Volunteering

Volunteering is great for your community and makes the world a better place!

Some of the benefits of volunteering:

• Allows you to be actively involved in your community
• Helps you make new friends and contacts
• Increases your social and relationship skills
• Provides a sense of achievement and can be fun, relaxing, and energizing
• The energy can carry over to a work situation and sometimes helps foster new perspectives
• Can lead you to discover a hobby or interest you were unaware of
• Helps you get ’real-world’ experience through hands-on work
• You can make the corner of the world where you live just a little bit better!

Volunteer Yukon is offering a range of volunteer opportunities at the office, on the website, via emails and via different medias. You can also consult all these websites for other Volunteer Opportunities, especially for all the festivals or sport events which require a lot of volunteers every year.

Volunteer opportunities by specific event:

• City of Whitehorse : http://www.city.whitehorse.yk.ca/index.aspx?page=247
• Yukon Hospital Foundation : http://www.yhf.ca/
• Yukon Hospital Corporation : http://www.whitehorsehospital.ca/makeadifference/hospitalauxiliary/
• RCMP in Yukon : http://bc.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=899&languageId=1&contentId=26963
• The Association franco-yukonnaise : http://www.afy.yk.ca/secteurs/main/fr/index.php?location=m1013
• The Fire Department in Whitehorse : http://www.city.whitehorse.yk.ca/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=1643
• Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous (in February): http://www.yukonrendezvous.com/volunteer
• Frostbite Music Festival (in February) : http://www.frostbitefest.ca/S/getinvolved/volunteer.aspx
• The Yukon Quest (in February): http://www.yukonquest.com/site/for-volunteers/
• Burning Away The Winter Blues (in March) : http://www.burningawaythewinterblues.com/join.html
• The Annual Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay (in June) : http://www.kcibr.org/volunteer
• The 24 Hours of Light Mountain Bike Event (in June) : http://24hoursoflight.ca/
• The Yukon River Quest Canoe Race (in June) : http://www.yukonriverquest.com/volunteer/
• Adaka Cultural Festival (in June) : http://adakafestival.ca/
• The Atlin Arts & Music Festival (in July) : http://www.atlinfestival.ca/?page_id=34
• The Yukon River Trail Marathon (in August) : http://www.yukonmarathon.com/index.html
• The Klondike Trail of 98 International Road Relay (in September) : http://www.klondikeroadrelay.com/race2/index.php

Calendar of Festivals and Events in the Yukon:

• Yukon Festivals and Events: http://travelyukon.com/things-do/events-festivals
• Agenda Events in Yukon : http://www.yukoninfo.com/whitehorse...
• Calendar of Festivals and Events in Whitehorse : http://www.whitehorsefestivals.com/
• Calendar of Festivals and Events in Dawson City: http://www.yukoninfo.com/dawson/info/calendar.htm

Photo of volunteers in communities provided for the photo contest in 2010.

 Portraits of Seniors volunteering: Aging Well Expo Panel- 2010 (Podcast does not work with the browser Firefox)
Portraits of Seniors volunteering (Aging Well Expo Panel)