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ACTCOSS publishes 2026 cost of living report: ‘Truly terrifying’

Rising prices are pushing more Canberrans into poverty and financial precarity, ACTCOSS’s cost-of-living report, published today, warns.

Your Year to Volunteer: Volunteering Week in the ACT

Make 2026 your year to volunteer. National Volunteer Week celebrates the locals who give up their time for the community.

Community sector calls for ACT Government to fund food relief

ACTCOSS and VolunteeringACT have called on the ACT Government to prioritise the food relief sector in this year’s budget deliberations.

VolunteeringACT: Food pantries struggle to meet demand

Nearly 100 Canberra families go without food every day, and demand for food relief services increased by a quarter between 2024 and 2025.

VolunteeringACT invites you to nominate outstanding volunteers and volunteer managers for awards!

Volunteers are the foundation of community wellbeing and contribute over $14 billion per annum in commercial, civic, and individual benefits to the Canberra Region.

Voices from the frontline: VolunteeringACT

Many Canberrans cannot access healthy food, and the community sector is in survival mode as it struggles to help them, CEO Jean Giese says.

No fee for Working with Vulnerable People registrations

To the relief of Canberra's volunteers, the ACT Government has scrapped its plans to impose an $11 fee for Working with Vulnerable People registrations. Human rights minister Tara Cheyne MLA said the fee,...

Opposition seeks to disallow Working with Vulnerable People fee

Come September, volunteers will have to pay $11 for a Working With Vulnerable People card, but could the cost deter volunteering?

National week shines bright light on volunteers

Volunteers help the world go round and it’s no different in the nation’s capital.

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