Volunteering
Volunteering
Volunteers are welcome at Beaconhills. Discover the many ways to volunteer your time, from helping in the classroom to joining a Parents and Friends group. Improve the lives of others and help enrich your own.
Ways to be involved
Volunteers help out with activities such as supporting our equestrian team, coaching sporting teams, working in classrooms or joining one of the Parents and Friends groups at each campus. Many of our alumni enjoy sharing their professional experiences with students or volunteering as mentors. Their valuable contributions build connections and help enhance our students’ learning.
College responsibilities
Beaconhills College is committed to providing a child safe and child friendly environment, where children and young people are safe, feel safe, and can actively participate in decisions that affect their lives.
Our policies and procedures ensure compliance with all relevant child protection laws and regulations, enabling us to maintain a child safe culture.
As part of our Child Protection Program, the College requires registration and Working with Children Check details for all people, including parents, who:
- wish to volunteer in College programs
- have been booked to provide incursion or excursion services for students
- have expressed an interest in becoming a homestay host family
- are works contractors carrying out maintenance, services or repairs to College buildings or equipment.*
*All employees of contracted organisations should be aware of the College child protection policies. If you are volunteering, participating or providing services to the College , you must complete child safe awareness and revalidation each year.
Please refer to our Child Safe policies and procedures here for more information.
Registration
All visitor and volunteer registration forms are available here
Have your Working With Children (WWC) Check card at hand (or VIT registration/Police ID).
These forms must be completed by homestay hosts, excursion and incursion education service providers, works contractors, parent and other volunteers, and sport coaches and team managers.
Parents and Friends information
To learn more about Parents and Friends (P&F), refer to the Parents and Friends Group Framework document.
To register your interest in joining a P&F group, please complete this Expression of Interest Form.
If you are a parent of the College, volunteering your time with the P&F has many benefits! Hours volunteered can be credited to your College fees through the Parental Assistance Program here.
