The National Volunteer Skills Centre project

The National Volunteer Skills Centre (NVSC) is a project funded by the Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and managed by Volunteering Australia.

There are three key goals of the NVSC project:

• to support volunteers and organisations to build their skills and knowledge;
• to strengthen networks and encourage collaboration and the sharing of information;
• to reduce the duplication of resources and the costs associated with skills development and training.

To achieve these goals, Volunteering Australia has developed a number of resources and provides a range of services, including:

• Nationally recognised qualifications for volunteers;
• Dozens of free training resources and materials for volunteers, trainers and managers of volunteers;
• Best practice tips and advice for not for profit organisations and volunteers;
• A free "Find a Trainer" database, to help managers and not for profit organisations quickly and easily find a trainer in the local area;
• Access to AVALON, the Australian Volunteering Library Network, with over 6000 resources in the on-line catalogue;
• Three types of E-forums:  open discussion forums; focused discussion topics centred around contemporary volunteering issues; and scheduled opportunities to talk to experts on aspects of volunteering;
• A training calendar to find workshops, seminars and conferences.

All these resources and services can be found under the Skills and Training section of our website:

Skills & training resources

for volunteers        for managers of volunteers       for trainers

Skills & training databases

Find a trainer

Training calendar

As part of the NVSC project we are continually developing new resources and initiatives to build the skills and knowledge of the volunteering sector.  To keep up to date on new products and services please register.