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Building Inclusive Volunteering Practice

FreddyMatch’s Building Inclusive Volunteering Practice project is helping make disability inclusion part of everyday volunteering. By giving organisations practical tools, training and support to improve how they design and manage volunteer roles, the project aims to make mainstream volunteering more accessible for people with disability.

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About the grant

FreddyMatch is a website that connects people with volunteering opportunities that match their interests, skills and availability, while supporting organisations to find and engage volunteers.

Building on FreddyMatch’s previous JFM Fund supported project, this next stage moves beyond improving accessibility on the platform. It will help volunteer involving organisations build inclusive practice into the way they recruit, onboard and support volunteers.

The project will connect organisations with disability inclusion training, develop tools to help them understand and improve their inclusive volunteering practices, and work with people with disability to develop and test new FreddyMatch features.

It will also share learnings and examples of inclusive volunteering to support change across the wider volunteering sector.

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Project goals

The key goals of this project are to:

  • Give people with disability better information and support to choose volunteering roles that reflect their interests, goals and access needs.
  • Help organisations confidently include and support volunteers with disability across their volunteer programs.
  • Increase the number and variety of mainstream volunteering opportunities that are accessible and inclusive.
  • Build greater awareness across the volunteering sector of what inclusive volunteering looks like in practice.

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“We want organisations to think about disability inclusion as part of everyday volunteering, not as a separate project. That means looking at all volunteering roles and asking how they can be made more inclusive and accessible. The goal is for people with disability to have the same choice of volunteering opportunities as everyone else.”

Roxane Foulser-Piggott, CEO, FreddyMatch

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Acknowledgement of Country

JFM Fund would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia. We work on many Aboriginal lands, including Kaurna land where our head office is located. We extend our respect to all Aboriginal peoples on other lands on which we work, live and play. We are committed to listening, recognising the past and walking alongside First Nations peoples, and building respectful relationships that support self-determination and a shared future.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website may contain images or names of people who have passed away.