Volunteers

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

Founded in 1918, the CNIB Foundation is a non-profit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today. We deliver innovative programs and powerful advocacy that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion.

Location/Community
East Hants and HRM

Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Vision Mate: Help a person with sight loss in your community one-on-one with things like reading, organizing, going for walks, or running errands on a weekly basis (2 hours per week).
Tech Mate: Provide tech support to people with sight loss in your community (As needed).
Driver: Drive staff with sight loss across the province (As needed).
Puppy Raiser: Raise a guide dog puppy for the first 12 – 15 months of its life and provide basic training.
Weekly Caller: Call a list of people on a weekly basis to share upcoming events with them and record their RSVPs (1 hour per week).
Virtual Event Assistants: Logon 15 minutes before the virtual event starts to help call people in on their phone if they don’t use a computer.

Contact Information
Website
Email
902-403-8487
Facebook

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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
902-701-0273
hightidescentre.ca
CHArt Facebook
High Tides Arts & Community Centre Facebook
Maitland Launch Festival Facebook

The Come Home East Hants Association is the organizer of Tide Fest. Tide Fest is an annual festival (July 11-13, 2025 this year!) and has many components, like washer toss, vendor market, family fun fair, crib tournament, breakfast, youth dance, 50/50 tickets to support the food bank, two nights of music, registration, food trucks, parking and more!

Location/Community
East Hants Sportsplex, Lantz

Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
There are many opportunities to volunteer with us! Some jobs are couple of hours – on Friday doing setup or Sunday doing clean up, 7-12 pm bartenders and bar-backs to run the bar during the music, selling 50/50 tickets, selling drink tickets, parking assistants, etc. Some jobs are bigger – organizing washer toss and being there on Saturday to coordinate the event or managing the parking and holding of space in the parking lot for Saturday vendor market and family fun fair. There’s a job for everyone that can volunteer and we have fun doing this event. Reach out and let us know what time you can volunteer!

Contact
[email protected]
tidefest.ca
Tide Fest on Facebook
Tide Fest on Instagram

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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]

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
[email protected]
902-483-2610

We engage communities to gather ideas and share information on how to improve health and wellness where people live, work, play, and learn in East Hants.

Location/Community
East Hants

Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Board members – 1 meeting per month September through June

Contact
Becky McManus-Cyna
[email protected]
Facebook

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
[email protected]
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
[email protected]

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
[email protected]

The Enfield, Elmsdale and District Lions Club have supported the community for over 50 years. They maintain a recreational property which includes the Lions Hall, baseball field, rugby/soccer field, beach volleyball courts, walking trails, pickleball courts, playground, fish pond and memorial walk.

Location/Community
162 Old Enfield Rd, Enfield

Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Looking to build our membership to help support our current community activities and add new initiatives along with maintaining our community-focused recreational property.

Contact
[email protected]

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 features a display of local history, artifacts, and photos, and offers genealogy and local history research assistance.

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
[email protected]
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

Website
[email protected]

Contact information for areas in East Hants:

Enfield/Elmsdale District: [email protected]
Mount Uniacke Sparks/Embers: [email protected]
Mount Uniacke Guides/Pathfinders: [email protected]
Mount Uniacke Rangers: [email protected]

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
[email protected]
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
[email protected] or  [email protected]

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
Email
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
[email protected]
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
Email: Edwina Renaux, Regional Coordinator

We run programs year round encouraging kids to get outdoors and disconnect from their modern day electronics.

Location/Community
Elmsdale, East Hants

Specific Vacancies/Volunteer Opportunities
Counselors, program instructors

Contact
Katie Hines
[email protected]
902-997-1835
Facebook

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
[email protected]
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
Website
[email protected]
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.

Volunteer Application Form

Contact
wellnesswags.ca
[email protected]
902-903-3700
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