Our volunteer team are the heartbeat of our dementia cafes and play an integral  role in supporting our dementia cafe members. 

We priorities positive team cultures within all our volunteer teams. Our volunteer training has a strong emphasis on empathetic (not sympathetic) communication styles, dementia-friendly environments and having a continuous improvement mindset. 

Each of our cafes have a maximum of 10 and a minimum of 5 volunteers for each cafe meeting. This ensures we maintain our commitment to have a 1:2 ratio of volunteers per people living with dementia for every cafe. 

We are also very proud to say our volunteer team also great friends and often hang out socially between cafes.  

All our volunteers; 

• have a Working With Children’s Check,
• enjoy 10 hours of induction training (in the first year),
• opportunity to visit other cafes,
• access to a Dementia Training Australia training portal, and
• lots of team bonding, fun social activities throughout the year!