Peter
Heyworth
Peter
Heyworth is the Coordinator of Volunteer Services
with The Royal Society for the Blind SA, Inc. An organisation
providing a range of services to about 9500 blind
and vision impaired people in South Australia .
Peter
is currently President of the Australasian
Association of Volunteer Administrators
(AAVA), the first professional association for volunteer
program managers in the Australasian region. Within
this organisation he is involved in developing an
accreditation program for volunteer program managers.
He
is also an active participant in, and chairs a working
party, within the Volunteer Ministerial Advisory Group,
providing advice to the South Australian Government
on issues relating to volunteering.
He
was one of the first South Australian graduates in
the Diploma of Volunteer Management and is a member
of several Course Advisory Panels looking at the development
of qualifications in volunteering and volunteer program
management at both a State and National level.
Previously
Peter was in Baptist Ministry, and before that a High
School Science teacher and geologist in New South
Wales .
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