Volunteer

Every week a team of generous Sunshine Coasters team together to help  prepare, serve and deliver deliver delicious Chef cooked meals to people living in Coolum and its surrounds.

Working alongside the volunteers are two qualified chefs, an apprentice chef, two office staff and a Co-Ordinator managing the business.

There are a variety of positions available to suit your interests, skills and availability. You can volunteer once a week, once a fortnight or even once a month. Every little bit helps, how much you do is up to you.

The good news is you will have fun, be part of a team and get to meet a wide variety of people, while enjoying the satisfaction of contributing to the health and wellbeing of others.

Find out more about the roles available ….

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Enjoy Driving?

If you like driving, you could drive a delivery person to drop off a nutritious meal together to each home.

Coolum Meals On Wheels Cook

Enjoy Cooking?

Would you like to work with the supervision of the chef in the kitchen, preparing vegetables, cooking, packing meals, washing up and cleaning?
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Enjoy Meeting People?

Do you prefer delivering meals, enjoying the face to face contact with some delightful people who will appreciate your visit as much as the delicious food you deliver?

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Perhaps administration is your strength helping in the background ensuring the office procedures run smoothly.

Want to have the contact with clients but don’t want to drive?

Then perhaps you would like to team with a driver and deliver the meals to the client’s front door?

You will need to:

  • Enjoy meeting people

  • Have attention to detail to ensure the correct meal is delivered to each person (Clients are depending on you to get the right meal to them – and no one wants to miss out on their delivery)

  • Be able to get in and out of a car without too much difficulty.

  • Have a National police check. If you already have one that was conducted less than 2 years ago, we can accept a copy, if not, we can run a check for you free of charge.

Delivery Volunteers starting and finish times : 10:45am – 1:00pm

Enjoy Driving?

Every week a team of generous Sunshine Coast residents, who like to drive, deliver delicious meals to people in our catchment area.

If you like to drive, meet people and know you are making a real contribution to the quality of someone’s life, start your engine and do some driving for us. It only takes a few hours a week.

The good news is you will have fun and meet some interesting people who will appreciate your visit as much as the delicious food you deliver.

A contribution to running costs can be made by us.

Speak to our friendly staff who will explain this role in more detail.

For this role you will need:

  • Preferably have your own car. We do have a car but that is not always available.

  • A current valid driver’s license.

  • A National Police check. If you already have one that was conducted less than 2 years ago, we can accept a copy, if not, we can run a check for you free of charge.

Delivery Drivers starting and finish times : 10:45am – 1:00pm

Or maybe you want to help in the kitchen?

In the kitchen you will work with the chefs and a cheery volunteer team to help prepare, serve and package the meals.

Your contribution will be wide ranging and could include:

  • Cooking

  • Vegetable preparation

  • Packaging Meals

  • Washing Up

  • Cleaning

Your hours could be:

07:00am – 11:30am or

08:00am – 12:30 pm or

10:30am – 1:30pm

Is the office for you – Do you have skills to offer?

We welcome anyone with office and reception skills to assist in a variety of administrative roles such as:

  • Assisting with data entry into our main database

  • Preparation of client welcome packs

  • Helping the Management Committee with preparing documents in Word and Excel

  • Other office duties

The office hours are 8.00am to 2.00pm. You would work at the  direction of the Service Coordinator in a role that he believes best  suits your abilities