Volunteers Wanted!
The Fellowship of Australian Writers WA is a grass-roots membership organisation,
and has been from its inception in 1938! 
Volunteering is a way for our members to become more actively involved with the literary community of Western Australia, to make connections and raise their own profile.
However you do not have to be a member to volunteer at FAWWA!
We welcome anyone with an interest in what we do, including:
- university students on voluntary placement
- local residents from Swanbourne and surrounds (especially those who are keen gardeners!)
- tradespeople and handy-persons willing to give us their time and/or advice to assist with the restoration of Mattie Furphy House
- artists, craftspeople, musicians, and other creative souls wanting to help us flesh out our dream of a leading-edge "centre for creativity in all of life"
- business people and marketing professionals able to help us raise our profile in the wider community and/or help set up sponsorship opportunities...
Whatever your passion, our existing team of volunteers would love to
hear from you and have the opportunity to explore the contribution you
could make to realising our vision for FAWWA:
to engage Western Australian writers in creative dialogue and to promote
the contribution that writers and writing can make to a positive sustainable
future, both locally and globally.
What volunteers can do at FAWWA
We rely on volunteers for all of our management and much of our practical operations including:
- helping to keep our office functioning efficiently, including data entry, helping with the monthly mailout of our newsletter, answering telephone enquiries, photocopying and filing
- newsletter production, website maintenance, media liaison and other publicity activities,
- planning and coordination of our program of workshops and events,
- financial planning, fundraising and grant writing,
- restoration and maintenance of our heritage buildings, and caring for our library collection, archives and other heritage items that have been vested in the FAWWA
Because we know that even our most dedicated volunteers have rich and busy lives with other family and/or work commitments to juggle, we have adopted a team approach to volunteering at FAWWA. Working together with two or three others in one of the key operational areas identified above, our shared goal is to further the purposes of the Fellowship in a way that is productive, enjoyable and personally sustainable.
Some volunteer roles, such as management committee positions, involve a year-long commitment. Other volunteers are engaged in shorter projects, or have indicated a willingness to be approached for discrete tasks as and when they arise.
You do not necessarily have to live within easy reach of Tom Collins House to get involved.
If you have access to email/internet, you can still make a contribution through tasks such as updating information on our website, writing material for our monthly newsletter, laying out publicity brochures, promoting the FAWWA at events in your local area, or helping organise regional or student branch.
