At fws, we are often asked by potential volunteers if we have any odd jobs that they can help out with on a one-off basis.

Here they are. If you've the skills, interest and ability to commit to one, please email Rebecka.Delforce@foodwatershelter.org.au, who will give you a brief, deadline and put your name next to your chosen odd job on the list below.

Naturally, we'd hope that any odd job you put your hand up for, you completed (sometimes it's harder to transfer a half-completed task to somebody new, than to simply have them start from scratch).

Odd Job: Design fws'  2009 calendar
Time cost: Several days
Deadline: September 2008
Volunteer responsible: Marcus McNally

Odd Job: Research Australian companies making eco-friendly plates, bowls and glasses from bamboo (to help Kit Out Kesho Leo's children's village)
Time cost: Several days
Deadline: September 2008
Volunteer responsible: Kate McNally - done! No go, so if you've other ideas, please email rebecka.delforce@foodwatershelter.org.au

Odd Job: Format fws' draft communications style guide
Time cost: A few hours
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer Responsible: You?

Odd Job: Use your IT skills to help compile a digital photo library for fws
Time cost: Several weeks
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer Responsible: You? This job is on hold for the minute while fws tries to retrieve photos from an uncooperative hard drive...

Odd Job: Research information for fws to add to its 2009 calendar
Time cost: Several days
Deadline: August 2008
Volunteer responsible: Karen Champlin

Odd Job: Write a draft Policy & Procedures manual for fws Australia
Time cost: Several weeks if writing from scratch, several days if using the templates fws have sourced
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer Responsible: Tony

Odd Job: Compile job descriptions for the volunteers working in Australia for fws
Time cost: Several weeks
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer Responsible: Michelle Morrison

Odd Job: Compile a list of sustainable-living expos around Australia, detailing their dates, the organisers' contact details and submission requirements for fws to exhibit in each expo
Time cost: Several days
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer Responsible: Kim Demarco

Odd Job: Locate an eco-friendly printer
(an organisation that uses recycled paper and vegetable ink) willing to print fws business cards & the fws 2009 calendar
Time cost: Several hours
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer responsible: Alison Vaughan and Kate McNally

Odd Job: Locate a fabulous celebrity ambassador for fws
We are after a celebrity we dig (someone who is socially and environmentally conscious), who will fly to Tanzania in December 2008 to open Kesho Leo children's village
Time cost: Several weeks
Deadline: December 2008
Volunteer responsible: Katie Isaac, Rowena Fitzgerald