Pitcher Purpose helps to match your skills and interests to hundreds of volunteer opportunities across more than 1,500 charities. Pitcher Purpose includes both skilled, hands on volunteering for individuals and teams.

Skilled volunteering puts your skills and talents to work for the benefit of the community. Examples include project management, public relations, administration, event management, legal and governance or even advising on a Board. Hands on volunteering includes roles like tree planting and cooking for the homeless.

Please use the drop down menu or the Search functionality to find your perfect role.

Please apply for leave via payroll, selecting ‘volunteer leave’ from the drop down options and enter the name of the organisation you are volunteering for.

Team volunteering can be organised through the platform.

• Select Volunteer from the top left navigation bar
• View a Charity
• Select Volunteer Select the “Apply as a Team” tab
• Describe to your team why you are wanting to volunteer
• Nominate how big you want the team to be
• Enter details to invite people to the event
• Click “Apply” from the top left

Should a volunteering opportunity incur expenses, please reach out to a member of the Charity Review Committee who will be able to inform you as to whether the expense is eligible to be covered by the firm, and where applicable, can help arrange payment.

All volunteer opportunities are housed on the platform and are sourced from charities registered with GoodCompany.

Should you have a volunteer opportunity for a charity not listed on the platform, please reach out to a member of the Charity Review Committee to be advised on how to best support the initiative.

This will be shown on your Dashboard.

• Select ‘Volunteer’ from the top left hand side of the navigation bar
• Use the filters on the left side panel to filter and ‘find charities’, ‘find key charity partners’, ‘skills required’, ‘location’ etc using the drop down boxes to browse charities by a specific criteria.
• Select an opportunity that appeals to you and click ‘view’
• Click ‘Volunteer’
• Select ‘Apply as an individual’
• Fill in the details on the application page and click ‘apply’
• Your application will be emailed to the charity who will respond to you directly.

You can find their contact details if you go to My Account> Volunteering Application > Click on Role > See contact details for charity

This page also displays volunteering events completed and those you’ve submitted.

Please allow 10 business days for the charity to respond to you. If after this period you have not heard from the charity, please contact support@goodcompany.org.

When you first meet with the charity, be open and honest about your level of commitment (taking into account your professional and personal commitments). If you think that it’s too much of a commitment then you are entitled to withdraw at this stage. However, once you agree to proceed with the project, the charity will be relying on you and it costs them time and money if you pull out of the project.

If you need to withdraw once the project is already underway, ask your colleagues if they are interested in helping out. The most important thing is to communicate with the charity about your situation.

Need to go to My Account> Volunteering Application> Click on Role > and click on Action then Cancel Application

It’s important to communicate with the charity if you think you don’t have the right skills. This may occur when you (and the charity) find out more about the project requirements.

If you don’t have the right skills, you might want to work together with the group to re-scope the project. This is still very helpful. You may also be able to identify a colleague with the right skills and help the group to find a volunteer.

Yes, go to Volunteering Applications and Click on Feedback. Then complete the Feedback form. This data will be shared with the charity and the HR team at Pitcher Partners Sydney to help us measure and improve the program.

GoodCompany encourages all our charities to provide you with feedback at the end of the project. At the conclusion of the project, GoodCompany will also ask you and the charity to complete feedback about your experience. This is your chance to provide us with feedback about the volunteering experience.