Current group volunteering opportunities

This section includes group requests from many of the community organizations we work with. If you are interested in one of these requests, please communicate directly with the contact person indicated. 

Please choose from Volunteer Activities with:

fixed dates

OR

flexible dates

and then click on an organization name
for more information about an activity.

Volunteer activities with fixed dates

If you don't find any of those possibilities suitable, we are happy to try to find you more enticing or appropriate options. Just fill out the form dedicated for groups of volunteers.

Volunteer activities with flexible dates 

Volunteer activities with fixed dates

Volunteer activities with flexible dates

Quebec Breakfast Club - mornings

Every morning throughout Quebec, the Breakfast Club brings 15,000 children two essential elements to start their school day on the right foot: a nutritious breakfast and a nourishing environment.

The Club is currently seeking 4 volunteers per school, per morning, for various schools in the South-West district of Montreal.  Volunteers work from 6:45 to 8:45 a.m., before classes, helping prepare and serve breakfast to children. The Club's volunteers can't count the number of precious smiles they get every day from the kids, or how many great friendships they strike up with their colleagues.

Contact Connie Petosa at 514.338.9900.

Le Centre d’intégration à la vie active (CIVA) - Tuesdays evenings

CIVA’s mission is to sponsor, examine, promote and develop activity programs to help the physically disabled become full-fledged members and active participants in their community.

The centre is currently seeking groups of 3 to 5 volunteers to assist swimmers during the casual swim time, every Tuesday from 6pm to 9pm at Joseph-Charbonneau swimming pool (Jarry station).  Volunteers will be welcome to greet visitors, to help them in the changing room and in the swimming pool during the activity.

Women on the Rise - Mondays

Women on the Rise offers information and referral services, workshops on parenting skills and a variety of other services primarily for recent Caribbean immigrant mothers with children under six years old.

Contact Nora Jean-Baptiste at 514-485-7814.

Children's Care International - flexible

Children's Care International (CCI) has made it its mission to come to help children who are victims of exploitation by providing education, health and psychological care, career training, no matter the race, sex or religion of these children. In Canada, CCI is working in order to increase public awareness about problems in relation with child labour. We need volunteers to help us by providing a support in logistic organization of conferences as well as promotion and sale of tickets for these conferences. These conferences aim at triple objectives:

1- Sensitize people about the fight against child exploitation.
2- Give suggestions to the persons who want to get involved in this fight.
3- Participate in the financing of CCI so as to enable the pursuit of its mission.

The group of volunteers can hold a conference for their contacts, their personal and professional networks or a group (youth club, university, employees of a company etc), all these aspects should have been defined beforehand with the person in charge of the volunteers at CCI. It is important to note that the lecturer is a member of CCI.

For more information or to participate in this activity, please contact Roxana Robin at 514-871-8088.

Fondation SEMAFO - On Wednesdays

This organization assists the countries of West Africa and more specifically the Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger communities.
We are looking for six volunteers to assist in the sorting, inventory, and packaging of donations destined for the poor populations of Africa.

For further information and to participate in this volunteer work, please contact Fakorédé Morenikè at 514-744-4408, extension 3307.

Miriam Home and Services - Monday, Tuesday or Thursday evenings

A Montreal-based non-profit organization that fundraises on behalf of the Miriam Home, which provides services to people with intellectual disabilities.

Groups of 2 to 10 volunteers (minimum 16 years old) are welcome to join our evening "Supper Program" between 6:00 and 8:00pm. Come hang out, conduct an activity or bring a musician. These fun evening are held weeknights throughout the year for groups of about 25 adults with intellectual disabilities. Families are welcome. A group of more than 5 may want to plan an activity such as an art project or game (bingo is always a hit). Volunteers will be provided a parking space.

For more information and get involved, please contact Elspeth Sparling at 514 345-0210 ext.146.

For more information and get involved, please contact Tania Togias at 514-937-9317.

The Benedict Labre House - flexible

The Benedict Labre House is a home which nourishes the body, mind and soul of individuals in need. It is a volunteer-driven charity, deeply rooted in Montreal's community values and partnerships. The House offers an environment that encourages positive change through various individualized support programs.

We have many volunteer opportunities for groups and are happy to "custom design" activities depending on the size and interests of the group. For instance, a group could offer to prepare and serve a meal for 50 to 150 of our clients. 

For more information, please contact Katherine Gray at 514-937-5973.

Chinese Family Service of Greater Montreal - flexible

This organization's mission is to provide the means to help Montreal's Chinese community integrate and flourish in Quebec.

A group of 5 to 10 volunteers could take part in the language exchange program, help with fundraising and/or the organization of activities for children or the elderly.

Eva Huang, volunteer coordinator at 514-861-5244, ext.231

Accueil Bonneau - flexible

Would you like to help the homeless get control of their lives? The Accueil Bonneau would be a great place to get involved in a group volunteering activity.

Renaissance Montreal - flexible

Renaissance is a non-profit organization offering persons from 18 to 60 years of age, who are having difficulty gaining access to the labour market, a training program combined with paid work experience. For a period of 26 weeks, such persons can acquire professional experience in the Fripe-Prix network of stores, in sectors such as retail sales, maintenance, materials handling and bookkeeping.

• Are you a group of 6 to 10 volunteers?
• Do you want to volunteer on a regular basis?
• Are you available during the week?

Projets Autochtones du Québec - flexible

PAQ is a non-profit shelter in the Montreal area that caters to the urban Aboriginal community including Inuit, First Nations and Metis people. The shelter provides a bed, shower, laundry facilities as well as food when available to between 15 and 20 homeless and impoverished each night. PAQ also holds counselling and rehabilitation sessions for the community.

For more information and get involved, please contact Tania Togias at 514-937-9317.

Santropol Roulant - Monday to Saturday afternoons (except Thursday)

Santropol Roulant is an award-winning community organization founded and run by young people in Montreal. This organization offers an intergenerational Meals-on-Wheels service for seniors with reduced autonomy. Since 1995, with the energy of 1 800 volunteers, we have made over 380,000 meals and delivered them by bicycle, on foot and by car to seniors and people living with a loss of autonomy across Montreal.

Santropol Roulant always needs groups of 10 to 15 volunteers to deliver meals, Monday to Saturday afternoons (2:45pm to 6pm - except on Thursdays)

Contact: Patrick Revie at 514 284-9335

Pause Famille - flexible

Pause Famille supports young parents and their children under 6 years of age and is looking for help in carrying out some of their regular activities: a clothing bank for children and pregnant women and a toy library!

- Are you a group of 10 to 15 volunteers?

- Are you available half a day during the week?

Come give us a hand!

Contact Yvonne Zolezzi, Volunteer Coordinator at 514-382-3224

For more information and get involved, please contact Tania Togias at 514-937-9317.

Tyndale St-Georges Community Centre - flexible

Moisson Montreal - flexible

Moisson Montreal's mission is to ensure an optimal food supply to the community organizations that provide assistance to people in crisis on the island of Montréal and to foster the development of sustainable solutions to ensure food security.
Moisson Montréal is the largest food bank in Canada in terms of foodstuffs distributed:
• 7.7 million pounds of food and other essentials distributed free in 2009;
• $ 39.3 million, value of food distributed;
• More than 150 vendors providing the food supply;
• More than 3,000 volunteers annually both occasional and regular;
• A team of 40 employees

Volunteer hours:
Monday to Thursday between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am to 11:00 am

General conditions:
16 years old +
Group of 30 persons or less
Working mainly standing

Volunteer school or youth group:
Minimum age: 14 years
One adult supervisor for every 10 young

Possible tasks:
• Sorting of perishables and non-perishables
• Production of boxes of fruit and vegetables for the Good Food Box program (Tuesday morning)
• Administrative work
• Kitchen Assistant
• Housekeeping
• Internships

For more information or to participate in this activity, please contact Audrey Lauzon-Laroche, Volunteer Coordinator at (514) 344-4494, extension 235.

ProVert Sud Ouest - flexible

Created in 1996, Pro-Vert Sud-Ouest is a non-profit organization which promotes local environmental improvements and recycling, with an aim to improving the quality of life for residents in South-West Montreal.

We are looking for groups of from 10 to 50 volunteers to work in South-West Montreal. All the required material will be provided by ProVert Sud-Ouest.

For more information or to participate in this activity, please contact Andreanne Dionne-Boulard at 514-935-8120.