About ICV

ICV is a non government organisation which partners with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to develop community and human capacity in order to improve the quality-of-life, health, social and economic wellbeing in the community. ICV develops strong relationships in the communities that we work with in order to identify the skills and assets within the community. Working with the community we also identify possible gaps that we can assist the community with by placing our skilled volunteers in the community to support them to realise their vision or development plan.

Communities control ICV projects. Communities nominate the volunteer skills they require and select the particular volunteers they need.

ICV hunts and gathers volunteers to work with communities on community-driven projects. We don’t hunt and gather projects for volunteers.

ICV transports volunteers from anywhere in the country to wherever the project is operating, from Mer to Margaret River; Halls Creek to Hobart; Melbourne to Melville Island. Volunteers are selected and invited by communities to participate in ICV’s community development projects.

Community development projects create a two-way exchange. The projects provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with community development opportunities and access to skilled people and high quality services. And they give volunteers the chance to live and work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and learn first-hand about their issues and culture. ICV provides opportunities for communities and volunteers to share knowledge, culture and understanding. We are reconciliation in action.

ICV Project Officers work closely with communities and volunteers throughout the project supporting, assisting and monitoring.

Vision and Purpose

Our Purpose
Indigenous Community Volunteers provides opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to develop community and human capacity to improve their quality-of-life, health, social and economic wellbeing and inclusion within Australian society.

Our Vision
An Australia where all Australians live in harmony and where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people share the same rights, respect and access to opportunities and rewards, and where their culture is valued and recognised as an asset to Australian society.

We achieve this by enabling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to work in partnership with the broader Australian community, governments and the private sector through volunteering.

Environmental responsibility

Caring for country is an integral part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. ICV can’t afford to help this generation at the expense of future generations. We are strongly committed to environmental responsibility. ICV has an ambitious 25 per cent energy reduction target. We offset all of the carbon emissions that we can reduce.