The ideal volunteers for Wollongong City SES are enthusiastic, dependable people. Whatever your fitness level, background, skills, or training, you can contribute to the unit in many ways. In addition to going on callouts, members are involved in radio communications, training, administration, public relations, fundraising, welfare, vehicle maintenance, research, and social activities.

When you're part of Wollongong City SES, you play a vital role in creating a safer community. The people and businesses of the Wollongong area rely on us to help them prepare for, cope with, and recover from disasters. When you contribute your time and talents, you make everyone stronger.

Wollongong City SES offers you a unique opportunity to increase your own skills and experience, with top-quality training in rescue, bushcraft, storm-damage repair, first aid, and a wide variety of other areas. Our training includes outdoor adventures like bushwalking, caving and canyoning, and abseiling, as well as rescue competitions. Each individual chooses the pace and intensity of his or her own training, and safety is always the primary concern.

Our callouts, weekly training nights, exercises, and social activities offer plenty of opportunities to meet new people and become part of a team.

Wollongong City is one of the state's finest SES units, receiving numerous awards and expressions of support from the community. We're growing steadily — we've increased our membership by over 50 percent in just one year. We consistently place among the top finishers in rescue and wilderness-navigation competitions, and we are leaders in providing comprehensive, wide-ranging, and quality training and experience to our members. And we're committed to bringing the very finest, most professional emergency service to the Wollongong area.

You can be a part of these exciting activities and help us rise to the challenges of the times ahead.

Are you willing to commit yourself to one training night per week, three or four days each year for unit commitments such as staffing public events and fundraising, and being on call one week per month? If so, call us at 02 4227 1200 or email us at info@wollongong.city.ses.nsw.gov.au to make an appointment to join.