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Get Involved, Stay Informed

Age-friendly Peterborough is a connector to information and ways you can be involved in your community.

  • Our Get Involved section highlights the benefits of volunteering and provides available opportunities.
  • Our Stay Informed section lists different tools to access local information and resources.

Get Involved

Volunteering is a great way to get involved in your community. Learn about the benefits of volunteering and the different resources available to help you find your perfect volunteer role.

Benefits of Volunteering

Volunteering is a rewarding way to share your skills and to enrich your life. Volunteers perform at their best when they feel valued, connected, and needed. Magic occurs when people discover:

  • A cause that matches their values and feels meaningful,
  • A role that engages their skills, yet allows them to learn more, and
  • A schedule that offers the number of hours they wish to contribute.

Volunteering increases life satisfaction, happiness, and connection to the community. Watch a video to learn more about the benefits of volunteering.

Volunteer Peterborough

Volunteer Peterborough is a network of volunteers and nonprofit organizations working together to solve urgent problems through promoting volunteerism. The website is a matching portal where the community can find volunteer opportunities that meet their skills, interests and time commitment, and where agencies can recruit volunteers. Search by current opportunities or organization or create a volunteer profile.

Join the movement and make an impact in the community!

Volunteer with Age-friendly Peterborough

Age-friendly Peterborough (AFP) is working to ensure that older adults’ basic needs are met; that they can get around the community; are supported to build and maintain relationships; and have the opportunity, to learn, grow, and contribute.

Watch a video to learn about the volunteer opportunities with Age-friendly Peterborough. 

Below are some current volunteer opportunities with Age-friendly Peterborough. If you are interested in volunteering with AFP, please fill out the online form below.

Volunteer form

Current Volunteer Opportunities with Age-friendly Peterborough

Project

Volunteer for a single day event that supports AFP projects, for example the Seniors Showcase or the Summit on Aging.

Role

  • Volunteer responsibilities will vary by event and may include registration, refreshments, and interacting with the participants.
  • The role assigned will be based on the event need, and the individual’s availability, skills and interest.
  • Be an ambassador for AFP while at the event.
  • The volunteer will work with members of the Event Planning team and will report to the designated lead.

Time Commitment

  • Attend on the day of the event.
  • Shifts are less than 4 hours.

Responsibilities

  • Task will vary depending on the role assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Excellent people skills.
  • Available to attend the event.

Committee

Reporting to the Learning and Contributing Working Group, the Volunteer Task Force has an objective to:

  • Promote volunteering for older adults as a way to stay connected and engaged in the community and support overall well-being; and
  • Support volunteer engagement with AFP.

Role

  • Work with the Task Force to achieve the established goals, strategies and actions as outlined in the AFP Community Action Plan.

Benefits

  • Be an active member of a committee that is working together to promote the benefits of volunteerism in the community.
  • To ensure there are adequate human resources to carry out the mandate of Age-friendly Peterborough.

Time Commitment

  • Attend daytime meetings once a month for 1 hour.
  • Independent work throughout the month.
  • Flexible time commitment of 2 hours per month.

Responsibilities

  • Attend and participate at monthly meetings.
  • Work on action items throughout the month as discussed during meetings.
  • Promote volunteerism.
  • Create tools and resources to recruit, and onboard of new AFP volunteers.
  • Interview, match, and onboard new AFP volunteers. 

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Access to computer to attend virtual meetings.
  • Familiar with volunteer programs and volunteer processes.

For more information about a volunteer position, please contact afpadmin@peterborough.ca. Subscribe to this page for updates about new opportunities.

Virtual volunteer fair

Volunteering is a great way to stay involved in your community. The Age-friendly Peterborough Volunteer Hub led by Community Care is excited to announce the launch of the Virtual Volunteer Fair. Learn more about local organizations throughout the greater Peterborough Area and how you can get involved.

If you are an organization who would like to participate in the virtual volunteer fair, contact afpadmin@peterborough.ca.

Watch videos by clicking on the organizations you want to learn more about:

Stay informed

There is information out there that may be hard to find. Age-friendly Peterborough has tools to help you find local resources and services that support healthy aging.

Friends of Age-friendly Peterborough newsletter

Stay up-to-date on information about programs, resources, and services available to older adults and their caregivers in the greater Peterborough area.

Information is just a click or call away

The Peterborough Senior's Services Directory is a centralized directory of healthy aging services that can support seniors to live at home in the City and County of Peterborough and Curve Lake and Hiawatha First Nations. The directory is intended to be a tool used by older adults, their families, care givers, and care providers.

2-1-1 is a free, confidential, multilingual, information and referral helpline. 211 Community Navigators help people find basic needs such as food, housing, and emergency financial assistance, and other support and community services. 

8-1-1 is the number to call for non-urgent health services, also known as Health Connect Ontario. It is available 24/7, is free, secure, and confidential. You can access symptom-based health information, navigation to programs and services, where doctors are accepting new patients, and referrals to clinical services including dietitian services or smoking cessation.

Contact Us

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500 George St. N.
Peterborough, ON
K9H 3R9

Phone: 705-742-7777
Toll Free: 1-855-738-3755
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