Volunteers
East Hants is committed to helping volunteer groups in East Hants grow to their fullest potential. We can help with finding volunteers, promoting volunteer opportunities and retaining volunteers.
Our local fire departments are always recruiting new members. We can help point you in the direction of becoming a member at your community department.
Volunteer Fair
We invite volunteer organizations from across East Hants to join us on Saturday, October 5, 2024, for an in-person Volunteer Fair. This event will take place in the Lloyd E. Matheson Centre from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Register for our Volunteer Fair
Volunteer Awards
Every year, East Hants recognizes outstanding volunteers in our communities through our Volunteer Awards.
The nomination period opens annually in January and closes in February. Nominations are evaluated and nominees selected by mid-March. Successful nominees are presented their awards at a ceremony in April.
Nominations must be submitted by a representative of a registered nonprofit organization. Nominees must be associated with a registered community group(s) within the municipality.
From the pool of general Volunteer Award nominees, judges will select one volunteer as the Model Volunteer of the Year. The Model Volunteer recipient receives an engraved award and becomes the representative for the Municipality of East Hants at the Provincial Awards Ceremony hosted by the province of Nova Scotia.
Nominate a Volunteer
The next round of nominations will take place in January 2025.
Volunteer Opportunities
Browse the listings below to learn more about volunteer organizations in East Hants and how you can help make a difference in your community.
BBBS enables life-changing mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential of young people.
Location/Community
East Hants and Colchester
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Community-based Mentors (Bigs or Big Couples for our Littles)
In School Mentors
Peer Mentors for Hants East Rural High
Contact Information
colchester.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca
Email
Facebook
Instagram
Our Northern Nova Scotia emergency management team is looking for volunteers to be a part of our mission. Because of our wide-reaching network of highly trained volunteers, Canadians who have found themselves impacted by disaster big and small, are able to turn to the Canadian Red Cross for relief and support.
As an emergency management volunteer, you will help your community to be better prepared for an emergency, and you will help to deliver essential relief services to those impacted by disaster, virtually or in-person. Be the saving grace to someone during the worst day of their life!
Location/Community
East Hants
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Emergency management responder
Contact Information
redcross.ca/volunteer
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Provides food to those in need on a monthly basis and act as an emergency source for food. They also assist with school supplies, winter jackets and operate a Christmas Adopt a Family/Person Program.
Location/Community
Enfield Legion, Lower Level
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Board members (including treasurer and president).
Contact Information
caringandsharingfoodbank.com
Facebook
caringandsharinghants@gmail.com
902-471-4733
The CHArt (Culture, Heritage & Art) Society was incorporated in 2010, initially to coordinate an annual Maitland Launch Festival. It has since expanded its role to include the production of plays and other events. In 2016, the Society acquired the former United Church and Hall in Maitland, which we now operate as the High Tides Arts & Community Centre. The Centre hosts the Society’s events but is also available for use by the community-at-large.
Location/Community
Maitland
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We are almost always in need of additional volunteers to assist with our activities, for fundraisers, plays and other performances, community dinners, and also to assist with the maintenance of the buildings and property.
Contact
chart@hightidescentre.ca
902-701-0273
hightidescentre.ca
CHArt Facebook
High Tides Arts & Community Centre Facebook
Maitland Launch Festival Facebook
Through the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP), community organizations host free tax clinics where volunteers file tax returns for people with a modest income and a simple tax situation.
Location/Community
Across all of Nova Scotia. The East Hants clinic is usually hosted at the Lloyd E. Matheson Centre in Elmsdale
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Tax preparers, Support role (non-tax handler and tax handler positions), greeters, organization coordinators.
Contact
Free Tax Clinics – Canada
Facebook
CITP.Atl.Halifax@cra-arc.gc.ca
1-855-516-4405
Corridor Minor Baseball Association is committed to ensuring baseball is offered to ALL youth in the East Hants Corridor area. Since 2015 the numbers have steadily increased to well over 200 youth every summer. Our success of growing the sport has resulted in increased demands on our volunteer base at all levels; Executive, coaches, Assistant coaches, parent volunteers, tournament chairs etc.
Location/Community
George P. Horne Memorial Fields, Enfield
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We’re always looking for folks to help out during the year at the Executive level and during the summer baseball season, whether it’s coaching, team managers, equipment managers, etc. There’s always lots to do to ensure our program is successful for the youth in our community.
Contact
corridorminorbaseball.ca
Facebook
corridorminorbaseball@gmail.com
The EH Horne School Preservation Society operates the EH Horne School building which is home to a number of tenants including East Hants Childcare Centre, RSI DanceWorks, as well as the Enfield Heritage Centre Association. The Society provides short-and long-term space to local non-profit groups as well as bursaries to students entering post- secondary education. The Society has been operating this building for more than 20 years, providing an important service to the community and maintaining the heritage of the former school.
Location/Community
248 Highway 2, Enfield
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We are recruiting for new Board members, as we have lost several members recently, and specifically, we are currently looking for a volunteer to oversee our leasing contracts, as well as seeking a Chair for the Society.
Contact
Hal Hilton, Vice-Chair
hiltonhald@gmail.com
902-483-2610
We are a group of citizens of East Hants working to prevent crime from occurring in our community. We are partners with the RCMP East Hants and have several subcommittees including Citizens on Patrol, Victim Services, MADD, EH Search and Rescue, MADD ,Seniors Safety and Crimestoppers.
Location/Community
East Hants
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Recruiting volunteers in all areas of our crime prevention association, especially our MADD and Crimestoppers organizations
Contact
Facebook
easthantscrimeprevention@gmail.com
Dolly Mosher, Chair- 902-817-5832
We preserve artifacts and documents relating to the history of East Hants and exhibit them in the Lower Selma Museum to provide opportunities for people to learn more about East Hants communities, how they were settled, how people lived and how they worked.
Location/Community
Museum: Lower Selma; Artifact storage: Elmsdale
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
New members welcome; board positions available
Contact
ehhs.ca
Facebook
info@ehhs.ca
We provide after school activities for youth in the East Hants Corridor, and sponsor activities in partnership with facilities in the area.
Location/Community
Corridor, East Hants
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We need volunteers to fill in roles of fundraising, bake sale items, help with the yearly online auction, afterschool program assistance.
Contact
ehyouthlinks.ca
Facebook | Instagram
ehyouthlinks@gmail.com
The Enfield Heritage Centre was founded by the Enfield Branch of the Women’s Institute of Nova Scotia, and was originally housed in the former United Church in Enfield. After the former church fell into disrepair, the E. H. Horne School Preservation offered a permanent home for the Enfield Heritage Centre in the E. H. Horne School.
The Enfield Heritage Centre has a lovely display of local history, artifacts and photos, in a museum like setting. We also help people in genealogy research, questions on local history, and such.
We are available to host local groups, school groups, family groups, etc., who would like to make arrangements to visit the facility. We maintain a website and Facebook page, which have generated enquires from across Canada and the USA. There has also been visits to our site, and enquires, from Europe.
The Enfield Heritage Centre is very grateful for the continued support of the E H. Horne School Preservation Society, Montgomery Br 133 of the Royal Canadian Legion, the Municipality of East Hants, and dedicated members of the community.
Location/Community
Room 301, E. H. Horne School Building, 248 Hwy 2, Enfield, NS
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers to help with research and genealogy, organizing records, artifacts, photos, etc., as well as helping with our annual Teas in July and December of each year.
Contact
Website: www.enfieldns.com
enfieldheritagecentre@gmail.com
902-883-8033 or 902-883-2632
Facebook
Girl Guides of Canada has volunteer opportunities for you to help create a better world, by girls. You’ll become an influential part of girls’ lives as you share their laughter, help them believe in themselves and watch their confidence grow. Create a space where girls can just be. Volunteer as a Guider today – it’s worth your time.
Location/Community
Elmsdale/Enfield and Mount Uniacke
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Guider (Full time/Part time)
Unit Assistant
Adult member
Contact
Contact information for areas in East Hants:
Enfield/Elmsdale District: diana.whelan@gmail.com
Mount Uniacke Sparks/Embers: Uniackesparksembers@gmail.com
Mount Uniacke Guides/Pathfinders: 3rdcarterguides@gmail.com
Mount Uniacke Rangers: 3rdcarterrangers@gmail.com
Lions is the largest and most active Service Organization with over 1.4 million members worldwide. Milford & District Lions have been active since 1975 and assist those who are in need in the community, assist children with special needs, sponsor the Air Cadet program, support the Canadian Blood Donor Clinics, support the Milford Recreation Association and sponsor the Lions Memorial Park Society. Milford & District Lions meet the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month from Sept to June at lower level of the Milford Recreation Association Building.
Location/Community
Milford & District Lions, 2288 Hwy 2, Milford, NS, B0N 1Y0
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Looking for community minded men and women who give freely of their time and effort to serve as volunteers in the communities in which they live, to provide a better quality of life for those in need. Looking for members for hands on events and those willing to take on projects or suggest ideas for projects in their communities. Milford & District Lions service the communities of Milford, Lantz, Dutch Settlement, Carroll’s Corner, Hardwoodlands, Kennetcook, Noel and Maitland.
Contact
milfordlions@yahoo.ca
902-758-3298
Facebook
A community park that provides recreational, cultural and social opportunities through use of our hall, tennis courts, walking trails, playground, baseball field, soccer field, fenced in ring, skateboard park, pond and gazebo area.
Location/Community
Milford, East Hants
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Community Event volunteers
Contact
milfordrecreation.ca
Facebook | Instagram
info@milfordrecreation.ca or milfordrecreationassociation@gmail.com
The NMRTA has the following purposes for operating:
- For people to experience and enjoy nature
- Encourage active living, physical and mental health
- Encourage environmental stewardship
- Preserve a natural treasure of the community
Location/Community
1143 Enfield Road, Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Corporate sponsorship and donations, public relations, web design, fundraising committee, grant writing and trail work
Contact
Facebook
Vice President
902-223-8339
Rawdon 2 Way 4-H Club is a non-profit organization teaching life skills to the youth of their community.
Location/Community
Upper Rawdon and surrounding areas
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We are looking for community members ages 19 and over that would like to share and teach their own skills and talents to our members. Your volunteer role would support them to complete 4-H Provincial project expectations. Life skill projects include, but not limited to, woodworking, small engines, computer, photography, 1st Aid. Livestock projects include, but not limited to, cavy (guinea pig), rabbit, poultry, sheep, goat, dog obedience. For a complete list please visit our website at 4hnovascotia.ca
Contact
Tonette MacPhee – 902-240-0723
Norma MacDonald – 782-640-4776
rawdon2way@4hnovascotia.ca
Facebook
4hnovascotia.ca
Our vision is to continue to improve and expand the quality, opportunity and accessibility of sport to individuals with an intellectual disability.
Location/Community
Cobequid Region – Truro, Milford, Elmsdale.
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Program facilitators & assistants, for bowling, FUNdamentals, track & field, swimming, floor hockey, curling and bocce.
Contact
speolycobequid.com
Facebook
Email: Edwina Renaux, Regional Coordinator
Our association manages the network of trails that were constructed as part of the Long Lake development in East Uniacke. We value this resource and would like to expand and maintain our trail network as the community grows around it.
Location/Community
Villages of Long Lake, East Uniacke
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We are always looking for people who love and use our trails to help out with routine maintenance. We organize work parties from time to time and will including anyone interested.
Contact
TBMtrails@outlook.com
902-718-7215
The Violet Rose is a program of After Trauma Empowerment Network (ATEN). 100% of thrift shop sales go directly to ATEN. ATEN offers professional, trauma informed mental health therapy and peer support to individuals, families and communities that have experienced trauma. We offer these services in person, online or by phone. We do not charge for any of our mental health related services, including seniors groups or wellness workshops.
Location/Community
2836 Main Street, Highway 2, Shubenacadie
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
We are seeking volunteers that are eager to learn new things in a relaxed but sometimes face paced environment. We encourage you to offer your unique promotional ideas. You must take great pride in being part of a team that provides a clean, well organized and affordable shopping place for all of our customers. We offer a trauma informed working environment, that includes confidentiality. We offer training of the following duties and responsibilities: sorting donations, cash/debit/credit card procedures , cleaning, organizing, pricing gently used goods to be sold. Most importantly, we are looking for people who understand and support our reasons for doing what we do. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age.
Contact
902-758-3967
At Wellness Wags Assistance Dogs, our mission is to enhance the lives of Nova Scotians with disabilities by providing them with highly trained service dogs, free of charge. Our program is dedicated to improving community well-being and fostering inclusivity and accessibility by ensuring that people with disabilities have access to the support they need to lead more independent and fulfilling lives.
Location/Community
Mount Uniacke
Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Puppy Raisers, Occasional Dog Sitting Homes, Volunteer Grant Writers / Fundraising support
Wellness Wags Assistance Dogs is a nonprofit that places service dogs with Nova Scotians with physical disabilities or children with autism. We seek volunteer puppy raisers to care for and socialize puppies in the community for 12-18 months. Wellness Wags provides food, vet care, and a crate. After their time with volunteers, the puppies return to the organization for advanced training to become service dogs. By opening your heart and home, you’ll help shape their success, making a life-changing impact for individuals in need throughout our community.
Contact
902-903-3700
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