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Community Service Form 2024-2025 (Required)
You can now see your logged community service in ASPEN. Just go to “My Info” and click on the Community Service tab.
Graduation requirement: A total of 40 hours of community service must be completed by the end of your senior year.
COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES:
Date(s): Saturday, June 28th 7:00 am - 12 noon
Category: serving breakfast, face painting, pony rides, Boat Taxi monitor, food runner, table clean up, and more
Contact: Ron Parker, ron@parker5.net
Organization: Manchester-Essex Rotary Club
The Manchester-Essex Rotary Club is looking for volunteers for this year's Annual Red, White & Blue Breakfast. Pick a 3-hour shift (7-10 am or 9am - 12 noon) or come and help for the full morning. Assist with one or more of the following: serving breakfast, face painting, pony rides, Boat Taxi monitor, food runner, table clean up, and more. Students interested in volunteering please email Ron Parker at ron@parker5.net.
Date(s): First Week of School September 2025
Category: cleaning out books and trash to convert a storage room in the MERHS Learning Commons into a functional space
Contact: MERHS Junior Emma Hickey, hickeye@meapps.org
Organization: MERHS Student Group Civic Action Project
Student volunteers are needed to help a group of MERHS students with their civic action project of cleaning out tons of books and trash from a storage room in the MERHS Learning Commons so it can be made into a functional space. The project will start the first week of school in September. Students interested in volunteering please email Emma Hickey at hickeye@meapps.org to sign up.
Date(s): Summertime
Category: Museum volunteersContact: Matthew Swindell, 978-526-7230, director@mbtsmuseum.org, 10 Union Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944, www.mbtsmuseum.org
Organization: Manchester-by-the-Sea Museum
Help support Manchester-by-the-Sea’s museum. Looking for passionate people interested in history, with various roles available in education, archives and visitor engagement. Come to the Museum for an introductory tour and meeting.Date(s): Saturday, July 19th
Category: moving boxes of books, setting up tables, etc.
Contact: Cheryl Shnider, Secretary, Friends of the Manchester Library, FOML@manchesterpl.org
Organization: Friends of the Manchester Library
The Friends of the Manchester Library group is looking for help with their book donation on Saturday, July 19. The book drive will take place in the MERHS parking lot, and the work will involve moving boxes of books, setting up tables, etc. Please use the Signup Genius link below and fill in any of the slots saying "volunteers."
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080544A4A9283-56402721-foml#/
Date(s): Summertime
Category: help participants ride, care for the horses, do nature-based activities, read and write horse-related stories, do arts and crafts, etc.
Contact: Caron King, Volunteer Manager, volunteer@windrushfarm.org, 978-682-7855, 479 Lacy Street, North Andover, MA 01845, windrushfarm.org
Organization: Windrush Farm
Windrush Farm in North Andover is the leading therapeutic riding center on the North Shore and runs two programs in the summer for which volunteers are needed. Giddy Up and Grow is primarily for disadvantaged youth and Pony Pals is mostly for recreational riders. If you love horses and are interested in helping children of all abilities, please email volunteer@windrushfarm.org to sign up and become a volunteer and part of our caring and positive community. Volunteers need to be at least 14 years old and have experience with horses. Windrush Farm Flyer 2025
Date(s): Springtime (now)
Category: assemble, paint, deliver, and mount a birdhouse for an elder community member
Contact: Jeanne Westcott, Director of Youth and Children’s Ministries, First Parish Church, Jeanne.fpchurch@gmail.com
Organization: First Parish Church, 10 Central Street, Manchester
The First Parish Church has launched the Birdhouse Project for Spring and can offer 8 community service hours. Just grab a kit, build a house, contact the recipient (an elder member of the community), paint the birdhouse, deliver, and mount. Important note: The Manchester Essex Regional School District requires student volunteers to be accompanied by a parent or trusted adult family member when delivering and installing a birdhouse at the home of a senior. There can be no exceptions.
Date(s): ongoing
Category: daily gallery help, assist with children’s programs, assist with public events
Contact: Margaurita Spear, Museum Educator, margaurita.spear@wenhammuseum.org
Organization: Wenham Museum
The Wenham Museum is seeking high school student volunteers to help reset the play interactives in their galleries to keep them ready for children and families visiting the next day, assist with children’s programs on Wednesday afternoons, and assist at their special public programs for elementary school children. For more details, please visit the museum website at Wenham Museum Volunteer Opportunities for Students. If interested in volunteering, please email Museum Educator, Maugaurita Spear at margaurita.spear@wenhammuseum.org.
Date(s): Ongoing: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoons from 2:00-5:00 pm
Category: data entry/computer and paper data collection/office help
Contact: Wendy Hansbury, Health Director / hansburyw@manchester.ma.us / 978 526 7385
Organization: Board of Health Department, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Seeking responsible, detail-oriented student volunteers to help with office work (accuracy is extremely important). Data entry in Excel is the first and biggest need, with the potential to work in Outlook, create forms, or other projects. A 9-hour minimum per volunteer is requested, but the department would be happy to have multiple volunteers helping for as many hours as possible. Please contact Wendy Hansbury to set up an informal interview to make sure you are the best fit. Students who have an interview will automatically receive one hour of community service regardless of whether they proceed as a volunteer.Date(s): 2nd Tuesday of the month 5:30-6:30pm (Next meeting is Tuesday, June 8, 2025)
Category: Teen Advisory Board (TAB)
Contact. Tom Russo, Young Adult Librarian, 978-526-7711, trusso@manchesterpl.org
Organization: Manchester Public Library
Join the Manchester Public Library's Teen Advisory Board (TAB)! Members of TAB help brainstorm and promote programs the library puts on. They give input on book ordering, play a big role in running the Haunted Library event for Halloween, and will now help stage the library’s annual escape room program which was new last summer.
Date(s): Ongoing
Category: library, children’s books, organization, assorted projects
Contact: Tom Russo, Young Adult Librarian / trusso@manchesterpl.org / 978-526-7711
Organization: Manchester Public Library
Seeking student volunteers to assist with keeping the children's book collection organized and to help with other projects. This is an ongoing/major need.Date(s): various dates for upcoming events
Category: Annual Community Events
Contact: Heather DePriest, Program Director / depriesth@manchester.ma.us
Organization: Manchester Parks and Recreation
Looking for volunteers to assist with annual community events. Email Heather DePriest to set up an informal interview to make sure you are the best fit. Manchester Parks and Recreation Flyer.pdf
Date(s): Ongoing/year-round
Category: library, general volunteer tasks
Contact: Carla Christiensen, Library Director
Organization: T.O.H.P. Burnham Public Library, Essex MA
Seeking helpers for ongoing community service tasks. Always happy to have students join the team as teen volunteers. Please use this link to complete the Teen Volunteer Form and the Library Director will be in touch with you.Date(s): Ongoing / year-round
Category: land conservation, event assistance, guides / other
Contact: Volunteer@TheTrustees.org
Organization: The Trustees of Reservations (MA)
Volunteerism has been a cornerstone of The Trustees since 1891 in conserving land for all people to enjoy. As a volunteer, you’ll have opportunities to explain to visitors who we are and what we do while participating in various projects and events. Contact Volunteer@TheTrustees.org if you have questions.
Register to be a volunteer here: VOLUNTEER
Calendar of volunteer opportunities here: CALENDARDate(s): Ongoing / year-round
Category: Counselor-in-Training for children/childcare
Contact: Kathy Wilson / kwilson@pw4c.org / 978-515-5395
Organization: Pathways for Children, Gloucester MA
Looking for student volunteers grades 10-12 (16+ years of age) to be CITs supporting the after-school program, working with children between ages 5-12. Completion of volunteer application and passing of background check required. Days can vary based on your availability; hours anytime between 2:30-5:30 pm. Pathways for Children CIT Flyer and Info Sheet.pdfDate(s): Ongoing, Monday – Thursday afternoons starting at 2:00 pm
Category: administrative/office help
Contact: Deborah Cunningham, Administrative Clerk / conservation@essexma.org / 978 768 2509
Organization: Essex Conservation Commission, Essex MA
Looking for students to help in the office. No matter how many hours you need, there is always something that needs to be done!Date(s): Ongoing / year-round
Category: soup kitchen
Contact: https://mybrotherstable.org/get-involved / 781-595-3224
Organization: My Brother’s Table (99 Willow Street, Lynn MA)
My Brother’s Table, the largest soup kitchen on the North Shore, is always in need of volunteers. Please consider volunteering whenever you can.Date(s): 2nd Thursday of every month from 6:30 pm-8:00 pm
Category: serving meals, table cleanup, veterans, elderly
Contact: Sylvia Kirker / sylvia.kirker@verizon.net
Allen M. Kirker, Commander / amkirker@gmail.com / 978-380-0029
Organization: Manchester American Legion
Seeking MERHS student volunteers to help at monthly dinners (Thursdays) serving and clearing tables from 6:30-8:00 pm. Students are welcome to volunteer when available and don’t have to sign up every dinner. Email the Kirkers in advance to let them know you’re coming.
