{"id":12932,"date":"2025-05-19T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vennu.com.au\/blog\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:59:21","slug":"volunteering-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/volunteering-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row header_feature=&#8221;yes&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;90&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83e\udd1d<\/span> <b>National Volunteer Week (19\u201325 May)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a powerful reminder of how volunteering connects communities. With nearly 6 million Australians giving their time every year, their impact is felt in every corner\u2014from surf lifesaving to scouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, volunteering is shifting. Time pressures and changing lifestyles have driven a 20% drop in volunteer hours since 2014. So, how do we <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reimagine volunteering<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make it more sustainable\u2014and more accessible?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83e\udded<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Volunteers are driven by purpose: to give back, grow, and connect. But they need tools that reduce admin and maximise impact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><b>Vennu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we\u2019re proud to support their work by making it simple to book and manage community spaces. We take the hassle out of venue hire, so volunteers can focus on what matters most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This National Volunteer Week, let\u2019s celebrate the connection, care, and commitment that volunteers bring\u2014and find smarter ways to support them. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udc99<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row header_feature=&#8221;yes&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;90&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\ud83e\udd1d National Volunteer Week (19\u201325 May) is a powerful reminder of how volunteering connects communities. With nearly 6 million Australians giving their time every year, their impact is felt in every corner\u2014from surf lifesaving to scouts. Yet, volunteering is shifting. Time pressures and changing lifestyles have driven a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":122350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vennu.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}