Get Involved
Interested in volunteering with
The Lending Cupboard?
We have a variety of positions to meet your interests and skill sets, and we provide the training you need so you will have a satisfying volunteer experience.
Front: Do you want to use your people skills? Front line volunteers at The Lending Cupboard receive training to answer client questions and process requests for loans of medical equipment. Your friendly, efficient and compassionate communication skills will help connect people with the medical equipment they need, when they need it.
Back: Want to work behind the scenes? Our back room volunteers receive training to sanitize medical equipment to Provincial health and safety standards. Your work will require bending, kneeling and stretching. And if you’re handy with minor repairs, we can use your skills to keep the equipment functioning smoothly for those who need it.
Time commitment: Volunteers are needed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9:00am to 4:30pm when The Lending Cupboard is open to the public. Morning and afternoon shifts are available. Only have a few hours? Only available part of the year? We still want to hear from you.
BE PART OF OUR TEAM!
At the Lending Cupboard, we supply medical equipment to central Albertans.
Influential community champions to join our capital campaign team
Do you believe that all Central Albertans deserve mobility, independence and dignity? Do you have experience serving on a community capital campaigns? The Lending Cupboard is looking for influential community champions to help us build our capital campaign.
If you can help, or want to know more, contact Executive Director, Dawna Morey – executivedirector@lendingcupboard.ca or 403-356-1678.
Customer Service, Cleaning/Sanitizing & Quality Control, Repair & Maintenance – just to mention a few.
Do you have a few hours a week? Are you interested in making a difference in someone’s life? The Lending Cupboard is inviting you to join our incredible team of volunteers. Are you looking to join a lovely bunch of like-minded people? We have a number of opportunities where we know you can fit in.
You provide your time, we provide the training!
No experience needed, some standing & bending involved, & light lifting. If you enjoy giving back to your community, come join our team, we’d love to meet you.
Interested individuals can contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@lendingcupboard.ca or schedule a meeting to find out more by calling 403-356-1678. We are open Mon/Wed/Fri.
2018 Volunteer Hours
Volunteers make the Lending Cupboard tick, and here’s what the numbers tell us from last year
- 11,000 volunteer hours in 2018
- 70 Registered Volunteers
- 11 Engaged Board Members
Volunteer Testimonials
“I had a client come in the other day who said that she had borrowed a leg lifter, among other items for after her surgery, and that she had found this so useful that she is convinced she recovered faster because of it.
By a simple act of volunteering an hour or two of your time you can make a difference in someone’s life.”
Al Akerstrom
“I love the people here and feel like part of a family.
I met many who were having the same type of operation that I had had, and was able to comfort them and ease their minds as well as give them equipment suggestions as to use.It is wonderful to feel REALLY needed, and to know you make a difference!”
Christine Stork
“I worked at a hospital, I understand the equipment, I am here now 2 years 7 months to help people with medical equipment needs –
Come to the Lending Cupboard and volunteer!”Gerry Campbell
“I have chosen to donate my time to the Lending Cupboard because I feel that it is a good organization. People are nice to work with and I feel good at the end of the day.”
Jim Hunter
“I’ve chosen to donate my time to the Lending Cupboard, it’s a good learning experience and I like helping other people.
Volunteering here made me realize I was making a difference when just sitting with the elders and listening to them. After hearing them talk about their problems I just want to get up and hug them, or cry with them.
My advice to others – Come and try it out, it’s a good experience and you will meet lots of new people”Kim Jeske
“After retirement I needed to fill my times and felt that volunteering for something that interested me would be to my advantage and to the advantage of the charity.
I have chosen to donate my time to the Lending Cupboard after I had tried a couple of other places and the friendliness and openness of the Lending Cupboard is the most appealing.
I have realized I was making a difference when a gentleman was returning some equipment and was telling me how it had helped his wife so much while she was ill, he began to cry as she had just passed away. It was very touching.My advice to new volunteers:
Make sure the position is definitely something you are interested in and that you can feel you are making a difference!”Sandra Ballum
“… I want to give back to the community.
Donating my time to the Lending Cupboard is such a great cause!
It is a great experience I had while volunteering which made me realize I was making a difference in helping someone that is in need;My advice to someone who is on the fence about volunteering –
Come to the Lending Cupboard and volunteer!!”Vi Bennett