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  • Two young volunteers on stepladders, one giving two thumbs up, putting up quilts on a blue wall.

    SCI’s October 2026 e-zine features IVP Australia

    SCI’s October 2026 e-zine reports positive growth at IVP Australia and lists the Goulburn Show 2027 workcamp, with news from the SCI network.

  • Margaret and Bob Fagan smiling at the camera, Bob holding a guitar, with their names in large white letters across the bottom.

    IVP news roundup: October 2026

    A peace concert in Canberra on 1 November, our new website, changes to the Finance Team and the next Raising Peace Salon on 9 November.

  • A group of volunteers and local people, some in traditional sarongs and white headwear, sitting and standing on the steps of a decorated temple courtyard.

    SCI 2025 annual report

    SCI’s Annual Report 2025 is out: 116 volunteer camps, 941 volunteers, and funding for IVP Australia’s Peace Across the Sea project.

  • Volunteers in a show pavilion building a display of watermelons, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, apples and cabbages on hay bales and a wooden crate.

    Goulburn Show workcamp 2027

    Spend 13 days with a team of six international volunteers helping put on the Goulburn Agricultural Show, from 27 February to 11 March 2027. Camp…

  • Masthead of the SCI Asian Newsletter, August/September 2026: the SCI logo and title over an antique world map.

    SCI Asian Newsletter 2026

    News from SCI’s branches and groups across Asia: the three Asian Newsletter issues of 2026, with highlights including Rita Warleigh’s Goulburn Citizen of the Year…

  • A market stall table covered with fresh vegetables, including carrots, silverbeet, rhubarb, beetroot and potatoes, with shoppers behind.

    Goulburn Farmers Market

    Fresh local produce on the fourth Saturday of every month at the Goulburn Showgrounds. How IVP helped start the Goulburn Farmers Market, what you’ll find…

  • A cluster of white native Australian flowers with pink centres, against blurred grass.

    Raising Peace

    Raising Peace is an alliance of more than 30 Australian peace organisations, created in 2020 to celebrate 100 years of SCI. Its story, festivals, podcast,…

  • Banner for the digital workcamp “This is Peace to Me”: a mushroom cloud whose top turns into green tree canopy, with the text “A digital workcamp about the consequences of the wars and the ways we can raise awareness through arts”, the logos of SCI Hellas, Service Civil International and Create Peace, and “Start on 14th of September, Online”.

    Digital workcamp “This is Peace to Me”

    SCI Hellas invited about 15 young people from around the world to “This is Peace to Me”, an online workcamp in September 2026 exploring how…

  • An IVP information stall: an orange and green IVP flag with a dove, hung above a table of leaflets and a laptop, with display boards about workcamps on either side.

    History of IVP

    IVP co-founder Rita Warleigh tells how three volunteers started SCI Australia at a Glebe café in 1988, and how it grew into International Volunteers for…