Volunteer groups in Cape Town

18 volunteer groups you can join in Cape Town. Updated .

Illustration: Open grocery bags, plain grain packets and blank tins on a packing table.Active

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Trash Bash

  • Next
  • English
Illustration: Donated coats sorted on a rolling rail above red collection bins.Active

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Rotary Club of Wynberg

  • Every Thursday
  • Last
  • English
  • Rondebosch, Cape Town
Illustration: A young adult returns a garden trowel to a tool library volunteer.

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Surfpop Volunteer Team

  • Every week
  • Last
  • English
  • Cape Town
Illustration: Young volunteers prepare equipment beside a small community stage.

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Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Cape Town Volunteer Community

  • First Thursday of the month
  • English, Afrikaans and one more language
Illustration: Plain leads, washable harnesses and a water bowl on a storage bench.

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Care Cruisers

  • Every Tuesday
  • English
  • Cape Town CBD
Illustration: Litter tongs, a mesh sack and a sorting tray on a shoreline ledge.

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Clean C Cape Town Cleanup Team

  • Once a month
  • English
  • Cape Town
Illustration: Young adult volunteers sort collected litter after a beach cleanup.

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Greenpop Cape Town Volunteer Community

  • Every week
  • English
Illustration: Folded collection sacks, a sorting bin and tongs on an outdoor workbench.

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PE-Pledge Peoples Projects Volunteer Team

  • Every week
  • English
  • Cape Town
Illustration: A cleanup cart parked beside a pedestrian footbridge.

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RCGEN Foundation

  • Every week
  • English
  • Vrygrond
Illustration: A cable reel and tool case prepared beneath an empty community stage.

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RPJ Helping Hands

  • Every other Sunday
  • Weekend
  • Cape Town
Illustration: Work gloves, a litter picker and a collection sack beside a park path.

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Tin Can Town Volunteer Team

  • Once a month, on Sunday
  • Weekend
  • English
  • Blikkiesdorp
Illustration: A blank corkboard, paper squares and wooden pushpins on a community table.

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Common Cause Team — Friends of Rondebosch Common

  • No schedule listed
  • English
  • Rondebosch Common
Illustration: A galvanized watering can and terracotta pots beside shared vegetable beds.

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GROW Urban Food Garden Volunteer Community

  • No schedule listed
  • English
Illustration: Pet-care donations arranged on the blue floor of a clean utility room.

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Mission for Inner City Volunteers

  • No schedule listed
  • English
  • Cape Town inner city
Illustration: Fresh garden herbs on a mesh tray beside a rinse basin and snips.

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Oranjezicht City Farm Volunteer Team

  • No schedule listed
  • English
Illustration: Brooms and collection sacks beside a freshly swept courtyard.

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TreeKeepers Cape Town

  • No schedule listed
  • English
  • Paid
  • Newlands Forest
Illustration: A paint tray and brush beside freshly painted blue community-hall skirting.

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CUDO Ocean View Feeding Scheme Volunteer Team

  • Several times a week
  • English
  • Ocean View
Illustration: Leafy vegetables and a few ripe tomatoes occupy two blue harvest crates on a concrete community-garden loading ramp, seen overhead without kitchen props.

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SEED Volunteer Garden Team

  • No schedule listed
  • Mitchells Plain

At a glance

  • Of the 18 volunteer groups in Cape Town, 2 met recently or have a meeting coming up, 14 are listed with no meeting date seen and 2 cannot be checked automatically.
  • 5 of the 18 give a regular day. Thursday and Sunday are the most common meeting days (2 volunteer groups each).
  • 7 of the 11 that say how often they meet do so every week or more often; 7 do not say how often.
  • 16 of the 18 name a language: English (16) and Afrikaans (1).
  • Of the 18, 1 says it is paid; 17 do not say.
Meeting days of the 5 that give one
  1. Monday: 0
  2. Tuesday: 1
  3. Wednesday: 0
  4. Thursday: 2
  5. Friday: 0
  6. Saturday: 0
  7. Sunday: 2
Languages named by the 16 that name one
  • English16
  • Afrikaans1

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