence by cutting the wire and digging up the posts, dig out and remove an old metal bin from in the ground, repaint some rusted spots on the front gate, and do some detail painting on metal plaques to make the text stand out.	The Pines Scout Camp, Altona Rd Altona	N/A	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
8	2	Mentor Recruitment Project	Organisational Help	Sparkways	Sparkways Mentoring Program is an organisation that supports children and young people through mentoring partnerships. Volunteers will help map out and contact organisations and networks in the West to recruit volunteer mentors for the mentoring program for vulnerable young people.	Volunteers will map community organisations and networks that mentors can be recruited from in the Western Region of Melbourne. Volunteers will then contact organisations, community groups and networks that the Sparkways Mentoring Program can partner with to recruit mentors to support vulnerable young people in the West.	Government Pavilion, Showgrounds Village – P2, 320-380 Epsom Rd, Flemington	Working With Children Check	Phones and PCs provided. You can BYO your laptops if you would like to.
9	3	Warehouse Declutter	Organisational Help	Uncle Bobs Club	Uncle Bobs Club needs to declutter/dispose of items in their warehouse to make room for new exciting projects.	Volunteers will pick up items from shelves and dispose them in a skip bin, and rearrange/organise a simple system of items that will not be disposed of. Clothes to be folded and neatly stacked in specific size bins. Historical paperwork and/or photos to be carefully handled and filed away. Decluttering bulk items (such as pens) to be tested and kept or thrown as necessary.	4/41-43 Allied Drive, Tullamarine	N/A	N/A
10	4	Clean Up and Spruce Up	Organisational Help	Women's Circus	The Women's Circus need help with few projects such as sorting and doing inventory of their costume room, clearing out of some shelving units into a skip, and any other sorting, cleaning and sprucing tasks they may have.	Volunteers will remove costume items from the costume room, photograph and create an inventory list, hang items neatly and put them back in the costume room with like items, label racks for easy identification of costume items, remove items from storage shelves, and sort rubbish into a skip.	395 Barkly Street Footscray	N/A	Women and gender diverse volunteers preferred.
11	5	Aged Care Community Walk	Organisational Help	Doutta Galla Aged Services Footscray	Doutta Galla Aged Services would like some volunteers to assist with some arts and crafts activities followed by a community walk around the area with the residents.	Volunteers will assist in arts and crafts/gift wrapping activities with the residents. After lunch volunteers will support residents with a community walk, including pushing wheelchairs, followed by afternoon tea.	2/48 Geelong Road, Footscray	Negative RAT (tests will be provided before departure from VU).	Masks required inside the aged care facility.
12	6	Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Melbourne's West	Organisational Help	West Welcome Wagon	West Welcome Wagon provides staple items to over 800 families in the western suburbs. Their work also involves providing essential food parcels and toiletries for refugees and asylum seekers.	Volunteers will assist in assembling boxes and packing boxes with small goods, non-perishable food, and toiletries.	Unit 6, 42-46 Vella Drive, Sunshine West	N/A	N/A
13	7	A Day of Fun in Childcare	Organisational Help	Jigsaw Childcare	Jigsaw Childcare would like some support for their educators by interacting with children ranging from 6 months to 5 years.	Volunteers will play with children in the indoor and outdoor environments. This could include: reading a book, art and craft activities, sand pit, ball games, puzzles, etc.	185 Phoenix Street, Sunshine North	Working With Children Check	N/A
14	8	Media Library Archive	Technology	Footscray Community Arts	Footscray Community Arts Centre are working on a content strategy and are looking to add metadata, archive and create a media library of all past images and videos.	Volunteers will download images and videos from a server, input metadata into the asset info, and upload to a cloud-based platform where all assets can live and are searchable by all staff.	45 Moreland St, Footscray	Working with Children Check	N/A
15	9	Digital Piazza	Technology	Australian Multicultural Community Services	Australian Multicultural Community Services' Digital Piazza aims to provide CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) seniors with technological skills and knowledge with the help of trained Digital Mentors to narrow the digital divide experienced by these seniors.	Volunteers will help provide CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) seniors assistance with basic technological issues and address questions/inquiries seniors may have on the day.	Suite 111, 44-56 Hampstead Road, Maidstone	Police Check preferred but not required	N/A
16	10	Bike Hub Scrap and Sort	Sustainability	Inner West Community Bike Hub	The Community bike hub is a not-for-profit which refurbishes second-hand bikes to keep them out of landfill, contribute to a circular economy and provide free access to refugees & Asylum seekers in need. All volunteers will be helping to contribute to this vision.	Volunteers will strip bikes for recycling and sort parts, stripping and recycling wheels, assisting in readying bikes for donation to refugees and asylum seekers, and additional maintenance as needed.	4 Mills Close (next to Victoria University Footscray Park Campus)	N/A	Please wear clothes you won't mind getting dirty.
17	11	Clean Up the Westbreen Creek	Sustainability	Clean Up Australia	Come and join Clean Up Australia and Chain of Ponds to support a healthy creek fighting against litter. Learn about plastic pollution, connect to your local environment and meet some of the local organisations supporting the creek.	Volunteers will partake in cleanup activities around the area and be delivered an environmental talk from a local group about the impacts of plastic pollution	KW Joyce Reserve, West end of Kent Rd, Pascoe Vale VIC 3044	N/A	Please wear warm clothes you won't mind getting dirty
18	12	Pulp 'n' Paper Project	Sustainability	Enactus VU	The Pulp 'n' Paper Project is a team under EnactusVU that recycles paper on campus and creates sheets of paper, flashcards, mini notebooks, envelopes, compostable pots, and paper bags.	Volunteers will mainly focus on making recycled paper, which includes the process of: - shredding paper and cardboard. - collecting flowers from the garden and dry pressing them - blending paper shreds into paper pulp - Making papers from paper pulp - binding paper into notebooks	Footscray Park Campus, Building D, DM02	N/A	N/A
19	13	Plastic Solution Project	Sustainability	Enactus VU	The Plastic Solution Project is a team under EnactusVU that focuses on recycling plastic bottle caps to recreate recycled plastic products.	Volunteers will assist in recycling plastic bottle caps and creating recycled plastic products within three working stages. The first stage would be to sort the type of plastic and clean the plastic caps. The second stage will be to use a shredder machine to grind the plastic bottle caps The final stage would be to put the shredded plastic into a heat extruder machine to melt the plastic and press it in shape to create products.	Footscray Park Campus, Building D, D314	N/A	N/A
20	14	Litter Blitz in Manor Lakes	Sustainability	Werribee River Association	The Werribee River Association has organised a clean-up of the open parklands, waterways and local streets in Manor Lakes.	Volunteers will use tongs and bags to collect litter, walking to different areas, then bringing the litter collected back to a central location for auditing and removal. Volunteers will also be provided information about the harms of litter to our environment, what they can do about it, how they can report in difficult to reach/move litter items and other associated work.	Armstrong Rd, in front of the Wyndham Vale Railway Station in Manor Lakes	N/A	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
21	15	Clean Up at Sunshine Mosque	Cleaning	Sunshine Mosque	The Sunshine Mosque would like some help maintaining the cleanliness and upkeep of their mosque.	Volunteers will clean up the internal and external areas of the building including doors, windows, and balustrades. There will also be some gardening maintenance involved.	618 Ballarat Road Ardeer	N/A	N/A
22	16	Creative Terracotta	Arts and Crafts	Mecwacare Gregory Lodge	Mecwacare Gregory Lodge has organised an arts and crafts activity to engage with the aged care residents.	Volunteers will pair up with residents and work together to create some decorative terracotta pots for planting seeds in.	2-58 Newmarket Street, Flemington	Negative RAT (tests will be provided before departure from VU).	N/A
23	17	Beautification Blitz	Working Bee	Sunshine Primary School	Sunshine Primary School has a few tasks around the school campus to revitalise some of the outdoor areas.	Volunteers will partake in several small outdoor projects such as painting, staining, trimming trees, mulching, and other general gardening tasks	Corner of Hampshire and Derby Roads, Sunshine	Working With Children Check	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
24	18	School Grounds Working Bee	Working Bee	Dinjerra Primary School	Dinjerra Primary School has a number of working bee activities for volunteers to complete to help out with maintaining their school grounds.	Volunteers will be helping out with a variety of tasks including some sanding, painting, and staining of timber, weeding, digging, mulching, and planting.	44 south road, Braybrook	Working With Children Check	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
25	19	Karaoke and Gardening with Aged Care Residents	Gardening	Woornack Doutta Galla Sunshine	Woornack Doutta Galla Sunshine's sensory garden program provides enrichment and relaxation for the aged care residents. After a bit of karaoke with the residents, there'll be some planting to improve the sensory garden.	Volunteers will partake in a karaoke activity with the Doutta Galla residents, followed by some gardening and planting to help improve the sensory garden.	6-8 Killara St. Sunshine	Negative RAT (tests will be provided before departure from VU).	N/A
26	20	Stony Creek Reserve Management	Gardening	Friends of Stony Creek	Friends of Stony Creek are looking to maintain a number of garden beds within the Stony Creek Reserve.	Volunteers will be checking and restaking plants, replacing covers, moving and spreading soil and mulch, and other general cleanup tasks.	Stony Creek reserve Hyde street	N/A	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
27	21	Primary School Tree Planting	Gardening	St John's Primary School Footscray	St John's Primary have purchased a number of native trees through a grant and would like some help planting these trees, as well as some other small working bee tasks in their horticulture garden.	Volunteers will dig holes and plant trees around the campus, as well as some maintenance in a horticulture garden including sealing timber fences, moving soil, and moving a metal garden bed to a sunnier spot.	34 Essex St. Footscray	Working With Children Check	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
28	22	Community Centre Native Garden	Gardening	Yarraville Community Centre	Yarraville Community Centre would like some help sprucing up their gardens	Volunteers will be partaking in some general gardening tasks to help set up a garden with native plants for a community hub.	59 Francis St. Yarraville	Working with Children Check preferred but not required	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
29	23	Therapy Garden Rejuvenation Project	Gardening	Western Health Sunshine	Western Health Sunshine would like to revitalise a therapy garden that has been unused for several years in order to enhance outlook and environment for patients and staff.	Volunteers will remove dead plants, dig garden beds, plant seedlings, water the garden, and some additional cleaning of the area.	Sunshine Hospital, Furlong Road St Albans VIC 3021	N/A	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
30	24	Gardening at the Footscray Park Bowling Club	Gardening	Footscray Bowling Club	The gardens at the Footscray Bowling Club have been a little negleted, and need some help to look nice again.	Volunteers will be weeding and providing some general garden cleanup to get the garden back to a presentable state.	1 Hoadley Court, Footscray	N/A	Please wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
31	25	Garden Reno @ The GREEN Lab	Gardening	The GREEN Lab @ Iramoo	The garden beds at the GREEN Lab will be turned into wildflower seed production areas. The gardens will provide a point of contact and engagement for people learning about our precious remnant native grasslands. Seeds collected from the gardens will be used for plant production in the nursery and grassland habitat restoration.	Volunteers will weed the garden beds, do some planting and watering, and other general tidy-up work.	Portable 1J, Victoria University, McKechnie St, St Albans	N/A	Work boots and clothes you don't mind getting dirty recommended.
32	26	Childcare Centre Working Bee	Working Bee	Acacia Children's Centre	Acacia Children's Centre need some help to fix up some areas around the centre for children to enjoy.	Volunteers will be filling in soft fall, mud pits, and sand pits, as well as some weeding and shrub trimming.	159 Taylors Rd, St Albans	Working With Children Check	Please wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty.
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