Helping hands at our Pet Food Bank
The support of your company and your willingness to roll up your sleeves will have a powerful impact on the lives of people and pets who are marginalised, disadvantaged or experiencing a crisis.
Whether you are looking to increase employee engagement and staff morale, boost your company’s image or enhance your team’s spirit, workplace volunteering is a great way to give your time to help those in need.
Volunteering with Pets Of The Homeless can help you enhance your corporate responsibility and provide your staff with fulfilling opportunities to make a difference.
What You Need to Know
Please read before filling in the booking form
Where and what you'll do (Location, time and activities)
We welcome groups of workplace volunteers on Wednesdays to Fridays (session runs from 10am-3pm) at our Pet Food Bank/warehouse which is located at 84A Keys Rd, Cheltenham VIC 3192.
Some of the activities you may be involved in include:
- packing pet food
- sorting and cleaning pet items
- preparing special orders for social workers to pick up
A day volunteering at our Pet Food Bank typically looks like this:
10:00am – Volunteers arrive at the warehouse for a quick tour and safety briefing (it is important that everyone arrives on time).
10:30am – Volunteering begins!
12:00pm – 1.00pm – Take a break, sit down and enjoy lunch with your team. Please bring a packed lunch or organise delivery from Uber Eats. There are also a few cafes within walking distance.
3:00pm – Finish for the day.
Group size
Minimum: 5 volunteers
Maximum: 15 volunteers
Cost/financial contribution
Like similar organisations, we ask for a contribution to complement your volunteers’ efforts. Your donation helps us to offset the costs of running the day including providing support and refreshments for your group, and everything that goes into making sure your day with us runs smoothly! This contribution also enables us to provide support to thousands of people and pets each year.
For all corporate volunteers, we ask for a contribution of
- $800 (plus GST) for groups of up to 10 people
- $1000 (plus GST) for groups of 11-15 people
An invoice will be sent upon booking with 30 day payment terms. Payment can be made via direct deposit or credit card and payment is needed to secure the booking.
Cancellation policy
Volunteers are crucial to the operations of our organisation. If you are unable to meet your commitments please let us know as early as possible and we will endeavour to find an alternative date.
Late cancellations or failure to attend impacts our operations as we must utilise our staff or find volunteers to ensure we continue to provide our vital service to the people and pets in need. Therefore, we appreciate as much notice as possible if you need to cancel your booking.
- A 50% fee is applied to cancellations within 14 days of your booked volunteer session.
- A 100% fee is applied to cancellations within 7 days of your booked volunteer session.
OHS and manual handling requirements
Volunteering in our warehouse involves significant amounts of lifting and bending, twisting and turning, repetitive movements and standing and walking for long periods of time.
Due to the physical nature of the work, warehouse volunteering is not suitable for anyone with muscular, skeletal or back injuries or concerns. All volunteers must be aged over 18.
What to bring and wear
Wear comfortable clothing
Wear clothing that is suitable for bending, lifting and repetitive movements. Wear clothes you don’t mind if they get a little dirty.
Shorts/pants/leggings/jeans with a comfortable t-shirt and jumper is recommended.
The temperature inside the warehouse is generally the same as outside.
We have fans and space heating in the warehouse.
It is compulsory to wear hi-vis vests (will be provided) and closed toe shoes.
Bring your lunch
We have a fridge, microwave, tea/coffee facilities as well as a wide variety of drinks and snacks available. There are also a few cafes within walking distance.
Location, parking and public transport
Our warehouse is located at 84A Keys Road, Cheltenham VIC.
Car parking is very LIMITED so please do not park in front of our building. The best option is to park in the surrounding streets but please make sure to check signs for any parking restrictions.
There is a public bus stop just near the entrance to the warehouse with buses 811, 812, 821 servicing the area. Cheltenham Station is the closest train station to the warehouse. (2.9km from station to warehouse). Please refer to the PTV website - https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au - for timetable and route information.
How to make a booking
Please scroll further down the page for our booking form.
A chance to make a real, practical difference in the lives of those who may be struggling, (and of course their pets!). Also felt the day was very well organised, with real purpose, and gave the team the opportunity to interact in a completely different environment from our usual working day.
Great layout of the activities so that you could work but also talk to each other while you did so. Organised and well instructed tasks so we were productive with very little wasted time. Time flew and the day was over before I knew it.
It's for such an amazing cause and Tara (POTH team member) was incredible! I'm a huge animal person and think POTH is such a great charity. I would definitely be volunteering on a regular basis if I lived closer! I really hope we go back next year! I felt very inspired being there.
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