What we do
Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) is a not for profit organisation providing Indigenous Australians with new skills. Communities, organisations or individuals identify their skill needs then ICV matches the projects with volunteers to address those needs. Volunteering with ICV is about sharing skills and knowledge and learning together. Skills transfer projects can lead to employment, self employment and community development.
Volunteer…do something different!
Imagine:- sharing your business skills with an up and coming fashion designer, enabling her to grow her label and obtain funding to break into overseas markets
- teaching people how to establish a community garden in the beautiful Fitzroy Valley, so people no longer have to travel 140kms to the nearest town for fresh fruit and vegetables
- travelling to NT to train staff in the running of an aged care facility so that Aboriginal Elders do not have to leave their communities.
What ever your skills are you can make a difference.
“ My background is in advertising and research. When I applied to ICV I didn’t really think my skills would be applicable to many tasks and I didn’t expect to be contacted. Six projects later - I am very proud that the communities I have worked with on submission writing skills were successful in receiving over $1,000,000 in grants” Gaynor Nichols, Sydney
ICV makes volunteering easy. We take care of your:
- Travel
- Accommodation &
- Insurance
Hey you mob...Get skills - it's free!
Indigenous communities, businesses & individuals all round Australia are using ICV to gain new skills and improve their existing ones. You can too!
ICV volunteers can give you skills to:
- start or grow a business
- gain employment
- create positive change within your community and much more
Learn any skill you’d like including:
- accounting, MYOB, retail, marketing;
- business planning, governance, grant writing;
- education, community services, health;
- agriculture and horticulture,
- sewing, arts and craft, music;
- plus many other trade and professional areas
As an Indigenous community, business or individual you:
- decide what skills you’d like
- determine how long the project will go for &
- choose the volunteer
True Fellas - At Balginjirr Aboriginal community Station, about an hour south of Derby (of which half an hour is along the beautiful soft, red dirt road that is as fine as talcum powder), Hector Waddell was supervising the construction of the huge Majala Wilderness Centre...
Read more in the new ICV News
Amazing in Lajamanu - This wasn’t Mary Fogarty’s first time as an ICV Volunteer.
This time round her volunteering’s taken her to Warlpiri land 500 kms out of Katherine. At five weeks it’s been her longest yet. I suspect it won’t be her last...
Read more in the new ICV News