Volunteering on the Gold Coast: where to get involved

The Gold Coast's volunteer sector reflects the city's rapid growth, its significant retiree population providing skilled volunteer capacity, and the tourism and hospitality economy that creates demand for the community welfare infrastructure supporting the service industry workforce living alongside the tourist economy.

Surf Life Saving Queensland — Gold Coast branches — the Gold Coast surf lifesaving clubs provide the largest volunteer lifesaving force in Australia, with the Kurrawa, Surfers Paradise, Coolangatta, and 20-plus other clubs patrolling the beaches through the volunteer system that has made Queensland's patrolled beaches among the safest in the world.

Gold Coast Hospital Foundation — the foundation volunteer programme places visitor support, patient transport, and patient companion volunteers throughout the Gold Coast University Hospital complex that serves the 700,000 population of the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales region.

Foodbank Queensland Gold Coast — the warehouse and distribution volunteer programme sorts, packs, and distributes the food relief that Foodbank delivers to the 200-plus frontline charities serving the Gold Coast's food-insecure population in the working poor and hospitality casual employment communities that the tourist economy generates.

Gold Coast Environment volunteers — the City of Gold Coast environment volunteer programme provides beach and dune restoration, koala corridor planting, and waterway clean-up volunteering in the natural environment management that the rapid urban expansion of the past 30 years has made essential for protecting the Gold Coast's ecological values alongside its tourism assets.

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