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Volunteer
By volunteering for Lifeline not only will you be making a difference to the lives of other Australia who use Lifeline services, but you’ll also be enriching your own life.
It takes a lot of dedicated people to provide Lifeline's telephone crisis support services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across Australia. Lifeline relies on over 11,000 Volunteers nation wide to support Lifeline's crisis support line, help raise funds, work in retail outlets, or conduct administrative duties.
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Online Bookstore
Lifeline Canberra earns a major part of its funding by selling hundreds of thousands of donated items at two big Bookfairs and several smaller sales each year. We offer a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, as well as magazines and pamphlets, comic books and atlases, records and CDs, videotapes and DVDs, games and puzzles.
A limited selection of our rarer, more valuable or collectable items is available for purchase from our online bookstore catalogue.
VISIT STORE
At the Autumn and Spring Bookfairs, the main hall in the Budawang Building has most of the sale items (about 200,000 items). Floor plans showing the location of categories in the hall are provided free of charge at the door.
What's for Sale?
- Fiction: over 20 categories including science fiction and fantasy, detective, thriller, romance and paranormal
- Non-fiction: including secondary and tertiary textbooks in the sciences, arts and humanities; sports and hobbies; general interest such as biography
- Australiana: A wide range of books which cover Aborigines, the history of Australia, its politics and government, its landforms and people, including a section for individual biographies.
- Collectables: non-fiction, fiction and literature (classical authors), mostly pre 1950
- Magazines and pamphlets: over 50 categories including craft and cooking and sports
- Children's books: over 25 categories including collectables, annuals, Enid Blyton, fiction, non-fiction and teaching resources
- Foreign language books: including French, German, Japanese and others
- Cooking: including general cookbooks, international cooking, celebrity chefs, special diets and drinks
- Religion: including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism
- Music and Dance: books, sheet music
- Records and CDs: audio-cassettes; talking books
- Videos and DVDs
- Encyclopaedias and sets
- Maps, atlases and picture books
- Games and puzzles
